David Shifrin, clarinet
Clarinetist David Shifrin leads an engaging master class with talented students from Purchase Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, and The Juilliard School.
Recorded live on April 23, 2013 in the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio.
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Samuel Barber: Summer Music for Wind Quintet, Op. 31
Stony Brook University Laurie Baefsky, flute; Glenda Bates, oboe; Chester Howard, clarinet; Amr Selim, horn; Rachel Koeth, bassoon -
Robert Schumann: Three Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 73
Manhattan School of Music Christine Carter, clarinet; Anna Petrova, piano -
Sergei Prokofiev: Quintet in G minor for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, and Bass, Op. 39
The Juilliard School Lauren Williams, oboe; Christopher, Lee, clarinet; Mariam Machaidze, violin; Deanna Anderson, viola; Cecile-Laure Kouassi, double bass
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David Shifrin
A Yale University faculty member since 1987, clarinetist David Shifrin is artistic director of Yale’s Chamber Music Society, the Yale in New York concert series, and the Phoenix Chamber Music Festival. He has performed with CMS since 1982 and served as its artistic director from 1992 to 2004, inaugurating CMS’s Bowers Program and the annual Brandenburg Concerto concerts. He was the artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon, from 1981 to 2020. Winner of both the Avery Fisher Career Grant (1987) and the Avery Fisher Prize (2000), he is also the recipient of a Solo Recitalist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A top prize-winner in the Munich and Geneva competitions, he has held principal clarinet positions in numerous orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra and the American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski. 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. His most recent recordings are the Beethoven, Bruch, and Brahms clarinet trios with David Finckel and Wu Han on the ArtistLed label, a recording for Delos of works by Carl Nielsen, and an album of Poulenc’s music for clarinet. His 2012 Delos recording of Ellen Taaffe Zwillch’s Clarinet Concerto was chosen as culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant by the National Recording Preservation Act by the Library of Congress in 2023. Shifrin performs on clarinets made by Morrie Backun in Vancouver, Canada, and Légère synthetic reeds.