Edward Klorman

Edward Klorman is an author, violist, and musicologist based at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Mead Witter School of Music. An accomplished violist specializing in chamber music, he has performed as guest artist with the Borromeo, Orion, and Ying Quartets and the Lysander Trio. As baroque violist, he has performed with Arion Orchestre Baroque, Berkshire Bach Society, Les Boréades de Montréal, Les Temps Perdus, and in recital with harpsichordist Hank Knox.

His first book, Mozart’s Music of Friends (Cambridge, 2016), won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, as well as the Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America and the Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory.

His second book, Bach: The Cello Suites (Cambridge, 2025), examines how the Cello Suites, once dismissed as historical curiosities, have come to occupy such a prominent place in both concert life and popular culture.

For more information, please visit www.edwardklorman.com.

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