Jana Starling is an Associate Professor in the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University and a Buffet-Crampon and Gonzalez Reed artist. She is an internationally recognized clarinetist and founder of ClarinetCanada, an organization to connect, support and highlight clarinetists nationally.  She is also the co-founder of Lift Clarinet Academy, performed Eb clarinet in Ironwood Trio (Eb/Bb/bass clarinet trio) and Bb clarinet in LightBreak (a multimedia clarinet duo). Starling has 2 solo CD's, Inflexion, Mythos and a duo CD, Mythos, consisting of premiere recordings, and hailed as “a wonderful player…musically sensitive …you will not be disappointed!” (The Clarinet journal).