John C. Krell

John C. Krell (2 April 1914 – 10 January 1999) was an American flutist, piccoloist, author and teacher.

John Christian Krell was one of six surviving children of Adolph Jacob Krell and Flossie V. Howell Krell. Adolph was a German immigrant and became a citizen at age 21. Their children were John Christian, Eleanor, Ruth, Walter, Frederick, and Donald. Music was an integral part of their working-class upbringing in Saganaw Michigan. Adolph Krell played flute with the Saginaw Civic Symphony, the Germania Symphony, and the Orpheus Trio. He taught his son the flute beginning at age ten and John picked up the piccolo on his own at the same time.

A member of the Saginaw High Band, he was selected in 1928 to represent the school as a flutist in the National High School Orchestra, held in the Music Supervisors National Conference in Chicago, March 22–29. "He studied at Interlochen National Music Camp during the summer of 1930 and graduated from Saginaw High School in 1933."

John Krell received a bachelor of music degree from the University of Michigan in 1937. While at the University of Michigan he was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and was vice-president of his class. He then went on to study flute with William Kincaid at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1938 to 1941. While a student there he substituted with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

During the summer of 1941 John Krell toured fifty-four US cities, Canada and Mexico principal flutist for Leopold Stokowski’s All-American Youth Orchestra. The orchestra recorded many albums for Columbia Masterworks by the end of the season.

In the fall of 1941 Krell entered the Army and played flute and piccolo in the Fort Riley, Kansas band. While in the army, The Curtis Institute graduated him in 1942. After his discharge from the Army in 1946. John Krell played flute and piccolo with the National Symphony Orchestra from 1947 - 1951. During his tenure with the National Symphony, Krell met and married Marjorie Ann McCormick, who spent World War II as a member of the Office of Strategic Services and was decorated for her work by both the United States and Italy. They were married January 28, 1951 by US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.

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