A musician of considerable versatility, Ronald Caravan is a performer of equal accomplishment on both clarinet and saxophone, the single-reed woodwinds. He has also gained wide recognition as an author, a composer, an arranger, and a teacher as well as for the line of professional-grade clarinet and saxophone mouthpieces that carry his name. For most of his musical career he served as a member of the faculty of Syracuse University (1980-2015) where he taught both clarinet and saxophone applied music and directed the Syracuse University Saxophone Ensemble. In addition to his many solo and chamber-music performances, he has performed with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and Symphoria on both clarinet and saxophone as well as with the Society for New Music. In early 2017 his landmark CD series "Single Reed Expressions" (Mark Records 2016) was released worldwide by Naxos, a series of 8 separate CDs each about evenly split between clarinet and saxophone literature. Dr. Caravan earned the Performer's Certificate on clarinet from the Eastman School of Music as well as the Doctor of Music Arts in Music Education and Master of Arts in Music Theory. His principal teachers were William Willett, Stanley Hasty, and Sigurd Rascher.