Carrie Koffman joined the faculty of The Hartt School at the University of Hartford in the fall of 2003. Prior to this, she held positions as Assistant Professor of Saxophone at Penn State University, Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the University of New Mexico, and taught at Boston University.
Recent performances have included the World Saxophone Congress in Bangkok, Thailand; the Faenza International Saxophone Festival in Italy; a tour throughout New Zealand; the Xi'an International Clarinet and Saxophone Festival in China; the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Michigan; the Virginia Arts Festival; the International Viola Congress; the World Saxophone Congress in Minnesota; the North American Saxophone Alliance National Conventions; and the International Double Reed Convention in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Koffman has been a featured soloist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Centre Chamber Orchestra, the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hartt Wind Ensemble, the PSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the UNM Wind Symphony, and the Greater Hartford Youth Wind Ensemble while touring Germany and Austria. Among her ensemble performing credits are appearances with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut, Sequitur in New York City, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra, and the Santa Fe Symphony.
She is a member of the contemporary chamber music duo, "The Irrelevants," with violist Tim Deighton. Additionally, she appears frequently as a soloist, chamber musician, and clinician. Commissions and premieres include compositions by Lawrence Blind, Michael Colgrass, Halim El-Dabh, Stephen Michael Gryc, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Mauldin, Gunther Schuller, Christopher Schultis, James Sellars, Augusta Read Thomas, and William Wood, in addition to several works commissioned by “The Irrelevants.”
Koffman's saxophone students have won numerous competitions. She also formerly taught saxophone for the All-State Program at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and was the Director of Bands at Belleville South Middle School in Belleville, Michigan. Koffman is a graduate with high honors from the University of Michigan where she studied with Donald Sinta, and the University of North Texas where she studied with James Riggs and Eric Nestler.
Koffman is also a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher and teaches Yoga for Musicians at The Hartt School.
