Michele Zukovsky is an American

United States

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 clarinetist.

Zukovsky is the principal clarinetist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Los Angeles Philharmonic

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September...

. She has performed with the Boston Pops, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, the Lincoln Center Chamber Players, and at the Mostly Mozart Festival. She has taught at the California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

. She currently teaches clarinet at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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. She premiered John Williams

John Williams

John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...

' Clarinet Concerto with the Boston Pops in 1991.

Family

She played along side and later succeeded her father, Kalman Bloch

Kalman Bloch

Kalman Bloch was principal clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for more than 40 years.He studied with Simeon Bellison, a notable clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic...

, as the principal clarinetist of the L.A. Philharmonic.
She is related through her mother Frances to famed violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...

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Her deceased brother Greg Bloch played violin and mandolin for the Italian rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi

Premiata Forneria Marconi

Premiata Forneria Marconi is an Italian progressive rock band. They were the first Italian group to have success abroad, entering both the British and American charts. Between 1973 and 1977 they released five albums with English lyrics...

 (PFM), the American progressive-rock bands String Cheese and It's a Beautiful Day

It's a Beautiful Day

It's a Beautiful Day is a band formed in San Francisco, California in 1967, the brainchild of violinist David LaFlamme.LaFlamme, a former soloist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, had previously been in the band Orkustra, and unusually, played a five-string violin...

, and with G.E. Smith and the Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

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Orchestra in 1978.