Book David Shifrin

David Shifrin is an American clarinetist and artistic director whose career spans the concert hall, the studio and the classroom, including the University of Michigan. Trained at the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Music Academy of the West, he earned his Curtis Institute of Music degree in 1971 after studying with Anthony Gigliotti. Shifrin has performed concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Seattle Symphony and Detroit Symphony, and with orchestras across Europe and Asia. He commissioned and premiered a Stephen Albert concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra in its 1991-1992 season and premiered Ezra Laderman's clarinet concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony in 1995. In 1984 he had a basset clarinet built so he could perform Mozart's concerto and quintet as originally written, and his 1985 Mozart recording was named Record of the Year by Stereo Review. His seventeen studio albums include Beethoven in New York (1996), Joan Tower Concertos (1997), Five American Clarinet Quintets (1998), Shifrin Plays Schifrin (2006) and Spring Forward (2019), and he has earned two Grammy nominations. As a recitalist he has appeared at Alice Tully Hall, Zankel Hall and the Library of Congress.