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, the tenured bass trombonist for the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, a board member of Alaska Youth Orchestras, and the founder of the new Anchorage Composers Alliance.

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. Bill returned to graduate school to study with Jorge Muñiz as the first student in the low-residency program in the Indiana University system.

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.