William King - clarinetist

William King is a clarinetist with the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra. He has performed and toured for ten years with the Pittsburgh Symphony and has played
with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and the Phoenix Orchestra. He held tenured positions in the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Orchestra where he was Principal Clarinet
for four seasons, the Illinois Symphony, and the Sinfonia da Camera of the University of Illinois. He frequently performs with the orchestras of Windsor (Canada), Ann
Arbor and Flint, Michigan, and is Principal Clarinet with the Adrian Symphony Orchestra in Michigan. He has appeared as soloist with the Sinfonia da Camera, (Champaign), the Prairie Ensemble (Urbana), the Millikin Symphony Orchestra (Decatur), the Oakland Symphony and the Hillsdale College Community Orchestra,
both in Michigan.

He was featured in two recitals at the 29th Annual Conference of the International Double Reed Society held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and performed for four years as the clarinetist with the Con Spirito Woodwind Quintet, including a month-long tour of the People’s Republic of China in 1987.

He is Adjunct Professor of Clarinet at Hillsdale College and is the Coordinator of Woodwind Chamber Music at the University of Michigan School of Music. Other teaching appointments have included Millikin University, the University of Illinois, Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, the University of
Northern Colorado, Ithaca College, and the University of Pittsburgh.

Bill lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, Oboist Nancy Ambrose King, and their two sons Ryan and Trevor.