Professor of Clarinet in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington.

A former member of the US Air Force Band in Washington, D.C., where he was a featured soloist on flute, clarinet and saxophone, Howard Klug was also the principal clarinetist of the Fresno Philharmonic, Bear Valley Festival Orchestra, Sinfonia da Camera and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. He was also a member of the Columbus (OH) Symphony Orchestra and the Grant Park Symphony. Howard Klug has been a concerto soloist with the Fresno Philharmonic (on flute and clarinet), the Bear Valley Festival Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Belgian Radio Orchestra and the Kamerorkest of the Staatsacademie of Vilnius. His extensive chamber music affiliations have included the Illinois Trio, the Illinois Woodwind Quintet, the Chicago Ensemble, Trio Indiana and fourte'.

A graduate of Ohio State University (BME, clarinet) and the University of Maryland (MM, flute), Howard Klug has become a prominent pedagogue and performer throughout the US and abroad. He has appeared at various venues in England, Belgium, Austria, Israel, Mexico, Venezuela, Iceland, China, Spain and Portugal, and he regularly gives master classes in London (Royal College of Music, Guildhall School) and Vienna (Hochschule für Musik and the Vienna University).

Howard Klug has appeared as a clinician and soloist at the Midwest Clinic, CBDNA Convention, state MENC conferences and many International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests. His numerous articles on clarinet playing have appeared in The Instrumentalist, NACWPI Journal, BDGuide, Leblanc Bell and The Clarinet, where he was the Pedagogy Editor for ten years. In 1998 Howard Klug created Woodwindiana, a music publishing company dedicated to bringing out previously unpublished solo, chamber and pedagogical works for clarinet.

Howard Klug plays Luis Rossi Bb/A clarinets (Backun barrels and bell) and a Buffet Prestige bass clarinet to low C (Rossi African Blackwood bell). On Bb/A clarinets he uses David McClune mouthpieces, BG ligature (Traditional, gold plated), Vandoren V-12 or Regular #4 reeds. On bass clarinet he uses a James Pyne mouthpiece, BG ligature (Traditional, gold plated) and Vandoren 3 & 1/2 reeds.