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demand as a soloist with orchestras all over
the world and appears frequently with
ensembles such as the Emerson, Guarneri
and Tokyo quartets. Among Mr. Shifrin's
recordings are the Copland Clarinet Concerto
(Angel/EMI), which received a 1989 Grammy
nomination, and the Mozart Clarinet Concerto
with the Mostly Mozart Orchestra coupled
with Mozart's Clarinet Quintet with Chamber
Music Northwest (Delos), which was named
Record of the Year by Stereo Review in 1987.
Most recently he is featured on a disc of
chamber music by Carl Maria von Weber on
Delos. Mr. Shifrin has made significant con­
tributions to the clarinet repertoire through
the commissioning and premiering of new
works by composers such as John Corigliano,
Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Peter
Schickele. Many of these works were com­
missioned by The Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center and Chamber Music
Northwest, the summer festival in Portland,
Oregon, of which Mr. Shifrin is also artistic
director. He premiered Stephen Albert's Wind
Canticle for Clarinet and Orchestra with the
Philadelphia Orchestra, Ezra Laderman's
Clarinet Concerto with the Fort Worth
Symphony, and Lalo Schifrin's Clarinet
Concerto with the Kansas City Symphony.
This season, Mr. Shifrin will premiere Bruce
Adolphe's Clarinet Concerto, commissioned
for him by the Wichita Symphony, through­
out the United States. Mr. Shifrin was a
recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant
and a Solo Recitalists Fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Arts. A member
of the faculty of Yale University, he has been
an Artist Member of the CMS since 1989.
Bass trombone virtuoso David Taylor per­
forms and records jazz, chamber music and
symphonic music with equal versatility. He
has recorded four solo albums and was the
first bass trombonist to receive the Most
Valuable Player Award from the New York
chapter of the National Academy of
Recording Arts and Sciences, which he has
won five times. Mr. Taylor received his BM
and MM degrees in music from The Juilliard
Marsalis / Stravinsky 23
School and his teaching certification from
the New York College of Music. He is cur­
rently working on his PhD in the aesthetics
of visual arts at New York University. Mr.
Taylor teaches at the Manhattan School of
Music, State University of New York at
Purchase and Mannes College of Music.
Bassoonist Milan Turkovic left his position
as principal bassoonist with the Vienna
Symphony in 1984 to devote himself com­
pletely to solo playing and teaching. Since
then he has become recognized as one of
the world's few bassoonists with an interna­
tional career. He is a member of Ensemble
Wien-Berlin—a woodwind quintet he formed
with principal players of the Berlin and
Vienna Philharmonics—and a member of
Concentus Musicus of Vienna. Mr. Turkovic
has performed as a soloist with the Mostly
Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher Hall, Chicago
Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival,
and the St. Louis Symphony. He has also
appeared at the Marlboro, Sarasota, Pacific
Music, Kusatsu (Japan), and Zurich festivals.
Mr. Turkovic conducts chamber orchestras
and large wind ensembles in Europe and
Japan and in 1997 conducted The Juilliard
Winds at Alice Tully Hall. His extensive
discography consists of fifteen solo bassoon
works, including the Carl Maria von Weber
concerti (with Sir Neville Marriner), five
Vivaldi concerti with I Solisti Italiani, and
more than 200 recordings with Concentus
Musicus. He is the only artist to have recorded
the Mozart Bassoon Concerto in four different
versions, one of which features an original
seven-key period instrument. Mr. Turkovic
is from an Austro-Croation background and
currently resides in Vienna, where for two
years he hosted a classical music program on
Austrian Television. A teacher at the Vienna
Hochschule, he has been an Artist of the
CMS since 1993.
The founding of The Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center in 1969 was the
realization of the dream of William Schuman,
Alice Tully, and Charles Wadsworth to