Michele zukovsky clarinet biography of michael
Michele zukovsky clarinet biography of michael
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Michele Zukovsky
Michele Zukovsky (née Bloch) is an American clarinetist and longest serving female woodwind player in the history of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, serving from 1961 at the age of 18 until her retirement on December 20, 2015.[1][2]
Since ending her decade's-long tenure with USC Thornton School of Music in 2017, Zukovsky has served as an applied faculty member at Azusa Pacific University School of Music in California.[3]
Background
Born and raised in the Los Feliz and Franklin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, she played alongside and later succeeded her father, Kalman Bloch, as the principal clarinetist of the L.A.
Philharmonic.
Her brother Gregory Bloch (deceased 1988) 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, on "Gilda Live" on Broadway, and with the Saturday Night Live Band.
Through Gregory,