Denise A. Gainey is a Backun Artist/Clinician and an Educational Recording Artist for Carl Fischer Music, serves as the Alabama State Chair for the International Clarinet Association, and was recently elected Secretary of the ICA. Gainey is an active clinician and performer throughout the Southeast. Gainey has compiled and edited a collection of clarinet solos, Solos for Clarinet, published by Carl Fischer in 2001, and is currently writing a book on master teacher Kalmen Opperman. Gainey’s major teachers include Kalmen Opperman, James Gillespie, Frank Kowalsky, and Fred Ormand.