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 Yo...