Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.
Jon Yasuhiro Nakamatsu is an American classical pianist who resides in San Jose.
David Shifrin is an American classical clarinetist and artistic director.
David Weber was an American classical clarinetist known for the beauty of his tone, his inspired playing, and his influential teaching of the clarinet.
Arthur Weisberg was an American clarinetist, bassoonist, conductor, composer and author.
Sean Osborn is a former clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and a regular substitute in the clarinet section of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. He has been a student of Stanley Hasty, Frank Kowalsky, and Eric Mandat.
Harold Wright was an American musician who was the principal clarinetist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1970 to 1993.
Alfred J. Gallodoro, was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, who performed from the 1920s up until his death. He is notable for having played lead alto sax with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and bass clarinet for 12 years with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. Bandleader Jimmy Dorsey praised him as "the best sax player who ever lived."
Sharon Kam ; born August 11, 1971, is an Israeli–German clarinetist. She won the ARD International Music Competition in 1992.
The Diapason d'Or is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of Diapason magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the British Gramophone magazine.
Håkan Rosengren is a Swedish clarinet virtuoso, active in the United States and Europe.
Alessandro Carbonare is an Italian clarinetist.
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".
Yona Ettlinger was a clarinetist who played and taught in Israel, France and England. Ettlinger is considered a prominent classical clarinetist of his generation, and one of Israel's notable instrumentalists. His musicianship and unique sound influenced the art of clarinet playing in Israel and Europe in the second half of the 20th century. Many clarinet soloists and orchestra players of different countries were among his students.
Leonard Hokanson was an American pianist who achieved prominence in Europe as a soloist and chamber musician.
Igor Zubkovsky is a Russian cellist.
David Hattner is an American professional clarinetist and conductor currently serving as music director of the Portland Youth Philharmonic. Raised in Toledo, Ohio, Hattner attended the Interlochen Arts Camp and Arts Academy, experiences which inspired him to become a professional musician and conductor. He graduated from the Arts Academy in 1986 and enrolled in Northwestern University where he studied clarinet performance under Robert Marcellus. In 1988 he placed second in the International Clarinet Association's Young Artist Competition and was selected to join the American-Soviet Youth Orchestra. He earned a music degree with honors in 1990.
Georges Grisez was a French-born American clarinetist. He was an active soloist, recording artist, and orchestral musician.
William Duncan McColl was an American clarinetist and professor of music.
Pablo Barragán is a Spanish clarinetist. He began his career as a member of the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, and then made an international career as a soloist, especially as a chamber musician. His recordings include the clarinet sonatas and Clarinet Trio by Johannes Brahms, and chamber music of the 20th century including Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Kammerkonzert for clarinet, string quartet and string orchestra.
