David Shifrin, clarinet
A Yale University faculty member for two decades, clarinetist David Shifrin last year became full professor of the School of Music and artistic director of Yale's Chamber Music Society series. He is also director of Yale in New York, an on-going concert series at Carnegie Hall, which on September 26 of this year presents an homage to Beyy Goodman at Zankel Hall with Mr. Shifrin and several of his Yale graduate students and alumni as clarinet soloists. One of two wind players to have been awarded the Avery Fisher Prize since its inception, he is recipient of a Solo Recitalist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Last season he celebrated his 20th year as an Artist of the Chamber Music Society and, from 1992 to 2004, he served as its artistic director, inaugurating the CMS Two program and the annual Brandenburg Concerto concerts. Presently in his 30th year as artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, he has collaborated with the Guarneri, Tokyo, and Emerson string quartets and is a member of the Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio. His recordings have received three Grammy nominations and his performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra was named Record of the Year by Stereo Review. He has released two CDs of Lalo Schifrin's compositions, one of which was nominated for a Latin Grammy. At home with the work of such contemporary composers as John Adams, Joan Tower, Bruce Adolphe, Ezra Laderman, John Corigliano, and Bright Sheng. Mr. Shifrin commissioned a clarinet concerto from Ellen Taaffe Zwilich that he premiered with the Buffalo Philharmonic.
David Shifrin
Upcoming Appearances at Chamber Music Society:
Winds of France: 11/14/2010
Brandenburg Concertos: 12/19/2010
Brandenburg Concertos: 12/21/2010
Manifest Legacy: Beethoven/Brahms II: 2/11/2011
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photo credit: Christian Steiner