About Michael Kaulkin

Michael Kaulkin is a composer of orchestral, choral and chamber works, as well as music for theater and film. His most recent orchestral work Letter to Hungary was premiered in Budapest and subsequently performed by the Mission Chamber Orchestra in San Jose, and his Misterium Tremendum was performed by the Oakland East Bay Symphony in 2003. His clarinet/piano work American Standard is included on British label Clarinet Classics' 2007 release "Time Pieces: 60 Years of American Music". Kaulkin lives in Oakland, California and is on the Prep faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he received his Master of Music degree after a period of study at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary. Detailed bio...

What's New

Private Teaching Studio Now Open: Sight Reading, Theory and Composition

I am now offering private and group lessons in Oakland, California. I teach sight reading following an approach that includes the necessary study of theory as well as composition. More details...

Recent Performances

May 9, 2009 City Walks for String Quartet (premiere)
Eidolon Quartet, Berkeley, California
May 10, 2009 American Standard for clarinet and piano
Faculty Recital
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
Julie Nishimura, piano

American Standard CD Released

Time Pieces CD Cover

American Standard (1993), for clarinet and piano, is on a new CD from the British label Clarinet Classics. Time Pieces features clarinetist Peter Furniss and pianist David Leiher Jones performing American works for that combination, including the Bernstein Sonata and works by Robert Muczynski, James Cohn, Richard Dudas, Victor Babin and myself. It's available in stores and on Amazon, etc., but being an import, the best price seems to be direct from the distributor.

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