Professor of Music
College of Letters & Science | Mead Witter School of Music
Hometown: Rochester, NY
Edward Klorman is a violist and scholar active at the intersection of music analysis, historical musicology, and music performance. He is the author of Mozart’s Music of Friends: Social Interplay in the Chamber Works and Bach: The Cello Suites, both from. Cambridge University Press. An accomplished violist specializing in chamber music, he has performed as guest artist with the Borromeo, Orion, and Ying Quartets and with the Lysander Trio and was founding co-artistic director of ChamberFest Canandaigua. He has published and lectured widely at conservatories, universities, and music festivals across North America, Europe, and Asia. Prior to his appointment as Professor of Music at University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music, he previously taught at The Juilliard School and McGill University.
Talks:
Mozart's Music of Friends
The string quartet is often compared to an intimate conversation among sophisticated individuals. How might Mozart’s relationships with friends and familiars have been woven into the music he composed for them? How can we experience this music as a form of intimate social interplay?
Exploring Bach's Cello Suites
Once dismissed as curiosities, Bach’s Cello Suites are today hailed as exquisite concert music. We will follow the Cello Suites from their narrow circulation among Bach’s students to their present-day global resonance, influencing not only concert life but also culture and media from Ingmar Bergman films to anime and K-drama.