Clarinetist David Shifrin is sought after as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber music performer, and is a three-time Grammy Award nominee.  Artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest since 1981 and of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York from 1992 to 2004, Mr. Shifrin was co-winner of the coveted Avery Fisher Prize (along with bassist Edgar Meyer) in 2000. He has appeared with such distinguished ensembles as the Emerson, Tokyo and Guarneri string quartets, and as soloists with the symphony orchestras of Philadelphia, Minnesota, Oregon, Dallas, Houston, Milwaukee, Denver and Edmonton. A frequent guest at numerous summer festivals, Mr. Shifrin has appeared at the Santa Fe and LaJolla Chamber Music Festivals, and at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. The Delos recording by Mr. Shifrin and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto received a Record of the Year award from Stereo Review.  A resident of Connecticut and professor of music at Yale University, Mr. Shifrin has recorded for the Nonesuch, Delos, Arabesque and CRI labels.