Andrew Stevens Andy Stevens started the clarinet at age seven with his father Jack Stevens, long time Denver Public Schools music teacher and Director of the Denver Youth Musicians. He later studied with Richard Joiner, former principal clarinet with the Denver Symphony and Donald Ambler former bass clarinetist of the Denver/Colorado Symphony. As a junior in high school, he won the International Clarinet Competition after being named runner up the previous year in the same competition. After high school he pursued his Bachelor of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of renowned clarinetist and pedagogue D. Stanley Hasty. He also studied the bass clarinet with William Osseck.