Jonathan Cohler (born June 19, 1959) is an American classical

clarinetist This article lists notable musicians who have played the clarinet. Classical clarinetists * Laver Bariu * Ernest Ačkun * Luís Afonso * Cristiano Alves * Michel Arrignon * Dimitri Ashkenazy * Kinan Azmeh * Alexander Bader * Carl Baermann * ...

, conductor,

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and record producer.

Early career

Jonathan Cohler graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1980 with a degree in physics. He studied clarinet with Pasquale Cardillo, Harold Wright,

Karl Leister Karl Leister (born 15 June 1937) is a classical clarinet player from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. At a very young age, he learned to play the clarinet from his father, also a clarinetist, and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. As ...

Charles Neidich Charles Neidich (born 1953 in New York City) is an American classical clarinetist, composer, and conductor. Early career A native New Yorker of Russian and Greek descent, Charles Neidich began his clarinet studies with his father, Irving Neidich ...

and Frank Martin. In 1978, he won the U.S. Components, Inc. Fellowship to the

Tanglewood Music Center The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops. The center operates as a part of the Tanglew ...

(then known as the Berkshire Music Center). He also played clarinet for the Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra (now known as the

National Repertory Orchestra The National Repertory Orchestra (NRO) is an American summer symphony orchestra that offers full fellowships to train young professional musicians for careers in music through performances, masterclasses and workshops. Based in Breckenridge, Colo ...

) in 1979 under conductor Carl Topilow. He has performed at the

International Clarinet Association The International Clarinet Association is the main international organization bringing together players of the clarinet. It is based in Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Wi ...

's annual ClarinetFest (1994, 1997, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) and has appeared in the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago. His concerto appearances include

Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards f ...

's ''Introduction, Theme and Variations'' with

Boston Classical Orchestra The Boston Classical Orchestra was a chamber orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1980 by the violinist Robert Brink. The orchestra's music director was Steven Lipsitt. It performed at Faneuil Hall Faneuil Hall ( or ; p ...

under Harry Ellis Dickson (1997),

Gerald Finzi Gerald Raphael Finzi (14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was a British composer. Finzi is best known as a choral composer, but also wrote in other genres. Large-scale compositions by Finzi include the cantata '' Dies natalis'' for solo voice and ...

's ''Clarinet Concerto'' (2003) and Copland's ''Clarinet Concerto'' (2004) with the Orquesta de Cámara Municipal de Rosario in Argentina (2004), Copland's ''Clarinet Concerto'' with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall of Taiwan in Taipei (2005),

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...

's ''Clarinet Concerto'' with the Santo Andre Orchestra in Brazil (2006),

Scott McAllister Scott McAllister (born 1969) is an American composer and clarinetist. Born in Vero Beach, Florida, McAllister received a DMA from Rice University. He is particularly noted for his pieces featuring clarinet, including ''Black Dog'' (based on hard r ...

's ''Black Dog'' with the

Boston Conservatory Boston Conservatory at Berklee (formerly The Boston Conservatory) is a private performing arts conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, music, and theater. Boston Conservatory was founded ...

Wind Ensemble (2011),

Debussy (Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the ...

's ''

Première rhapsodie The ''Première rhapsodie'' (First Rhapsody), L. 116, CD. 124, by Claude Debussy is a piece for accompanied clarinet. Composed between December 1909 and January 1910, it was dedicated to the French clarinet professor Prosper Mimart. In 1909, G ...

'' with the

Orchestra (2012), the

''Clarinet Concerto'' with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro in Brasilia, Brazil (2014), and the clarinet concerti and ''Concertino'' by

Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 17865 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era. Best known for his opera ...

with the

Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra The Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra ('':hu:Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar, Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar'') is a chamber orchestra based in Budapest, Hungary. The Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra took the name of the great composer, to pay homage to the ge ...

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(2015). As a chamber musician Cohler has recorded and performed with the

Claremont Trio Claremont Trio is a New York-based piano trio including Juilliard School alumnae Emily Bruskin (violin) and Julia Bruskin (cello), and Yale School of Music alumna Sophiko Simsive (piano). The group was founded at Juilliard in 1999, and made its p ...

, violinist

Ilya Kaler Ilya Kaler (born June 2, 1963) is a Russian-born violinist. Born and educated in Moscow, Kaler is the only person to have won Gold Medals at all three of the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 1986); the Sibelius (Helsinki, 1985); an ...

,Shenton, Andrew (2008). "Towards a 'manner of realization' for Messiaen's music" in Robert Sholl (ed.)
Messiaen Studies
', pp, 185–187. Cambridge University Press. and pianists

Janice Weber Janice Weber (born 1950) is an American pianist and author. Music Born in New Jersey, Weber was a precocious musical talent, making her debut at age 12 with the orchestra at New York's Town Hall. She studied with a number of teachers and mus ...

Randall Hodgkinson Randall Hodgkinson is an American classical pianist. Education Hodgkinson obtained his Bachelor of Music degree with honors, Master of Music degree with distinction and artist diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music. He studied with ...

Judith Gordon Judith Gordon (born 1963, Baltimore, Maryland) is a concert pianist and educator. Education Gordon studied at Oberlin Conservatory and at New England Conservatory where she studied with Patricia Zander. New York debut Gordon gave her New York r ...

, and Rasa Vitkauskaite. Cohler's conducting engagements have included

Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as a major compo ...

's Fifth Symphony with the

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in Caracas, Venezuela, and Tchaikovsky's ''

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'' with the Indian Hill Orchestra (Groton, Massachusetts) and the Granite State Ballet Company of New Hampshire, and Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra with the Texas All-State Symphony Orchestra in San Antonio. For ten years, from 1996 to 2006, he was the Music Director of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra. Cohler has created and run various performing/teaching clarinet festivals since 2000 including well-known clarinetists such as

Philippe Cuper Philippe Cuper is a French clarinetist, born in Lille on 25 April, 1957. He is considered to be one of the best representatives of the current French clarinet school. Biography Studies Cuper received his early training in Marcq en Baroeul ...

(Paris Opera),

Alessandro Carbonare Alessandro Carbonare is an Italian clarinetist. Carbonare started on E clarinet at age 5. At age 21 he became co-principal of the Lyon Opera Orchestra, and later joined the Orchestre National de France. has been the principal clarinetist with the ...

(Orchestra of St. Cecilia), Ricardo Morales (Philadelphia Orchestra), Paquito D'Rivera,

Wenzel Fuchs Wenzel Fuchs (born 1963 in Innsbruck, Austria) is an Austrian clarinetist. He studied clarinet at the Innsbruck Conservatory with Walter Kefer and at the Vienna Music Academy with Peter Schmidl. He has performed with the Vienna State Opera, the Vi ...

(Berlin Philharmonic), and

Luis Rossi Luis Rossi is an internationally renowned clarinetist. He performed as Principal clarinetist in symphony orchestras throughout South America for twenty years before he founded a clarinet workshop in Santiago, Chile, in 1986. Since then he has also f ...

(Chile). These include the International Clarinet Connection (2000, 2001), the International Clarinet and Saxophone Connection (2002), and the International Woodwind Festival (2005, 2007, 2010, 2012). Cohler's clarinet students have won top prizes in the Geneva International Clarinet Competition, the International AudiMozart Competition in Rovereto, Italy, the

High School Competition, the Boston Woodwind Society's Harold Wright Clarinet Merit Award, and others. Cohler has coached groups that have won prizes in the

Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition The Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition is the largest and oldest continuous chamber music competition in the United States. In 1973, Joseph E. Fischoff and fellow members of the South Bend Chamber Music Society established a competition to ...

, the Coleman Chamber Music Competition and the Chamber Music Foundation of New England Competition. Cohler has been an adjudicator for international clarinet and music competitions including the 1st European Clarinet Competition (2010), the Young Artist Competition of the

(1997, 2009, 2015), and the Canadian National Music Competition. As of 2017, he is a member of the clarinet, chamber music and conducting faculties of the

Longy School of Music Longy School of Music of Bard College is a private music school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1915 as the Longy School of Music, it was one of the four independent degree-granting music schools in the Boston region along with the New En ...

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since 1998, and the

Boston Conservatory at Berklee Boston Conservatory at Berklee (formerly The Boston Conservatory) is a private performing arts conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, music, and theater. Boston Conservatory was founded ...

since 2005. Through 2011, he was also a faculty member of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School in Boston, where in addition to teaching clarinet and chamber music, he was the assistant conductor of the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ongaku records

In the early 1990s, Cohler founded the classical music record company Ongaku Records, Inc.Kaplan, Richard (March/April 2009
"Jonathan Cohler's Ongaku Records—More than a 'Clarinet Label'"
''Fanfare Magazine'', Vol. 32, Issue 4. Retrieved September 29, 2011

Discography

*1993 ''Cohler on Clarinet'' with

(piano), recital of works by

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...

, Heinrich Joseph Bärmann, and Simon A. Sargon. Ongaku Records CD 024-101 (listed in ''The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs'' ''Yearbook 2006/7: Best Buys in Classical Music'')March, Ivan et al. (December 2006). ''The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs Yearbook 2006/7: Best Buys in Classical Music''. Penguin. pp. 525–526. *1994 ''More Cohler on Clarinet'' with

(piano), recital of works by

Francis Poulenc Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-kno ...

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...

Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions ...

, and

Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the ...

. Ongaku Records CD 024-102 (listed in '' The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs'' Yearbook 2006/7: Best Buys in Classical Music'') *1994 ''Brahms Clarinet Sonatas'' with

(piano),

(piano), recital of works by

Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams, (; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over ...

, and

. Cover CD, ''

BBC Music Magazine ''BBC Music Magazine'' is a British monthly magazine that focuses primarily on classical music. History The first issue appeared in September 1992. BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the BBC was the original owner and publisher toget ...

'', Vol. 3 No. 2, October 1994 *1994 ''Moonflowers, Baby!'' with

(piano), recital of works by

Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the ''Ne ...

Arthur Honegger Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. A member of Les Six, his best known work is probably ''Antigone'', composed between 1924 and 1927 to ...

Jean Françaix Jean René Désiré Françaix (; 23 May 1912, in Le Mans – 25 September 1997, in Paris) was a French neoclassicism (music), neoclassical composer, piano, pianist, and orchestration, orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style. ...

Eugène Bozza Eugène Joseph Bozza (4 April 1905 – 28 September 1991)Grove Music Online: "Bozza, Eugène"; accessed 20 September 2014, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/03791. was a French composer and violinist. He was one of t ...

, and

Meyer Kupferman Meyer Kupferman (July 3, 1926 – November 26, 2003) was an American composer and clarinetist. Life Meyer Kupferman was born in New York City to Jewish parents.

Crystal Records Crystal Records is an American producer and distributor of classical chamber and solo music recordings. The company was founded in 1966 by Peter George Christ (born 1938) and is incorporated in the state of Washington. Christ, who has served as p ...

CD 733 (MusicWeb International "Recording of the Month", Oct 2010) *1995 ''The Clarinet Alone'', recital of works by

Donald Martino Donald James Martino (May 16, 1931 – December 8, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer. Biography Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Martino attended Plainfield High School. He began as a clarinetist, playing jazz for fun and p ...

Egon Wellesz Egon Joseph Wellesz CBE (21 October 1885 – 9 November 1974) was an Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music. Early life and education in Vienna Egon Joseph Wellesz was ...

Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...

Erland von Koch Sigurd Christian Jag Erland Vogt von Koch (26 April 1910 – 31 January 2009) was a Swedish composer. He wrote symphonies, ballets, an opera, and other compositions, including music for film. Life and career Born in Stockholm as the son of compos ...

, William O. Smith,

Vincent Persichetti Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own wo ...

Willson Osborne Willson Osborne (1906–1979) was an American composer. After completing the undergraduate program in composition and music theory at the University of Michigan (studying with Ross Lee Finney), Osborne was a student of Paul Hindemith at Yale Unive ...

, and

Niccolò Paganini Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices f ...

. Ongaku Records CD 024-105 (nominated for a NAIRD 1995 Indie Award in the classical solo category) *1999 ''David Alpher: American Reflections'' with David Alpher (composer and piano), Maureen Gallagher (viola), Robert Honeysucker (baritone), Myron Lutzke (cello), Robert Lynam (string bass), Martha Moor (harp), Jean Newton (harpsichord),

Kenneth Radnofsky Kenneth A. Radnofsky (born July 31, 1953 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American classical saxophonist. He specializes in the alto saxophone, but plays the soprano and other sizes as well. He currently teaches at the New England Conservatory o ...

(tenor saxophone),

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

by David Alpher. Ongaku Records CD 024-112 *2004 ''Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time'' with

(violin), Andrew Mark (cello),

(piano). Ongaku Records CD 024-119 *2008 ''Rhapsodie Française'' with Rasa Vitkauskaite (piano), recital of works by

Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...

André Messager André Charles Prosper Messager (; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéra comique, opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage wo ...

Charles-Marie Widor Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (21 February 1844 – 12 March 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher of the mid-Romantic era, most notable for his ten organ symphonies. His Toccata from the fifth organ symphony has become one of the ...

Ernest Chausson Amédée-Ernest Chausson (; 20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish. Life Born in Paris into an affluent bourgeois family, Chausson was the sole surviving child of a ...

Henri Rabaud Henri Benjamin Rabaud (10 November 187311 September 1949) was a French conductor, composer and pedagogue, who held important posts in the French musical establishment and upheld mainly conservative trends in French music in the first half of t ...

Claude Debussy (Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the ...

, and

Louis Cahuzac Louis (Jean Baptiste) Cahuzac (12 July 1880 – 9 August 1960) was a French people, French clarinetist and composer. Cahuzac was an outstanding performer and one of the few clarinetists who made a career as a soloist in the first part of the ...

. Ongaku Records CD 024-121 *2009 ''Jonathan Cohler & Claremont Trio'' with

, chamber music by

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...

, and

Ernst von Dohnanyi Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975- ...

. Ongaku Records CD 024-122 (awarded the "Critic's Choice" by ''

'') *2013 ''Romanza'' with Rasa Vitkauskaite (piano), recital of transcriptions of works by

Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, p ...

, and

Carlos Guastavino Carlos Guastavino (5 April 1912 – 29 October 2000) was an Argentine composer, considered one of the foremost composers of his country. His production amounted to over 500 works, most of them songs for piano and voice, many still unpublished. ...

. Ongaku Records CD 024-123 *2014 ''American Tribute'' with Rasa Vitkauskaite (piano), recital of works by

Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first America ...

Victor Babin Vronsky & Babin were regarded by many as one of the foremost duo-piano teams of the twentieth century. Vitya Vronsky (''Viktoria Mikhailovna Vronskaya'', 22 August 190928 June 1992) was born in the Crimean city of Yevpatoria, Russia. Victor Babin ...

Robert Muczynski Robert Muczynski (March 19, 1929 – May 25, 2010) was a Polish-American composer. Muczynski studied piano with Walter Knupfer and composition with Alexander Tcherepnin at DePaul University in Chicago, where he received both his Bachelor of M ...

Simon Sargon Simon Sargon (6 April 1938 Bombay, India - 25 December 2022 Kensington, Maryland) was an American composer, pianist, and music educator of Israeli and Indian descent. He studied at Brandeis University and at the Juilliard School under Sergius Ka ...

Dana Wilson Dana Richard Wilson (born 1946) is an American composer, jazz pianist, and teacher. He grew up in Wilton, CT, and holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College, an M.A. from the University of Connecticut, and a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music. ...

, and Paquito D'Rivera. Ongaku Records CD 024-125 *2016 ''Cohler plays and conducts Weber'' with Jonathan Cohler (conductor), Rasa Vitkauskaite (piano),

, playing and conducting clarinet concerti, overtures, and ''Polonaise brillante'' by

. Ongaku Records CD 024-126 *2020 ''Cohler plays and conducts Mozart'' with Jonathan Cohler (conductor/clarinetist), Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, including Clarinet Concerto in A Major, KV 622, Symphony No. 35 in D Major, KV 385 ("Haffner") , and the overtures to Don Giovanni, KV 527 and The Magic Flute, KV 620 by

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

. Ongaku Records CD 024-128 *2020 ''Rasa Vitkauskaite plays Mozart & Beethoven Concertos'' with Rasa Vitkauskaite (pianist), Jonathan Cohler (conductor),

, Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, including Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, KV 466 by

and Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 by

. Ongaku Records CD 024-129 *2021 ''Latin Journey'' with Rasa Vitkauskaite (piano), recital of works by

Arturo Márquez Arturo Márquez Navarro (born 20 December 1950) is a Mexican composer of orchestral music who uses musical forms and styles of his native Mexico and incorporates them into his compositions. Life Márquez was born in Álamos, Sonora, in 1950 wher ...

, Paquito D'Rivera, and

Alberto Ginastera Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (; April 11, 1916June 25, 1983) was an Argentinian composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical composers of the Americas. Biography Ginastera was born in Buen ...

. Ongaku Records CD 024-130

References

External links

Jonathan Cohler official website

From our Studios: Clarinetist Jonathan Cohler and pianist Rasa Vitkauskaite
on

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Radio. Recorded live on January 21, 2009.
New Classical Tracks: Clarinetist Jonathan Cohler
by Julie Amacher on

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. March 24, 2009.
How to establish a career as a clarinet soloist
interview with Jenny Maclay on Vandoren/DANSR website. January 20, 2017. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cohler, Jonathan 1959 births Living people Musicians from Boston Longy School of Music of Bard College faculty Boston Conservatory at Berklee faculty American classical clarinetists American male conductors (music) American music educators Record producers from Massachusetts Contemporary classical music performers People from Lexington, Massachusetts Classical musicians from Massachusetts 21st-century American conductors (music) 21st-century clarinetists 21st-century American male musicians Harvard College alumni