Jörg Widmann

Jörg Widmann is equally well known as a clarinetist and composer. He is also active as a conductor and is a significant educator. Widmann was born on June 19, 1973, in Munich. He took up the clarinet in 1980 but showed a talent for composition as well and began lessons in that field with Kay Westermann. He entered the Hochschule für Musik in Munich as a clarinetist in 1986. In the mid-'90s, Widmann commuted between the U.S. and Germany, studying clarinet with Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School in New York and composition in Munich with Hans Werner Henze and Wilfried Hill...