Niles Loughlin is a multi-instrumentalist and private instructor based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hailing from Dunedin, Florida, he received his Bachelor of Arts degrees in Music and International Studies from the University of South Florida – Tampa in 2017 and completed his Master of Music in Clarinet Performance at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro in 2019. An avid performer of solo instrumental and chamber music, he avails programming eclectic, meditative, and propulsive compositions. Beyond the Common Practice Classical purview, he has cross-trained in Jazz and Irish Traditional Folk performance. He is animated by a drive to fuse these performance traditions, alongside other sources of inspiration like Klezmer and Math Rock, into his own compositions and improvisations. He is also keen on exploring the capacity of philosophical and political dialectics in musical performance. He was CFO and interim Artistic Director of the clarinet ensemble Splinter Tongue, and has extensive experience performing in wind ensemble, orchestral, and otherwise theatrical settings. He enjoys regularly gigging as a freelancer around his day work as a bartender. When he is not busy noodling around in his practice sessions, he takes pride in providing clarinet and saxophone instruction to students through his private studio, practicing his mixology, collecting various reed instruments to learn and include in his performing arsenal, and tending to his houseplants and guinea pigs.