Martin Frost

Martin Fröst is among the world's most versatile and most widely admired clarinetists. Also a conductor, he excels in standard repertory and contemporary music, and both in performance and on recordings, he is known for devising bold, original programs and projects. Fröst was born in Sundsvall, on Sweden's east coast, on December 14, 1970. He began lessons on the violin at age five but switched to the clarinet at eight, studying with Hans Deinzer, Sölve Kingstedt, and Kjell-Inge Stevensson. In the early '90s, he was signed to the BIS label, and he has remained on that label's...