William McColl is an American clarinetist and professor of music.

Education

His primary teachers have included

Leopold Wlach Leopold Wlach (9 September 1902 – 7 May 1956) was an Austrian clarinetist and clarinet teacher. He was solo clarinetist at the Vienna State Opera/with the Vienna Philharmonics. Life Born in Vienna, Wlach first studied clarinet at the Vienna M ...

at the

Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817. With a student body of over three thousa ...

in Vienna (known from 1970 to 1998 as the Hochschule für Musik and today as the Universität für Musik) as well as Keith Stein, George Waln and Herbert Blayman.

Career

He played

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

with the U.S. Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, the

Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra The Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) (''Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico'' in Spanish) a musical ensemble sponsored by the Government of Puerto Rico. It has 80 regular musicians from around the world performing a 52-week season which inc ...

and was a featured performer at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. As a specialist in early clarinets and

basset horn The basset horn (sometimes hyphenated as basset-horn) is a member of the clarinet family of musical instruments. Construction and tone Like the clarinet, the instrument is a wind instrument with a single reed and a cylindrical bore. Howeve ...

s, 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 The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

from 1968 to 2006. He is a founding member of the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet and of the New World Basset Horn Trio. 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", "graceful" and "virtuosic and full of life".

References

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