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Classical clarinetists

Ernest Ackun

Ernest Ačkun was a Yugoslav / Slovenian clarinetist.-Early life:Ernest Ačkun was born in Hrastnik, Slovenia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia....

Luís Afonso

Luís Afonso is a Brazilian clarinetist and bass clarinetist.Afonso studied clarinet and bass clarinet at the Rotterdam Conservatoire under Walter Boeykens and Henri Bok. He has taught at São Paulo University since 1992. He plays clarinet in the Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal and Orquestra Jazz...

Cristiano Alves

Cristiano Alves is a Brazilian clarinetist.Alves was born in Rio de Janeiro and was taught by José Carlos Castro. He holds a Master's degree from the School of Music at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande . He is first clarinet of the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira and the Petrobrás Sinfônica, and...

Chen Halevi

Chen Halevi is a clarinettist. A native of the Negev desert in Israel, he studied the clarinet with Yitzchak Kazap and Richard Lesser, continuing with Mordechai Rechtman and Chaim Taub for his chamber music studies.-Debut:...

Michel Arrignon

Michel Arrignon is a French clarinetist and professor of clarinet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.Arrignon studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. He played in the Orchestre Mondial des Jeunesses Musicales and won second prize in the Geneva...

Alexander Bader

Alexander Bader is a German clarinetist.Bader was born in 1965 in Stuttgart. He studied piano and clarinet at Berlin's Hochschule der Künste. His clarinet teachers were Manfred Preis and Peter Rieckhoff. He studied under Wolfgang Meyer in the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik...

Kinan Azmeh

-Life:Born in Damascus, Syria in 1976, Azmeh began to play the clarinet after taking lessons in the violin before switching to the clarinet. Kinan studied at the Arab conservatory of music in Damascus, the Juilliard School in New York and the University of Damascus .Kinan has appeared worldwide...

József Balogh

József Balogh is a Hungarian clarinetist.Balogh was a student of Bela Kovacs at the Franz Liszt College of Music in Budapest. He is a solo clarinetist in the Budapest Opera and Budapest Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has been the president of the Hungarian Clarinet Society since 1994.- Discography :*...

Luigi Bassi (clarinetist)

Luigi Bassi was an Italian composer and clarinetist.Bassi was born in Cremona and studied at the Milan Conservatory under Benedetto Carulli from 1846 to 1853. He was the principal clarinetist of La Scala in Milan. He composed a total of 27 works for clarinet...

Simeon Bellison

Simeon Bellison , born in Moscow, he was naturalised American after settling in the US in 1921.An early clarinet choir in the United States was established in 1927 by Simeon Bellison, then first clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic; from an initial eight members, the group's size grew by 1948...

Kálmán Berkes

Kálmán Berkes is a Hungarian clarinetist.Berkes was born in Budapest on May 8, 1952. He graduated from the Budapest Liszt Music Academy in 1972. He won second place at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1974, and his Opera Wind Quintet was a prize-winner in Munich in 1975...

Julian Bliss

Julian Bliss is a British clarinetist and clarinet designer. He has performed both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, notably with his teacher Sabine Meyer...

David Blumberg

Clarinetist David Blumberg is a Concert Artist - Clinician for the , a noted pedagogue of Woodwinds and a music producer. His Produced works include the written for Principal Clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Michele Zukovsky...

Walter Boeykens

Knight Walter Boeykens January 6, 1938 Bornem, Belgium is a Belgian conductor and a world renowned clarinetist. Boeykens has an impressive discography including several critically acclaimed performances that are testimony to his status as one of the most notable clarinetists of the 20th century...

Henri Bok

Henri Bok is a Dutch bass clarinetist and saxophonist. He is a professor of bass clarinet at Rotterdam Superior Conservatoire and Musikene in San Sebastian....

Daniel Bonade

Daniel Bonade , a French classical clarinetist and professor of clarinet, was the most influential teacher of classical clarinet of the first generation of American-born professional clarinetists.The first teacher of Bonade was Ferdinand Capelle in Geneva Daniel Bonade (Geneva, April 4, 1896 –...

Tara Bouman

Clarinettist Tara Bouman studied the clarinet at the conservatories of Amsterdam and Rotterdam with Walter Boeijkens and Piet Honingh.She plays the corno di bassetto or basset horn, clarinet and bass clarinet....

Naftule Brandwein

Naftule Brandwein, or Naftuli Brandwine, was a Jewish clarinetist and influential klezmer musician.- Early life :Brandwein was born in Przemyslany, Poland-Galicia , into a family of klezmer musicians, part of the Stretiner Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi Yehuda Hirsch Brandwein of Stratin...

Bruno Brun

Bruno Brun was a Yugoslavian clarinetist and professor at the Academy of Music in Belgrade.-Education:...

Jack Brymer

John Alexander Brymer OBE , was a British clarinettist, born in South Shields.-Biography:The son of a builder, Jack Brymer started his working life as a teacher, being at Heath Clark School, Thornton Heath, Surrey in the late 1940s...

Lars Kristian Holm Brynildsen

Lars Kristian Brynildsen

Lars Kristian Holm Brynildsen was a Norwegian clarinetist. He was principal clarinet of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1979 until his death in 2005 and was a member of the Bergen Woodwind Quintet for 25 years. Before coming to Bergen, he was principal clarinet in the Stavanger Symphony...

Nicola Bulfone

Nicola Bulfone is an Italian clarinetist.Bulfone was born in 1963 in Hässleholm, Sweden, and studied clarinet at the Udine Conservatory. From 1985 to 1988 he studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart under Ulf Rodenhäuser, winning an Advanced Diploma in clarinet...

Ovanir Buosi

Ovanir Buosi is a Brazilian clarinetist. He plays with the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra.Buosi was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He studied with Sergio Burgani at the Sao Paulo State University, graduating in 1997. He joined the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra shortly after graduation. He...

Sérgio Burgani

Sérgio Burgani is a Brazilian clarinetist.Burgani teaches clarinet at Sao Paulo State University. He is a member of Sujeito a Guincho, a clarinet quintet based in Sao Paulo. Sujeito a Guincho received the Eldorado Award in 1996...

Louis Cahuzac

Louis Cahuzac was a French clarinetist and composer. Cahuzac was an outstanding performer and one of the few clarinetists who made a career as a soloist in the first part of the 20th century....

David Campbell

David Campbell (British clarinetist)

David Campbell, , is a British clarinetist.David Campbell is internationally recognised as one of Britain's finest musicians and was described by the doyen of British clarinettists, Jack Brymer, as 'the finest player of his generation'....

James Campbell

James Campbell (clarinetist)

James Campbell is a Canadian/American clarinetist. James Campbell has followed his muse to five television specials, more than 40 recordings, over 30 works commissioned, a Juno Award , a Roy Thomson Hall Award, Canada's Artist of the Year and the Order of Canada...

Alessandro Carbonare

Alessandro Carbonare is an Italian clarinetist.Carbonare started on E clarinet at age 5. At age 21 he became co-principal of the Lyon Opera Orchestra, and later joined the Orchestre National de France. has been the principal clarinetist with the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome since 2003. He has...

Ernesto Cavallini

Ernesto Cavallini was an Italian clarinetist and composer.Born in Milan, Cavallini studied at the Milan Conservatory under Carulli. He performed at the Conservatoire Concerts in 1830 with his brother, violinist Eugenio Cavallini. He became the principal clarinetist of La Scala under Giacomo Panizza...

Florent Charpentier

Florent Charpentier is a French clarinetist.Charpentier began playing clarinet at age 8 under Philippe Moinet. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under Michel Arrignon and Pascal Moraguès, graduating in 2000. He then received a diploma in chamber music in 2002. He then enrolled in the...

Larry Combs

Larry Combs is an American clarinetist. His principal teachers were Stanley Hasty at the Eastman School of Music and Leon Russianoff in New York....

Louis Cottrell, Jr.

Louis Albert Cottrell, Jr. was a Louisiana Creole jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist. He was the son of the influential drummer Louis Cottrell, Sr., and grandfather of New Orleans jazz drummer Louis Cottrell...

Jean-Noël Crocq

Jean-Noël Crocq is a French clarinetist.Crocq studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. He created Le clarinettiste débutant, a book of sheet music for beginning clarinetists. In 1974, he became the solo bass clarinetist for the orchestra of l'Opéra de Paris. He became the first professor of bass...

Philippe Cuper

Philippe Cuper is a French clarinetist, born in Lille on April 25, 1957.He is considered to be one of the best representatives of the current French clarinet school.- Studies :...

Hans Deinzer

Hans Deinzer is a clarinetist and clarinet teacher. Now retired, he taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hannover for thirty years, and retired in 1996...

Guy Deplus

Guy Deplus is a French clarinetist.Deplus studied clarinet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and received Premiers Prix in clarinet and chamber music. He was a professor of clarinet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and is now retired. He taught...

Charles Draper Stanley Drucker

Stanley Drucker

Stanley Drucker is an American clarinetist. Of Ukrainian ancestry, he began clarinet studies at age ten with Leon Russianoff, and remained his student for five years. He attended the High School of Music & Art...

Eli Eban

Eli Eban is an Israeli-American clarinetist and son of the venerable late Israeli diplomat Abba Eban.-Education:Eli Eban was born in New York and received his early musical training in Israel, studying the clarinet with Richard Lesser and Yona Ettlinger...

Anton Eberst

Anton Eberst was Serbian clarinetist, professor of clarinet at the Isidor Bajić School of Music in Novi Sad and author of numerous textbooks and articles about the wind instruments.-References:*, Retrieved on April 29, 2010* at the website of the Anton...

Julian Egerton

Julian Egerton was a British classical clarinetist.Despite contracting polio at the age of eight, he went on to have a lengthy, productive career, performing until the age of 93. He first studied under his father, William Egerton, and then with George Tyler of the Royal Philharmonic Society...

Fredrik Fors

Fredrik Fors is a Swedish, classical music clarinetist. His album in the Juventus Les Nouveaux Musiciens series has been described as "one of the finest recitals of its kind."- Early studies and career :...

Rupert Fankhauser

Rupert Fankhauser is an Austrian clarinetist. He is also a lecturer at the University of Music and Pictoral Arts in Vienna.Fankhauser studied clarinet at the Academy of Music in Vienna. In 1985, he became the principal clarinetist of the Municipal Theatre of Klagenfurt and the Carinthian Symphony...

Thomas Friedli

Thomas Friedli was an internationally renowned Swiss clarinetist. He died in 2008 in Madeira.-Biography:Thomas Friedli studied in Bern, Lausanne and Paris before winning 1st Prize and "Prix Ernest Ansermet" at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1972...

Mariano Frogioni

Mariano Frogioni is an Argentine clarinetist.Frogioni is the national chairperson of the International Clarinet Association for Argentina. He taught at the National Music Conservatory of Buenos Aires. He was also the principal clarinetist of the Orquestra Sinfónica Nacional until his retirement....

Martin Fröst

Martin Fröst is a Swedish clarinetist, born in Sundsvall in the north of Sweden in 1970. He first started playing the violin at the age of six, but he found playing soccer and basketball were more interesting. When he was nine, he started playing the clarinet, and when he was 15, he moved to...

Wenzel Fuchs

-Biography:Fuchs was born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1963.He studied clarinet at the Innsbruck Conservatory with Walter Kefer and at the Vienna Music Academy with Peter Schmidl...

Peter Geisler

Peter Geisler is a German clarinetist. He is a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He plays on an Öhler system clarinet.-Discography:*Mozart: Divertimenti, KV166, KV186, with various artists. Orfeo, 1994....

Anthony Gigliotti

Anthony Gigliotti "was one of the world's most famous and most accomplished classical clarinet players for most of the second half of the 20th century." "He jointed the Philadelphia Orchestra as its principal clarinetist in 1949 and stayed for 47 years" and "designed a ligature that is now named...

Bruno di Girolamo

Bruno di Girolamo is an Italian clarinetist.Girolamo studied clarinet at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He now teaches at the Conservatorio. He performed with I Virtuosi di Roma under Renato Fasano. He is uses a "Wurlitzer Boehm-reformed system" clarinet.-References:...

Johannes Gmeinder

Johannes Gmeinder is a German clarinetist.Gmeinder studied clarinet at the Musikhochschules in Trossingen and Berlin. In 1996, he won a scholarship from the Orchesterakademie of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been the principal clarinetist of the Frankfurt Opera since 1999...

Jose Gonzalez Granero

José González Granero is a Spanish musician and since 2010, the Principal Clarinetist for the San Francisco Opera.- Early life :...

Ante Grgin

Ante Grgin is a Serbian clarinetist and composer.-Education:Grgin started his early training at the School of Music in Split...

Burt Hara

Burt Hara has been principal clarinetist with the Minnesota Orchestra since 1987.Hara is a native of California. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984 from the Curtis Institute of Music, where his principal teachers were Donald Montanaro, Yehuda Gilad, and Mitchell Lurie.Before coming to...

Russell Harlow

Russell Harlow, a clarinetist, grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in Utah. Russell is the co-director of the ] and Autumn Classics Music Festival] and runs both the Sonolumina Chamber Orchestra and the Contemporary Music Consortium of Utah...

Johann Hindler

Johann "Hans" Hindler is an Austrian clarinetist.Hindler teaches clarinet at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He also plays clarinet in the Vienna Philharmonic. Austrian president Thomas Klestil awarded him the Silver Medal of Merit for service to the Republic of Austria in...

Helmut Hödl

Helmut Hödl is an Austrian clarinetist and composer.Hödl first played clarinet at age 6. He studied clarinet at the music academies of Vienna and Graz...

Emma Johnson Sharon Kam

Sharon Kam

Sharon Kam is a classically trained clarinetist. Notably, she won the ARD International Music Competition in 1992.; in 1991 she was also nominated for the Davidoff Prize.- Biography :...

Reginald Kell

Reginald Clifford Kell was a British clarinetist.-Career:Born in York, England, Kell was the first prominent player to apply vibrato consciously and consistently to his tone, in which respect he modelled himself on his colleague the oboist Léon Goossens...

Thea King

Dame Thea King DBE FRCM FGSM was a British clarinettist.Thea King was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Henry Walter Mayer King, the manager of a family engineering business, George. W. King Ltd., based in Hitchin then Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and his wife, Dorothea...

Dieter Klöcker

Dieter Klöcker was a German clarinetist known for rediscovering many forgotten masters of the 18th century...

Howard Klug

Howard Klug is an American clarinetist and university professor.- Performance career :Howard Klug has been a chamber musician, soloist, and clinician throughout the United States, Great Britain, Belgium, Portugal, Austria, Venezuela, China and Israel. A former member of the U.S. Air Force Band in...

Bil Jackson

Bil Jackson is a professional classical clarinetist. He started his symphonic career at age 19 with the Honolulu Symphony in 1980 where he was principal clarinetist for two seasons. Jackson has worked with various performers in the orchestral and chamber setting including David Shifrin, Emanuel Ax,...

Béla Kovács Wolfgang Kornberger

Wolfgang Kornberger

Wolfgang Kornberger is an Austrian bass clarinetist.Kornberger studied at the Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna. He was a founding member of the Vienna Clarinet Connection, and has worked for them as an arranger since 1994. He also holds a part-time lectureship at the University of...

Kari Kriikku

Kari Kriikku is a Finnish classical clarinetist.He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and later with Alan Hacker in England and with Leon Russianoff and Charles Neidich in the USA....

Alison Lambert

-Biography:Lambert studied clarinet at the Royal Northern College of Music where she was a major scholarship recipient, before accepting a scholarship to study with Professor Wolfgang Meyer in Karlsruhe, Germany...

Andrey Laukhin

Andrey Laukhin is a Russian clarinetist.Laukhin is the principal clarinetist of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. As a member of the orchestra, he has been on tour in the United States and Europe. He is a Laureate of the All-Russian Competition for clarinet.-References:...

Andreas Lehnert

Andreas Lehnert is a German clarinetist.Lehnert was born in Augsberg, Germany, and studied at the Colleges of Music in Stuttgart and Detmold. From 1994 to 1995, he was principal clarinet with the Hessian States Theatre Darmstadt; since 1995, he has been the principal clarinetist for the Leipzig...

Karl Leister

Karl Leister is a classical clarinet player from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. At a very young age, he learned to play the clarinet from his father, also a clarinetist, and later studied at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin...

Michel Lethiec

Michel Lethiec is a French clarinetist.Lethiec has played with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole, the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Prague Radio Orchestra, and the Philharmonique de Radio France. He has...

Lorin Levee

Lorin Levee is an American clarinetist.Levee studied clarinet at De Paul University. He played clarinet in the Grant Park Symphony, the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, and the American Ballet Theater Orchestra. He was on the faculty of De Paul University for 3 years....

Todd Levy

Todd Levy is an American classical clarinetist.He is principal clarinet of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and, during the summer months,the Santa Fe Opera. He is also on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee....

Robert Lindemann

Robert Lindemann was a German-American clarinetist.Lindemann emigrated to the United States in September 1911 at the request of composer Gustav Mahler, settling first in Minneapolis. He was the solo clarinetist for the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra for two years...

Jon Manasse

Jon Manasse is an American clarinetist.Manasse studied clarinet at the Juilliard School under David Weber. He won a prize in the International Competition for Clarinet in Munich and was the youngest winner of the International Clarinet Society Competition....

Sebastian Manz

Sebastian Manz is a German clarinetist.Manz began studying clarinet at Musikhochschule Lübeck in 1997. He won first place in Jugend musiziert in 1994 and 1999-2003. He was the first clarinetist in 40 years to win first prize in the ARD International Music Competition in Munich...

Robert Marcellus

Robert Marcellus was an American classical clarinetist and teacher. Marcellus is best known for his long tenure as principal clarinetist of the Cleveland Orchestra.-Biography:...

Andrew Marriner

Andrew Marriner is a British classical clarinettist and the son of the famed conductor Neville Marriner. He was a boy chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. In 1968, he joined the National Youth Orchestra, and eventually pursued studies at Oxford University. He then left Oxford and...

Lawrence Maxey

Lawrence S. Maxey is professor emeritus of clarinet at the University of Kansas School of Music....

Marco Antonio Mazzini

Marco Antonio Mazzini is a Peruvian clarinetist.Mazzini received a degree in clarinet from the National Conservatory of Peru, and a master's degree from the Ghent Conservatory...

Anthony McGill

Anthony McGill is the principal clarinetist for the Metropolitan Opera. McGill is originally from Chicago, Illinois, growing up in the city's Chatham neighborhood....

Ralph McLane

Ralph McLane was an American clarinetist.He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts.McLane is best known for his tenure as principal clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1943 until his death in 1951...

Jacques Meertens

Jacques Meertens is a Dutch clarinetist. He is the principal clarinetist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He plays on a German Reform-Boehm system clarinet.-References:...

Paul Meyer

Paul Meyer (clarinetist)

Paul Meyer is a French clarinetist.Meyer is possibly the most well-known contemporary solo clarinetist from France. He is known for his solo recordings on the Denon label, notably in collaborations with Jean-Pierre Rampal and Eric Le Sage. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and at the Basler...

Sabine Meyer

Sabine Meyer is a German classical clarinetist.-Biography:Meyer began playing the clarinet at an early age. Her first teacher was her father, also a clarinetist...

Wolfgang Meyer

Wolfgang Meyer is a German clarinetist.Meyer studied clarinet at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover along with his sister Sabine Meyer. He has led masterclasses in Brazil, Italy, Japan, Canada and Finland. He is a member of Trio di...

Lev Mikhailov

Lev Mikhailov was a Russian clarinetist and saxophonist. He taught clarinet and saxophone at the Moscow Conservatory. Mikhailov performed with the Moscow Radio Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre and the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR....

Pascal Moragues

Pascal Moragues is a French clarinetist. Moragues has been the principal clarinetist of the Orchestre de Paris since 1981. He has been a professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris since 1995 and a guest professor at the Superior College of Music in Osaka since...

Ricardo Morales

Ricardo Morales is a classical clarinetist of Puerto Rican descent. Since 2003, he has been the principal clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Prior to that, he had been principal clarinetist at the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra...

Charles Neidich

Charles Neidich is an American classical clarinetist, composer, and conductor.-Early career:A native New Yorker of Russian and Greek descent, Charles Neidich began his clarinet studies with his father, Irving Neidich, at the age of eight, and continued them with the renowned teacher Leon Russianoff...

Tale Ognenovski

Tale Ognenovski is a Macedonian multi-instrumentalist: clarinet, reed pipe , tin whistle, small bagpipe, zourla and drum, composer and bandleader. On January 27, 1956, he performed at Carnegie Hall, New York City as clarinet and reed pipe soloist of Macedonian State Ensemble of Folk Dances...

Sean Osborn

Sean Osborn is a former clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and is a regular substitute in the clarinet section of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. A student of Stanley Hasty, Frank Kowalsky, and Eric Mandat. Osborn has traveled Europe, Japan, and North America as a soloist and...

Andreas Ottensamer

Andreas Ottensamer is an Austrian clarinetist.- Life :Ottensamer commenced his musical studies in 1999 on piano in his hometown and then at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, on Violoncello with Wolfgang Herzer and then from 2003 Clarinet with Johann Hindler. Ottensamer is also...

Ernst Ottensamer

Ernst Ottensamer is a classical clarinetist. He was born at Wallern in Upper Austria and studied the clarinet at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz, before moving to Vienna Musikhochschule, where he completed his studies in 1979. He first played with the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic...

Edward Palanker

Edward Palanker is an American clarinetist and university professor.-Education:Mr. Palanker graduated from The Manhattan School of Music and attended the Mannes College of Music. His principal clarinet teachers where Leon Russianoff and Eric Simon and he studied bass clarinet with Joe Allard...

Antony Pay

Antony Pay was born in London on February 21, 1945. After gaining a place with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, with whom he performed the Mozart clarinet concerto at the ages of 16, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music and then read Mathematics at Cambridge University, graduating...

Gervase de Peyer

Gervase Alan de Peyer is an English clarinetist and conductor.-Professional career:Gervase de Peyer was born in London and attended Bedales School. He was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he studied clarinet with Frederick Thurston and piano with Arthur Alexander...

Thomas Piercy

Thomas Piercy is an American clarinetist based in New York City. Although he studied in the United States, his playing style is heavily influenced by the English school of clarinet playing by his extensive studies with English clarinet virtuoso Gervase de Peyer.He has been cited by the New York...

George Pieterson

George Pieterson is a Dutch clarinetist. Pieterson was the principal clarinetist of the Royal Amsterdam Concertgebouworkest, until he retired some years ago. He plays on a Wurlitzer Reform-Boehm clarinet. He has performed with Hephzibah Menuhin and Edo de Waart....

Robert Plane Manfred Preis

Manfred Preis

Manfred Preis is a German bass clarinetist and saxophonist.Preis studied at the Munich Musikhochschule and the Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker. He played clarinet in the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. He plays bass clarinet in the Berlin Philharmonic. He also plays clarinet in...

Alfred Prinz

Alfred Prinz is an Austrian composer, clarinetist, and music educator. In 1947 he was awarded a Gold Medal at the Geneva Music Competition and in 1971 he won a composition award from the city of Vienna. His compositional output includes 7 symphonies, many concertos, several works for solo piano,...

Luis Rossi

Luis Rossi is an internationally renowned clarinetist. He performed as Principal clarinetist in symphony orchestras throughout South America for twenty years before he founded a clarinet workshop in Santiago, Chile, in 1986...

Sergey Rozanov Hubert Salmhofer

Hubert Salmhofer

Hubert Salmhofer is an Austrian clarinetist and basset horn player.Salmhofer graduated from the Graz Music Academy in 1990. He teaches at the academy and at its specialist music school in Oberschützen, as well as at the Conservatory of Music in Klagenfurt...

Louis Sclavis

Louis Sclavis is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including jazz and free jazz...

Peter Schmidl

Peter Schmidl is an Austrian clarinetist.Schmidl was born in Olomuc, Czech Republic, and studied clarinet at the Vienna Musikhochschule. He is the principal clarinetist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. He has played with the MDR Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, and the Tokyo New...

David Shifrin

David Shifrin is an American classical clarinetist.-Performances:He has performed clarinet concertos with many major orchestras around the world....

Mark Simpson

Mark Simpson (clarinetist)

Mark Simpson is a British clarinetist from Liverpool, who won the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006 title on 20 May 2006, playing Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto with the Northern Sinfonia and Yan Pascal Tortelier at The Sage Gateshead...

Vladimir Sokolov Nikola Srdić

Nikola Srdić

Nikola Srdić is a Serbian clarinetist and Professor of Clarinet at the University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts, Serbia and University of Banja Luka Academy of Arts, Bosnia and Herzegovina.-References:*, Retrieved on July 17, 2009...

Anton Stadler

Anton Stadler was an Austrian clarinet and basset horn player for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote both his Quintet for Clarinet and Strings and Clarinet Concerto....

Milenko Stefanović

Milenko Stefanovic

Milenko Stefanović is the most famous Serbian and Yugoslav clarinetist: a prizewinner in the international competitions in Moscow, Munich, Geneva and Prague, soloist who has achieved significant international career, long-time principal clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and...

Karl-Heinz Steffens

Karl-Heinz Steffens is a German clarinetist and conductor.Steffens studied clarinet at the Stuttgart Academy of Music under Ulf Rodenhäuser. He has played with the State Theatre in Kassel, the Frankfurt Opera and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was the solo clarinetist with the Berlin...

Suzanne Stephens

Suzanne Stephens is an American clarinetist, resident in Germany, described as "an outstanding performer and tireless promoter of the clarinet and basset horn" .-Biography:...

Richard Stoltzman

Richard Stoltzman is an American clarinetist. Born Richard Leslie Stoltzman in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent his early years in San Francisco, California and Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from Woodward High School in 1960. Today, Stoltzman is part of the faculty list at the New England Conservatory...

Peter Sunman

Peter Sunman MMus, BMusEd, LMusA, LTCL, GradDipBus is an eminent clarinetist, formerly the principal clarinetist of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra between 1978 and 1990. He is a state examiner for the Western Australian branch of the Australian Music Examinations Board...

Frederick Thurston

Frederick John Thurston was an English clarinettist.From the age of 7 he was taught by his father and he won an open scholarship to the Royal College of Music, becoming a pupil of Charles Draper...

Alison Turriff

Alison Turriff is a Scottish folk fusion clarinetist, recording artist, researcher, composer, producer and Artist for world leading clarinet makers Buffet Crampon.-Early life:...

Joaquin Valdepeñas Jean-François Verdier

Jean-François Verdier

Jean-François Verdier is a French clarinetist.Verdier graduated from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris. He has been a soloist with l'Opéra de Paris since 1996. He was a soloist with l'Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. He has taught at the Paris Conservatory since...

Bernard Walton

Bernard Walton was a British classical clarinetist.Walton was born into a musical family. His grandfather was a cellist with the Hallé Orchestra under the eponymous founder Charles Hallé, and his father played in the Queen's Hall Orchestra...

David Weber

David Weber (clarinetist)

David Weber was an American classical clarinetist known for the beauty of his tone, his inspired playing, and his influential teaching of the clarinet.-Early life:...

Harold Wright

Harold Wright (clarinetist)

Harold Wright was principal clarinetist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1970 to 1993.Wright was born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and began his clarinet studies at age twelve. He continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia as a student of Ralph McLane of the...

John Bruce Yeh

John Bruce Yeh is the acting principal clarinetist and Eb clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Yeh joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1977. He started as solo bass clarinetist and two years later was appointed assistant principal and Eb clarinetist.-External links:*...

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. She has taught at the California...

Jazz and pop clarinetists

Muhal Richard Abrams

Muhal Richard Abrams is an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the Free jazz medium. Abrams compresses both contemporary and traditional ideas into lean, elegant pieces.- Biography :Abrams attended DuSable High School in Chicago...

George Adams

George Adams (musician)

George Rufus Adams was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. He is best known for his work with Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Roy Haynes and in the quartet he co-led with pianist Don Pullen, featuring bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Dannie Richmond...

Pete Allen

Pete Allen is an English dixieland jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, bandleader and vocalist known for his work with Kenny Ball, Terry Lightfoot, Beryl Bryden, Tommy Burton, Ian-Hunter Randall, Chris Hodgkins, Mick Cooke and John Armatage.He presented his own jazz programme for BBC...

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...

Lloyd Arntzen

Lloyd Arntzen is a jazz clarinetist, folk singer, and soprano saxophonist from Vancouver, BC, Canada. Arntzen has been an active participant on the New Orleans jazz scene, forming the New Orleans North Traditional Jazz Band along with members Alan Matheson, Grant Simpson, Craig Scott and Graeme...

Georgie Auld

Georgie Auld was a jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader.Auld was born John Altwerger in Toronto...

Nailor Azevedo

Nailor Azevedo is a Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist. Azevedo is a member of Banda Mantiqueira, which was nominated for a Grammy in 1998. He has performed with Benny Carter and Anita O'Day. He plays Brazilian choro and samba as well as traditional jazz.-References:...

(also known as Proveta) Paulo Moura

Paulo Moura

Paulo Moura was a Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist....

Buster Bailey

William C. "Buster" Bailey was a jazz musician specializing in the clarinet, but also well versed on saxophone...

(1902-1967) Craig Ball

Craig Ball

Craig Ball is an American, swing clarinet player and leader of the White Heat Swing Orchestra. He recorded the sound track for the Warner Brother’s film Dick Tracy.Ball has played in concert with Cab Calloway...

Eddie Barefield

Eddie Barefield was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and arranger most noteworthy for his work with Bennie Moten, Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Coleman Hawkins, Sammy Price, Bernie Young, and Ben Webster...

Alan Barnes

Alan Barnes (musician)

Alan Barnes is an English Jazz musician.- Career :Alan Barnes attended Leeds College of Music between 1977–80 where he studied saxophone, woodwinds and arranging before moving to London. In 1980 he played with the Midnight Follies Orchestra and the following year was with the Pasadena Roof...

(born 1959) Emile Barnes

Emile Barnes

Emile Barnes was a New Orleans jazz clarinetist.Barnes studied under Lorenzo Tio Jr., Alphonse Picou, George Baquet, and Big Eye Nelson. Active professionally in New Orleans by 1908, he was long well regarded locally for his bluesy and distinctively individualistic style. He played with the Chris...

John Barnes

John Barnes (musician)

John Barnes is an English-born jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who played New Orleans-styled jazz in his early career. Barnes has worked with many notable artists such as Alex Welsh, Gerry Mulligan, Alan Elsdon, Spike Robinson, Bobby Wellins and Keith Nichols.- References :...

Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz is an American alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist.Bartz graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and The Juilliard School...

Alvin Batiste

Alvin Batiste was an avant garde jazz clarinetist born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He taught at his own jazz institute at Southern University in Baton Rouge...

(1932-2007) Heinie Beau

Heinie Beau

Heinie Beau was an American jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist and clarinetist, most notable for his swing clarinet work and recordings done with Tommy Dorsey, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra and Red Nichols...

Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.He was one of the first important soloists in jazz , and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist...

(1897-1959) Shloimke (Sam) Beckerman

Shloimke (Sam) Beckerman

Shloimke "Sam" Beckerman was an American klezmer clarinetist; he was a contemporary of Dave Tarras and Naftule Brandwein. He was a soloist as well as a member of Paul Whiteman's Orchestra at the New York's Little Club in the 1920s. He continued to play well into the 1950s...

(1883-1974) Sidney Beckerman

Sidney Beckerman

Sidney "Sid" Beckerman was an influential klezmer clarinet player. He learned the style from his father Shloimke, who was himself a well known klezmer soloist....

(1919-2007) Han Bennink

Han Bennink

Han Bennink is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured his playing on clarinet, violin, banjo and piano....

Derek Bermel

Derek Bermel is an American composer, clarinetist and conductor whose music blends various facets of world music, funk and jazz with largely classical performing forces and musical vocabulary...

Barney Bigard

Albany Leon Bigard, aka Barney Bigard, was an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, though primarily known for the clarinet....

(1906-1980) Acker Bilk (born 1929) Chris Biscoe

Chris Biscoe

Chris Biscoe is an English jazz multi-instrumentalist, a player of the alto, soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone, the alto clarinet, piccolo and flute...

Andy Biskin

Andy Biskin is a Texas-born American jazz clarinetist, bass clarinetist, composer and filmmaker, working primarily out of New York. Biskin is a graduate of Yale University and once served as an assistant for Alan Lomax. Biskin's music has often been played on NPR between segments on All Things...

Dan Block

Daniel Block is an American jazz clarinetist who has worked with artists such as Charles Mingus, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Gerry Mulligan. He is a member of the Marty Grosz Band, and also can be found in the pits of various Broadway shows in New York City....

Hamiet Bluiett

Hamiet Bluiett is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. His primary instrument is the baritone saxophone, and he is considered one of the finest living players of this instrument...

Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s...

Peter Brotzmann

Peter Brötzmann

Peter Brötzmann is a German artist and free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough, lyrical timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings.-Early life:...

Pud Brown

Albert Francis "Pud" Brown was an American jazz reed player.Though he was born in Delaware, Brown's parents raised him in Shreveport, Louisiana. Brown was fluent on saxophone by age five, and toured throughout North America in a family band at the age of seven...

Sandy Brown

Sandy Brown (musician)

Sandy Brown was a noted Scottish jazz clarinetist band leader and acoustic engineer who performed mostly New Orleans style and mainstream. He had a particular interest in African music, which was reflected in his compositions.-Biography:Brown was born in India of Scottish parents where his father...

Albert Burbank

Albert Burbank was an American dixieland clarinet player.Born in New Orleans Albert Burbank was taught clarinet by Lorenzo Tio, one of that cities most famous clarinet players. He stayed in the New Orleans area throughout the 1920s playing wherever his services were needed...

Don Byron

Don Byron is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet, but has also used bass clarinet and saxophones....

(born 1958) Ernie Caceres

Ernie Caceres

Ernesto "Ernie" Caceres was an American jazz musician born in Rockport, Texas.Caceres's brothers were both musicians; Emilio was a norteño violinist and Pinero was a trumpeter and pianist. Caceres himself played clarinet, guitar, alto and baritone saxophone, and first played professionally in 1928...

Happy Caldwell

Albert W. "Happy" Caldwell was an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist....

Harry Carney

Harry Howell Carney was an American swing baritone saxophonist, clarinetist, and bass clarinetist mainly known for his 45-year tenure in Duke Ellington's Orchestra. Carney started off as an alto player with Ellington, but soon switched to the baritone. His strong, steady saxophone often served as...

Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King...

Daniel Carter

Daniel Carter (musician)

Daniel Carter is an American free jazz saxophone, flute, clarinet, and trumpet player active mainly in New York City since the early 1970s...

James Carter

James Carter (musician)

James Carter is an American jazz musician.Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan and learned to play there before moving to New York City. He has been prominent as a performer and recording artist on the jazz scene since the mid-1990s, playing saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet...

John Carter

John Carter (jazz musician)

John Wallace Carter was an American jazz clarinet, saxophone, and flute player.-Biography:Born in Fort Worth, Texas, he played with Ornette Coleman and Charles Moffett in the 1940s. From 1961, Carter was based mainly on the West Coast. There he met Bobby Bradford in 1965, with whom he...

John Casimir (clarinetist)

John Casimir was a New Orleans jazz clarinetist and bandleader, best remembered as the leader of The Young Tuxedo Brass Band for some 20 years up to his death....

Evan Christopher

Evan Christopher is an American clarinetist and composer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Recognized mainly for a personal brand of "contemporary early-jazz,” he strives to extend the legacy of the unique clarinet style anchored in the musical vocabulary created by early New Orleans clarinetists...

Rod Cless

George Roderick "Rod" Cless was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, perhaps best-known for his work on sixteen Muggsy Spanier tunes for Bluebird Records...

Tony Coe

Anthony George Coe is a composer and jazz musician who plays clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor saxophone.Coe began his performing career playing with Humphrey Lyttelton's band from 1957 to 1962...

Anat Cohen

Anat Cohen is an Israeli jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader.Cohen went to the United States in 1996. Her debut album, Place & Time, was released in 2005 on Anzic Records. In 2007 she won the awards for Up and Coming Artist and Clarinetist of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association...

Randolph Colville

Randolph Colville was a Scottish jazz swing clarinettist, saxophonist, bandleader and arranger born in Glasgow, Scotland, perhaps best-known for his work with the Keith Nichols Midnite Follies Orchestra....

Hank D'Amico

Hank D'Amico , was an American jazz clarinetist.D'Amico was born in Rochester, NY. He began playing professionally with Paul Specht's band in 1936. That same year, he joined Red Norvo. In 1938, D'Amico began radio broadcasts with his own octet before returning briefly to Norvo's group in 1939...

Eddie Daniels

Eddie Daniels is an American musician. Though he is best known as a jazz clarinet player, he has also played alto and tenor saxophones, as well as classical music on the clarinet....

(born 1941) John Dankworth

John Dankworth

Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE , known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist...

Joe Darensbourg

Joe Darensbourg was an American New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and saxophonist notable for his work with Buddy Petit, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Creath, Fate Marable, Andy Kirk, Johnny Wittwer, Kid Ory, Wingy Manone, Joe Liggins and Louis Armstrong.-Discography:* The New Orleans Statesman*...

Kenny Davern

Kenny Davern , born John Kenneth Davern, was one of the premier jazz clarinetists of his generation.-Biography:He was born in Huntington, Long Island to a family of mixed Jewish and Irish-Catholic ancestry...

Nathan Davis (saxophonist)

Nathan Davis is an American hard bop jazz multi-instrumentalist who plays the tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet and flute...

- bass clarinet

Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...

, multi-instrumentalist Paul Dean (clarinetist)

Paul Dean (clarinetist)

-Career:A graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium where he reveived the Medal of Excellence, Dean won the Australian Clarinet Competition, the Mattara National Concerto Competition, the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in Los Angeles .He often performs together with his brother, the...

Buddy DeFranco

Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco is an American jazz clarinet player.-Biography:DeFranco began his professional career just as swing music and big bands — many of which were led by clarinetists like Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman — were fading in popularity...

Tobias Delius

Tobias Delius is a musician who plays the tenor saxophone & clarinet.-Music career:Delius began playing saxophone in 1980 in Germany...

Big Eye Louis Nelson Deslile Johnny Dodds

Johnny Dodds

Johnny Dodds was an American New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong. Dodds was also the older brother of drummer Warren "Baby"...

(1892-1940) Klaus Doldinger

Klaus Doldinger

Klaus Doldinger is a German saxophonist, especially well-known for jazz and as a composer of film music. He was the recipient of 1997's Bavarian Film Awards .-Life and work:...

Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flutist, and bass clarinetist. On a few occasions he also played the clarinet and baritone saxophone. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the 1960s...

(1928-1964) Arne Domnerus

Arne Domnérus

Sven Arne Domnérus was a Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist, popularly nicknamed Dompan....

Jimmy Dorsey

James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...

(1904-1957) Tommy Douglas (clarinetist)

Tommy Douglas (clarinetist)

Tommy Douglas was an American jazz clarinetist, bandleader and reed instrumentalist born in Eskridge, Kansas, probably better known for his work as a sideman for Jelly Roll Morton and Bennie Moten. He was also an accomplished bandleader, showcasing such talent in his bands as Charlie Parker and Jo...

Paquito D'Rivera

Paquito D'Rivera is a Cuban alto saxophonist, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. The winner of multiple Grammys and other awards, D'Rivera has lived in the United States since the early 1980s. He has worked in a variety of contexts, but is perhaps best known for playing Latin...

Gerd Dudek

Gerd Dudek is a German jazz tenor saxophonist, soprano saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist.Dudek studied clarinet privately and attended music school in the 1950s before joining a big band led by his brother Ossi until 1958...

Paul Dunmall

Paul Dunmall is a British jazz saxophonist who plays tenor and soprano saxophone as well as the baritone and the more exotic Saxello and the Northumbrian pipes.He has a long discography on the Duns Limited Edition label....

Kai Fagaschinski

Kai Fagaschinski is a Berlin based free improvisational clarinet player and composer. He is self-taught, and his music has been described as "rooted in abstraction, but with an increasingly insidious melodious element."-Discography:*I’m So Awake/Sleepless I Feel - as a member of The Magic I.D...

Wally Fawkes

Wally Fawkes Wally Fawkes Wally Fawkes (born 1924 in Vancouver, Canada (left in 1931 for England) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and, until recently, a satirical cartoonist...

Irving Fazola

Irving Fazola was an American jazz clarinetist.-Biography:Fazola or Faz was born in New Orleans, Louisiana as Irving Henry Prestopnik. He got the nickname Fazola from his childhood skill at Solfege . He decided to use the nickname as his family name, and many fellow musicians were unaware that...

Buddy Featherstonhaugh

Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh was an English jazz saxophonist.Featherstonhaugh studied in Sussex, and had his first professional gig with Pat O'Malley in 1927. He was with Spike Hughes from 1930 to 1932, and toured England in Billy Mason's band behind Louis Armstrong that same year...

Giora Feidman

Giora Feidman is an Argentinian-born Israeli clarinetist who specializes in klezmer music.-Biography:Giora Feidman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his Bessarabian Jewish parents immigrated to escape persecution. Feidman comes from a family of klezmer musicians...

Pete Fountain

Pete Fountain , is an American clarinetist based in New Orleans. He has played jazz, Dixieland and Creole music.-Early life and education:...

Bud Freeman

Lawrence "Bud" Freeman was a U.S. jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. He had a smooth and full tenor sax style with a heavy robust swing. He was one of the most influential and important jazz tenor saxophonists of...

Chico Freeman

Chico Freeman is a modern jazz tenor saxophonist and trumpeter and son of jazz saxophonist Von Freeman...

Victor Goines

Victor Goines is a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist and received his Masters in Music at Virginia Commonwealth University. Goines is the director of jazz studies at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. He previously served as first artistic director of the Juilliard School's jazz...

Jimmy Giuffre

James Peter Giuffre was an American jazz clarinet and saxophone player, composer and arranger. He is notable for his development of forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating forms of free improvisation.-Biography:Born in Dallas, Texas, of Italian ancestry,...

German Goldenshtayn (Klezmer

Klezmer

Klezmer is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. Played by professional musicians called klezmorim, the genre originally consisted largely of dance tunes and instrumental display pieces for weddings and other celebrations...

) Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...

(1909-1986) Edmond Hall

Edmond Hall

Edmond Hall was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader. His father Edward Blainey Hall and mother Caroline Duhe had eight children, Priscilla , Moretta , Viola , Robert , Edmond , Clarence , Edward and Herbert .-Early life:Born in Reserve, Louisiana, about...

(1901-1967) Jimmy Hamilton

Jimmy Hamilton

Jimmy Hamilton was an American jazz clarinetist, tenor saxophonist, arranger, composer, and music educator, best known for his twenty-five years with Duke Ellington....

Alfred Harth

Alfred 23 Harth is a German multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who mixes genres in a polystylistic manner...

Bob Helm

Bob Helm was a jazz clarinetist who is known for playing with Lu Watters and Turk Murphy. Helm is noted for being a member of the Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band in the 1940's. He is most associated with Dixieland music. He led at least one band, which was Bob Helm's Riverside Roustabouts...

Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman , known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd," Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and '40s bandleaders...

Peanuts Hucko

Michael Andrew "Peanuts" Hucko was an American big band musician. His primary instrument was the clarinet.-Early life and education:...

Dink Johnson

Ollie "Dink" Johnson was a dixieland jazz pianist, clarinetist, and drummer.-Background:Dink Johnson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, younger brother of the bass player/bandleader William Manuel Johnson. He worked around Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana before moving to the western United...

(1892-1954) Theo Jörgensmann

Theo Jörgensmann

Theodor Franz Jörgensmann is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional musician since 1975.-Activities:...

(born 1948) David Krakauer

David Krakauer

David Krakauer is an American clarinetist. He is a graduate of the High School of Music & Art, class of 1974. He is mostly known for his klezmer compositions. He became involved with klezmer music in the late 1980s while working as a classical musician, joining The Klezmatics...

Mustafa Kandirali

Mustafa Kandıralı is a Turkish clarinetist of gypsy and Turkish folk music.- References :...

(born 1930) John LaPorta

John LaPorta

John LaPorta was a Philadelphia-born jazz clarinetist and saxophonist. LaPorta's sound has been compared to that of fellow jazz experimenter Jimmy Giuffre...

Prince Lasha

William B. Lawsha, better known as Prince Lasha , was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and clarinetist....

Margot Leverett

Margot Leverett is a New York-based clarinettist. Born in Ohio, she lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Buffalo, New York before studying at Indiana University School of Music. At Indiana, she was classically trained. Leverett later became interested in klezmer, a traditional musical style of...

Walt Levinsky

Walt Levinsky was an American big band and orchestral player, composer, arranger and band leader. While many of his big band assignments were as lead alto sax player, his favorite instrument was the clarinet...

(1929-1999) George Lewis

George Lewis (clarinetist)

George Lewis was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in the later decades of his life.-Ancestry:...

(1900-1969) Ted Lewis

Ted Lewis (musician)

Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis , was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz, hokey comedy, and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. He was known by the moniker "Mr...

(1891-1971) Matt Lavelle

Matt Lavelle

Matt Lavelle ,.began his Music career with Hildred Humphries,.a Swing era veteran that played with Count Basie,Billie Holiday,and many others of the time.Lavelle played Trumpet during this time as a member of Hildred's band.Lavelle then made his move on New York City to go through the trials of all...

(bass clarinet) Joe Maneri

Joe Maneri

Joseph Gabriel Esther "Joe" Maneri , was an American jazz composer, saxophone and clarinet player. Violinist Mat Maneri is his son....

Joe Marsala

Joe Marsala was an Italian-American jazz clarinetist and songwriter, born and based in Chicago. He was active during the big band era. Marsala is notable as one of the early employers of drummer Buddy Rich. Among his other musicians included pianist Joe Bushkin and guitarist Jack Lemaire, Carmen...

Stan McDonald

Stanley Montrose "Stan" McDonald is a traditional jazz clarinetist and soprano saxophone player.McDonald was one of the founding members of the New Black Eagle Jazz Band in 1971. Ten years later, in 1981, he founded the Blue Horizon Jazz Band...

Hal McKusick

Hal McKusick is an American-born jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist, most notable for his work with Boyd Raeburn from 1944 to 1945 and Claude Thornhill from 1948 to 1949.-Biography:...

Mezz Mezzrow

Milton Mesirow, better known as Mezz Mezzrow was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from Chicago, Illinois. Mezzrow is well known for organizing and financing historic recording sessions with Tommy Ladnier and Sidney Bechet. Mezzrow also recorded a number of times with Bechet and...

Jean-Christian Michel

Jean-Christian Michel is a composer and clarinetist. His compositions are influenced by jazz and by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.Michel has received 3 diamond discs, 7 platinum discs and 10 golden discs. He is a "Full Member" of the SACEM...

Marcus Miller

Marcus Miller is an American jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Miller is best known as a bassist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a prolific solo career...

(born 1959) Gabriele Mirabassi

Gabriele Mirabassi

Gabriele Mirabassi is an Italian jazz clarinetist. In 1967 he was born in Perugia and is a graduate of the Morlacchi conservatory in that city. Mirabassi is active in contemporary music and is one of the founders of the Artisanat Furteux Ensemble....

Gussie Mueller

Gustave "Gussie" Mueller was an early jazz clarinetist....

David Murray

David Murray (jazz musician)

David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...

Don Murray

Don Murray (clarinetist)

Don Murray was an early jazz clarinet and saxophone player.Don Murray was born in Joliet, Illinois, and attended high school in Chicago. In his teens he made a name for himself as one of the best young jazz clarinetists and saxophonists in the city...

(1904-1929) Phil Nimmons

Phil Nimmons

Phillip Rista Nimmons, is a Canadian jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and academic.Born in Kamloops, British Columbia, the son of George Rista and Hilda Louise , he attended Lord Byng Secondary School, graduating in 1940. He then received a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in...

Jimmy Noone (1895-1944) Alcide Nunez

Alcide Nunez

Alcide Patrick Nunez was an early United States jazz clarinetist. Also known as Yellow Nunez and Al Nunez, he was born in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana of an Isleño family and moved to New Orleans in his childhood.He initially played guitar, then switched to clarinet about 1902...

(1884-1934) Sean O'Boyle (composer)

Sean O'Boyle (composer)

Sean O'Boyle is an Australian composer and conductor.His River Symphony was performed by the Queensland Orchestra and released on ABC Classics in 2007 on a CD that also included Concerto for Didgeridoo composed with and recorded by William Barton...

(born 1963) Tale Ognenovski

Tale Ognenovski

Ken Peplowski

Ken Peplowski is a jazz clarinetist born in Cleveland, Ohio, known primarily for playing in the swing music idiom. He is sometimes compared to Benny Goodman in terms of tone and virtuosity...

Sid Phillips

Sid Phillips (musician)

Isador Simon "Sid" Phillips was an English jazz clarinetist, bandleader, and arranger.Phillips learned violin and piano as a child, and played reeds in his teens as a member of his brother's European band. He got into the music business as a publisher and director for the Edison-Bell Gramophone...

(1907-1973) Michel Portal

Michel Portal

Michel Portal is a composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.Portal studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris...

(born 1935) Perry Robinson

Perry Robinson

Perry Morris Robinson is an American jazz clarinetist and composer. He is the son of the noted composer Earl Robinson. -Biography:...

Ned Rothenberg

Ned Rothenberg is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He specializes in woodwind instruments, including the alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, and shakuhachi...

Harold Rubin

Harold Rubin is a South African-born Israeli visual artist and free jazz clarinettist.-Biography:Harold Rubin was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on 13 May 1932. He attended the Jeppe High School for Boys and received private instruction in the fine arts...

(born 1932) Pee Wee Russell

Pee Wee Russell

Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet....

(1906-1969) Dan St. Marseille

Dan St. Marseille

Dan St. Marseille is an American clarinetist and saxophonist.St. Marseille has had recordings profiled in subject of articles in Down Beat, Jazztimes, Los Angeles Times, and Jazz Critic. He headlined at the Coleman Hawkins Festival in Topeka. He was inducted into the Saddleback Valley School...

(born 1962) Louis Sclavis

Louis Sclavis

Louis Sclavis is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including jazz and free jazz...

Tony Scott

Tony Scott (musician)

Tony Scott was a jazz clarinetist known for an interest in folk music around the world...

(1921-2007) Artie Shaw

Artie Shaw

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky , better known as Artie Shaw, was an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He was also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings....

(1910-2004) Harry Shields

Harry Shields

Harry Shields was an early jazz clarinetist.Harry Shields was born in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, the younger brother of noted clarinetist Larry Shields. Harry spent almost his whole career in New Orleans. He played with the bands of Norman Brownlee, Sharkey Bonano, Tom Brown, Johnny Wiggs,...

(1899-1971) Larry Shields

Larry Shields

Lawrence James "Larry" Shields was an early American dixieland jazz clarinetist.Shields was born into an Irish-American family in Uptown New Orleans, on the same block where jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden lived...

(1893-1953) Omer Simeon

Omer Simeon

Omer Victor Simeon was an American jazz clarinetist. He also played soprano, alto, and baritone saxophone and bass clarinet....

(1902-1959) Bill Smith

Bill Smith (jazz musician)

William Overton Smith , known as Bill Smith, is a U.S. jazz clarinetist, and composer. He has played with Dave Brubeck, among others.-Life:...

Chris Speed

Chris Speed is an American saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.He studied classical piano from the age of five, and began clarinet at eleven. In high school he took up the tenor saxophone and began studying jazz...

S. Frederick Starr

Stephen Frederick Starr is the founder and Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute. He is also a noted musician.-Academic career:...

(born 1940) Milenko Stefanović

Milenko Stefanovic

(born 1930) Richard Stoltzman

Richard Stoltzman

Wilber Sweatman (1882-1961) Antti Sarpila

Antti Sarpila

Antti Sarpila is a Finnish jazz musician .He formerly performed in a Benny Goodman-inspired style, and studied under Bob Wilber, and he was part of the «Tribute to Benny Goodman» , and later figured in six tours of the USA. Later, he performed at the Oslo Jazzfestival 2006, together with...

Monty Sunshine

Monty Sunshine was an English jazz clarinetist, whose main claim to fame was his clarinet solo on the track "Petite Fleur", a million seller for the Chris Barber Jazz Band in 1959...

(born 1928) Dave Tarras

Dave Tarras

Dave Tarras was possibly the most famous 20th century klezmer musician. He is known for his long career and his very skilled clarinet playing.-Biography:...

(1897-1989) Ken Vandermark

Ken Vandermark

Ken Vandermark is an American jazz composer and saxophone and clarinet player.A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate...

Oliver Weindling

Oliver Weindling is a British jazz promoter and founder of the Babel jazz record label. He came from a family which encouraged his interest in music, being taken to the opera and concerts regularly. Originally an economist by training with degrees from Balliol College, Oxford and London School of...

(born 1955) Michael White

Michael White (clarinetist)

Michael White is a jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer, jazz historian and musical educator...

Hans Olof (Putte) Wickman

Putte Wickman

Putte Wickman was one of the world's leading jazz clarinetists.He was born Hans Olof Wickman in Falun, and grew up in Borlänge, Sweden, where his parents hoped he would become a lawyer. He nagged them to allow him to go to high school in Stockholm...

Bob Wilber

Bob Wilber is an internationally recognized American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and band leader living in Chipping Campden, England. Although his scope covers a wide range of jazz, Wilber has been a dedicated advocate of classic styles, working throughout his career to present traditional jazz...

Lester Young

Lester Willis Young , nicknamed "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He also played trumpet, violin, and drums....

Evan Ziporyn

Evan Ziporyn is an American composer of post-minimalist music and music for Balinese gamelans. He plays the clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, and metallophone, borrowing from classical music, avant-garde, and jazz...

Kyuhyun

Cho Kyuhyun , best known mononymously as Kyuhyun, is a Korean pop singer. He is the youngest member of a very popular boy band Super Junior. In Super Junior, he is a main vocalist. He is also one of the first four Korean artists to appear on Chinese postage stamps...

(born 1988) Shankar Tucker

Shankar Tucker

Shankar Tucker is an American clarinetist and music composer. He rose to fame with the popularity of his online music series called "The ShrutiBox". The Shrutibox, features his fusion compositions and was released online on media sharing platforms like Youtube and Soundcloud.-Early life and...

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