David Krakauer

Clarinetist David Krakauer can be an accomplished performer and composer in classical music, jazz, and klezmer-based music. After completing his master’s level at Juilliard — where he analyzed under Leon Russianoff — Krakauer analyzed at Sarah Lawrence University as well as the Paris Conservatory. During his early twenties, he previously turned from playing jazz to spotlight his classical profession. Krakauer continued to record for the non-esuch, Xenophile, Eva, Opus One, and CRI brands. He has used the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, John Cage, the Kronos Quartet, and different additional chamber music organizations. Krakauer offers performed many single shows and provided residency workshops with the Affiliate Performers program as well as the Concert Performers Guild. Before, Krakauer is a person in the clarinet and chamber music faculties from the Manhattan College of Music, the Mannes University of Music, and Queens University. He has made up functions for NewBand, the Helps Quilt Songbook, in addition to his own single shows. A concert of particular notice was his single overall performance of Luciano Berio’s famously hard clarinet Sequenza for an target audience that included Berio himself. Krakauer also performed with Itzhak Perlman for klezmer’s debut on David Letterman. Within the ’80s, Krakauer started playing klezmer for the very first time (although he grew up inside a musical house, he didn’t hear klezmer as a kid); this got him back to improvising, and quickly he was composing a freestyle klezmer that mixed traditional forms with a number of jazz (actually funk) affects, and explored the options from the clarinet. An associate from the Klezmatics through their 1st three albums, Krakauer continued to business lead Klezmer Madness which experienced two produces in the past due ’90s around the Tzadik label.