Mr. Wastler is currently an instrumental music teacher in the School District of Philadelphia. He
received his Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Miami, Florida and attended the
Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Gettysburg College and Temple University. His primary clarinet
teachers were Anthony Gigliotti of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ignatius Gennusa of the NBC,
National, Chicago and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras. Mr. Wastler is a former member of the United
States Air Force Band, Washington, DC under the baton of Colonel Arnold D. Gabriel and the Florida
Symphony Orchestra, Miami. He plays professionally as a freelance woodwind artist in the
Philadelphia and Virginia-Washington area and also teaches privately.
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