Clarinetist David Shifrin is Artistic Director of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon. Currently Professor of Music at Yale University, he has served on the faculties of The Juilliard School, the University of Southern California, the University of Michigan, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Hawaii. Mr. Shifrin was appointed Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in March 1992. He was honored by the Society in fall 2001 when he opened the season as featured soloist in an all-Mozart program.

Mr. Shifrin continues to garner honors and esteemed positions in his field. In 2000 he received the prestigious Avery Fisher prize, and was a recipient of a Solo Recitalists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

In addition to his chamber music performances, Mr. Shifrin is an eagerly sought concerto soloist, and has the distinction of regularly performing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in its original version on a specially built basset clarinet. The Delos recording by Mr. Shifrin and the Mostly Mozart Festival orchestra of this same work received a Record of the Year award from Stereo Review. David Shifrin was a founding member of Music of Remembrance’s Advisory Board.