Michele Zukovsky

Michele Zukovsky

Michele Zukovsky is an American clarinetist.

Zukovsky is the principal clarinetist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She has performed with the Boston Pops, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, the Lincoln Center Chamber Players, and at the Mostly Mozart Festival.[1] She has taught at the California Institute of the Arts. She currently teaches clarinet at the University of Southern California.[1] She premiered John Williams' Clarinet Concerto with the Boston Pops in 1991.[2]

Family

She played along side and later succeeded her father, Kalman Bloch, as the principal clarinetist of the L.A. Philharmonic. She is related through her mother Frances to famed violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Her deceased brother Greg Bloch played violin and mandolin for the Italian rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), the American progressive-rock bands String Cheese and It's a Beautiful Day, and with G.E. Smith and the Saturday Night Live Orchestra in 1978.

References

  1. ^ a b "Michele Zukovsky". Los Angeles Philharmonic. http://www.laphil.com/music/artist_detail.cfm?id=345. Retrieved 2009-08-06. 
  2. ^ "Michele Zukovsky". University of Southern California. http://www.usc.edu/schools/music/private/faculty/zukovsky.php. Retrieved 2009-08-06.