David Shifrin
As a clarinetist and teacher of that instrument, David Shifrin is among the finest. While serving as artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he has helped maintain and develop one of his country's most prestigious musical bodies. A passionate servant of new music, he has engaged a series of composers into building a body of healthy supplements to the clarinet repertoire. Shifrin is simply one of those people whose name always seems to pop up whenever and wherever something exciting is happening in the world of American classical music.
Born in New York City in 1950, Shifrin attended that city's High School of Performing Arts and then, from 1965 to 1967, the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. He studied at the Curtis Institute until 1973 and then played clarinet in a succession of high-profile American orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, all the while building an equally high-profile solo career for himself. Beginning in 1981, Shifrin served as artistic director of Portland's Chamber Music Northwest. In 1989, he was invited to join the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and three years later he took up its directorship, a position he held until 2004. Among the prominent American composers from whom he has commissioned scores are John Corigliano, John Adams, Joan Tower, and Stephen Albert.
Shifrin has taught at the University of Michigan (1976-1982), the Cleveland Institute of Music (1974-1976, coincident with the Cleveland Orchestra job), the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the Juilliard School, and Yale University (1987-). In 2008, Shifrin was named artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Yale and Yale's Carnegie Hall concert series.
The majority of his recordings have been on the Delos label, including the 2019 release Spring Forward: Music for Clarinet and String Quartet. He has also recorded for EMI, Aleph, and Deutsche Grammophon, among others. He has been nominated for three Grammy awards and won Record of the Year from Stereo Review magazine for his 1985 recording of Mozart clarinet works.
Shifrin's many honors include an Avery Fisher Career Grant (1987), an Avery Fisher Prize (2000), and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Clarinet Quintets for Our Time
David Shifrin, Dover Quartet, Harlem Quartet
Chamber Music - Released by Delos on 4 Oct 2019
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto & Chamber Music with Clarinet
Chamber Music - Released by Delos on 20 Apr 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Spring Forward
David Shifrin, Miro Quartet, Dover Quartet, Jasper String Quartet
Chamber Music - Released by Delos on 8 Mar 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
BRAHMS, J.: Clarinet Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / SCHUMANN, R.: Fantasiestucke (Shifrin) (Johannes Brahms - Robert Schumann)
Classical - Released by Delos on 1 Jan 1988
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Cave of Wondrous Voice
Classical - Released by Delos on 1 May 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
David Shifrin & Friends
Concertos - Released by Delos on 3 Jul 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
MOZART, W.A.: Clarinet Concerto in A major / Clarinet Quintet in A major (Shifrin) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Concertos - Released by Delos on 1 Jan 1985
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart / Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
Emerson String Quartet, David Shifrin
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Music for Winds
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on 11 Oct 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Clarinet Trios
David Shifrin, David Finckel, Wu Han
Classical - Released by ArtistLed on 25 Oct 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
American Chamber Music (Chamber Music Northwest - David Shifrin, direction)
Classical - Released by Delos on 1 Jan 1991
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Weber, C.M. Von: Clarinet Music - Opp. 33, 34, 48 (Carl Maria von Weber)
Classical - Released by Delos on 1 Jan 1997
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Drattell: Sorrow is not Melancholy
Seattle Symphony, David Shifrin, Scott Goff, Gerard Schwarz
Classical - Released by Naxos on 17 Nov 1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart Collection - Clarinet Concerto and Miscelaneous
Hamburg Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, David Shifrin
Classical - Released by Piros - Send on 25 Apr 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Turning Into Song
David Shifrin, Susannah Woodruff, Yevgeny Yontov
Classical - Released by Musica Solis on 25 Aug 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Music Of Ezra Laderman, Vol. 8
Classical - Released by Albany Records on 1 Dec 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: Five Trios, Volume II
Golub Kaplan Carr Trio, David Shifrin
Classical - Released by Arabesque Recordings on 1 Jan 1989
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Please Take My Words
David Shifrin, Susannah Woodruff, Yevgeny Yontov
Classical - Released by Musica Solis on 4 Aug 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Would That I Were Edna St. Vincent Millay
David Shifrin, Susannah Woodruff, Yevgeny Yontov
Classical - Released by Musica Solis on 16 Jun 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo