Michele Zukovsky (née Bloch) is an American clarinetist and longest serving female woodwind player in the history of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, serving from 1961 at the age of 18 until her retirement on December 20, 2015.
[1][2] Since ending her decade's-long tenure with USC Thornton School of Music in 2017, Zukovsky has served as an applied faculty member at Azusa Pacific University School of Music in California.
Through Gregory, she is also the aunt of author, graffiti artist, academic, and urban theorist Stefano Bloch.
She is related through her mother Frances to famed violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz.
Zukovsky has performed worldwide, including with the Boston Pops, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, the Lincoln Center Chamber Players, and at the Mostly Mozart Festival.