Composer, trombonist, and music educator Bill Klemm resides in beautiful south-central Alaska. Bill is the adjunct professor of trombone at the University of Alaska Anchorage as well as the low-brass coach for the Alaska Youth Orchestras and he frequently performs with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra and Anchorage Concert Chorus.

Bill began composing music in junior high school and he won several awards in high school. He went on to study music composition at the University of Houston primarily with Dr. Michael Horvit whose teachers included Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, and Walter Piston.

Along with those influences, Klemm’s music finds inspiration from a variety of styles and genres from sacred to secular, from old to new, and from the natural beauty of Alaska’s pristine wilderness.