Andrew O’Donnell currently serves as Principal Clarinet of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and holds degrees from the Juilliard School and The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he was awarded the Presser Foundation Graduate Music Award. His teachers include Alexander Fiterstein, Jon Manasse, Joaquin Valdepeñas, and Richie Hawley. Andrew has performed with the San Antonio and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras, and has worked with notable conductors including Alan Gilbert, Gianandrea Noseda, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

For five consecutive summers he has been a Clarinet Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he won the Concerto Competition in 2019. Andrew was the only American clarinetist invited to compete in the third edition of the Jacques Lancelot International Clarinet Competition in Yokosuka, Japan.

A supporter of new music, he collaborates regularly with living composers, has commissioned new works, and has performed with the AXIOM ensemble in New York and Musiqa in Houston.