Sandra Moats McPherson is in wide demand as a clarinetist and educator. She is the professor of clarinet at Sacramento State’s School of Music and Cosumnes River College and performs frequently as clarinetist and bass clarinetist in numerous Northern California orchestras, including the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, and Choral Society orchestras. Her renowned trio TriMusica (along with cellist Susan Lamb Cook and pianist John Cozza) has been featured at numerous chamber music series, including the Sacramento State University Festival of New American Music, the UC Davis Shinkoskey Noon Concert Series, the Music at Noon Concert Series at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Sacramento, and the Great Composers Series at the Harris Center in Folsom and has premiered several works commissioned by local composers including Stephen Blumberg, Jeffrey Hoover, and Durwynne Hsieh. She has performed orchestral and chamber music in Eisenstadt and Vienna, Austria as part of the annual Classical Music Festival, and has been on the coaching and performing staff of the InterHarmony Festival in Arcidosso, Italy. Ms. McPherson acts as chamber music coach for the Sacramento, Cal Cap, and Sacramento Youth Symphony Chamber Music Workshops, and maintains an active private teaching studio. Ms. McPherson received degrees from California State University, Fresno and University of California, Santa Barbara in music education, clarinet performance, and musicology, and has published articles on early-American clarinet literature.