Roger Salander

Clarinetist Roger Salander was born in New York and has lived in Vienna since 1970. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, where he studied with Augustin Duques (clarinet) and Jean Morel (conducting). His further studies were with Stanley Drucker in New York and Alfred Prinz in Vienna. Salander is the only American clarinetist ever to have performed on a regular basis with the Vienna State Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra (1970-79) and to hold a professorship at the Konservatorium Wien (Vienna Conservatory)- 1977-2006. He has also taught at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Institut de Hautes Etudes Musicales in Montreux. Salander was an internationally acclaimed soloist from 1973 on, performing and giving master classes in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Turkey, China, Korea, Japan and Greece. His highly acclaimed recording of the Brahms Sonatas dates from the year 1992. Ten years later, he recorded the equally successful trios of Frühling and Zemlinsky (ORF CD ROMANTIC VIENNA LIVE). A long list of solo works has been dedicated to him by major composers of our time.