Associate Professor of Clarinet at Florida State University. She has performed with orchestras throughout the United States, including the Arizona Opera (most notably in a production of the Ring Cycle), the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, and the Arkansas Symphony. Currently, she performs with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. She has been featured as a recitalist, clinician, and chamber musician at several festivals and conventions including performances at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall; the Shanghai Conservatory in Shanghai, China; the Festival Internacional de Inverno in Vale Vêneto, Brazil; and at the Musikschule Bregenz, in Bregenz, Austria. Dr. Bish is very active in the commission, research, and performance of new works. Her current projects include a recording of the works of Gregory Wanamaker, including two pieces written for her by Wanamaker titled Clarikinetics and Sonata, and a biography of clarinetist and composer William O. Smith.
