Los Angeles Philharmonic Principal Clarinetist MICHELE ZUKOVSKY has appeared many times as soloist with the Philharmonic, both at the Hollywood Bowl and at the Music Center. She has been a guest soloist with many orchestras around the world, including the world premiere performance of John Williams’ Clarinet Concerto with the Boston Pops. Zukovsky also performs regularly at the Philharmonic’s Chamber Music Society concerts, and she has participated in several premieres as a soloist with the orchestra’s New Music Group.

She has collaborated with a number of chamber ensembles, most notably the Angeles and the St. Petersburg String Quartets, and she appears frequently in New York with the “Concerts at the Y,” Ravinia, Lincoln Center, and “Mostly Mozart” ensembles. Zukovsky is active as a teacher of master classes throughout the world, and she is currently on the faculty of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. She studied clarinet with her father, Kalman Bloch, himself a former principal with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.