Album Notes

Principal Clarinetist MICHELE ZUKOVSKY has appeared frequently as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and at the Music Center, and has been a guest soloist with orchestras worldwide. Zukovsky performs regularly at the Philharmonic's Chamber Music Society concerts and has participated in a number of premieres as soloist with the Philharmonic New Music Group. In 1991, she gave the world premiere of John Williams' Clarinet Concerto with the Boston Pops.

Michele Zukovsky collaborates regularly with chamber ensembles worldwide, most notably the Angeles and St. Petersburg String Quartets. She has appeared in New York with Concerts at the Y, Ravinia, Lincoln Center, and "Mostly Mozart" ensembles and has toured extensively as a chamber musician and soloist. Zukovsky is active as a teacher of master classes throughout the world, and she is currently on the faculty at the University of Southern California. She studied clarinet with her father, Kalman Bloch, a former principal with the Philharmonic.

Zukovsky has recorded chamber music and solo repertory for the London/Decca, Avant, Nonesuch, Philips, and Summit labels. Her most recent recordings feature the music of Martinu, part of a projected series of recordings to encompass the composer's complete music featuring the clarinet.

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