Howard Klug, former featured soloist and clarinetist with the U.S. Air Force Band in Washington, D.C. is Professor of Clarinet at Indiana University's prestigious School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana. He was previously a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois and has held principal clarinet posts with the Fresno Philharmonic, Bear Valley Festival Orchestra, Sinfonia da Camera and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. We offer resell hosting with unlimited disk space

Mr. Klug is one of America's leading pedagogues. He received his M.A. from the University of Maryland in 1974 and taught at universities in Virginia, California and Illinois. He is a leader in the continuing development of an international school of clarinet playing. He held principal clarinet posts with the Fresno Philharmonic, Bear Valley Festival Orchestra, Sinfonia da Camera and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. His recitals, clinics, master classes and lectures, across a span of more than 25 years have instructed and inspired students worldwide in major centers including Great Britain's Guildhall School and Royal College of Music; Belgium's conservatories in Brussels, Ghent and Oostend; Austria's Hockschule für Musik in Vienna and Bruchner Konservatorium in Linz; Israel's Rubin Academy in Jerusalem and the Kfar Sava and Givatayem Conservatories in Tel Aviv.

Mr. Klug tours prominently also as recitalist and as soloist with symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles. His extensive chamber music and orchestral background includes affiliations with Illinois Trio, Illinois Woodwind Quintet, Chicago Ensemble, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Currently, he performs as member of two chamber groups, Trio Indiana and fourté. He is the past president of the International Clarinet Association. Mr. Klug is a frequent contributor of articles to learned musical journals. He is pedagogy editor of The Clarinet and author of numerous articles about pedagogy.

Howard Klug ~ Andrew De Grado

"Élégie is the compact disc completed only weeks before Andrew De Grado passed away in Madrid while on a European concert tour. The recording was meant to and does celebrate the clarinet, its mellifluousness and vibrancy, its ability to blend with an embracing piano. Mr. Klug decided to dedicate the recording to his partner Mr. De Grado and to release it under the reflective title of Élégie, which happens to be the concluding number in this collection but which has come to signify Mr. Klug's desire to memorialize his collaborator. Composer Andre Gretry in his Memoirs notes that the "clarinet is suited to the expression of sorrow, and even when it plays a merry air, there is a suggestion of sadness about it." Howard Klug, in planning this disc, did not have sorrow in mind. "Andy's pianism, sometimes so joyous, speaks, sings for itself. He was a joyous presence. If, like Gretry, my listeners hear a sadness, so be it, and that's not inappropriate. But I hope the recital reveals a gladness, too, of music worth hearing and a musician, a pianist, well worth hearing. Andrew De Grado was a supremely sensitive pianist, an esteemed colleague, a most caring individual, and dear friend. I greatly miss my golf buddy, Andy."