William McColl (clarinetist)
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William D. McColl is an American clarinetist. His primary teachers have included Leopold Wlach at the State Academy of Music in Vienna (known today as the Hochschule) as well as Keith Stein, George Waln and Herbert Blayman.
He played clarinet with the U.S. Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and was a featured performer at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico[1] . As a specialist in early clarinets and basset horns, he has done international tours, recordings and concert appearances with the Amadeus Winds, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, among others. He was professor of clarinet at the University of Washington from 1968-2006.
He is a founding member of the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet and of the New World Basset Horn Trio[2]. He has recorded solo and chamber works on Musical Heritage, and Crystal labels (with the Soni Ventorum), as well as on the Atlantic, Decca and Harmonia Mundi labels.
McColl has been heralded as a "superb clarinetist"[3], "graceful"[4] and "virtuosic and full of life" [5]
References
- ^ Smith, Sidney Bertram (2005). Classical Musicians Speak Out as a New Century Begins. Cambridgeshire, UK: Melrose Press Limited. p. 127. ISBN 1 905226 02 0.
- ^ "http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900520&slug=1072926". Seattle Times Company. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
{{cite web}}: External link in|title= - ^ Rivers, Travis (September 14, 1982). "Schubert Sings On". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ Bargreen, Melinda (June 5, 1990). "Ridge String Quartet Has Soothing Appeal". Seattle Times. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ Bargreen, Melinda (May 24, 2001). "CD releases: Classical NW performers offer plenty of good choices". Seattle Times. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
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