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David Blumberg - Acclaimed Performer and Pedagogue; Principal Clarinetist of the Seabrook Opera, Clarinet Instructor for the Philadelphia International Music Festival, Recording Producer,
email: Davidcblumberg@gmail.com
Biography
David Blumberg has had quite an
active, and diverse musical experience as a Performer, Instructor, and Reed
Clinician..
He is Principal Clarinetist of the
Seabrook Opera, and a 1st Clarinet Section Member of "WindWorks of Washington",
D.C. - a Professional "National Band" featuring members of the big 4 D.C.
Service Bands, members of the National Symphony, and special invited guests from
across the USA. My Blumberg is the Clarinet Instructor for the Philadelphia
International Music Festival featuring Philadelphia International Music Festival
featuring Philadelphia Orchestra Members as it's Faculty
http://www.PIMF.org
. His students have won numerous competitions including 1st Runner up of the
International Clarinet Association Young Artist Competition, 2nd Prize in the
2012 International Clarinet Association's Orchestral Audition Competition, 1st
Prize Wind Category in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the
Interlochen Michigan Music Festival Concerto Competition, the Matinee Music
Society Competition (Curtis Institute), and the U.S. Air Force Band competition.
He taught the only Wind Finalist in the 1991, and 1992 Philadelphia Orchestra
Student Soloist Competition. His students have been featured on WFLN-FM
Philadelphia Classical Radio in the “Live from the Settlement School”
Broadcasts.. He has taught numerous 1st Chair Pennsylvania All State Band
Clarinetists.
As a Music Producer, he Produces the Recordings of the Principal Clarinetist of
the Los Angeles Philharmonic Michele Zukovsky, among other Notable Classical
Music Artists from the US as well as Europe.
He has collaborated with Toronto Symphony Principal Clarinetist Avrahm Galper on
the book “The Upbeat Baermann Scale Studies” which are used by several major
Universities. David holds the distinction of being the youngest Clarinet teacher
to ever have a student as a winner of the International Clarinet Association's
Young Artist Competition (at 28 years old in 1992). David can be heard
performing as Principal Clarinetist in the Seabrook Opera, and also as 1st
Clarinet with the WindWorks of Washington D.C.. He has performed as Principal
Clarinetist with the Riverside Symphonia, the Harrisburg Symphony, Garden State
Philharmonic, and the Princeton Chamber Orchestra.
He studied with Anthony Gigliotti for 7 years (at Temple University where he got
his Orchestral Performance Degree), and was one of the 2 American Clarinetist's
selected to participate in the 1988 Robert Marcellus Scotia Music Festival in
Halifax, Nova Scotia. He gave the Philadelphia Premiere of the T.C. David Trio
#1 for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano in 1985 with Asst. Concertmaster of the
Philadelphia Orchestra Nancy Bean. He was the Principal Clarinetist for the 1987
Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestral Seminar. Mr. Blumberg studied Chamber
Music under Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Murray Panitz, Bernard Garfield,
Richard Woodhams, Anthony Gigliotti, and Smithsonian Chamber Player Lambert
Orkis.
At Temple University, as an Undergraduate Student, was selected to perform in
several Doctoral Woodwind Ensembles. David was a winner of the WFLN - FM Radio
Concerto Competition, 1st Prize Grahm-Stahl Concerto Competition, the Delaware
Council for the Arts Music Competition, the Delaware Council for the Arts Music
Competition, the Lansdowne Symphony Concerto Competition, and the Tri-State
Winner of the Omega Psi Phi Foundation Music Competition.
At Temple
University, he studied Pedagogy under Alexander Fiorillo (one of Vladimir
Horowitz’s only 5 students). Additional studies with Juilliard Faculty Joe
Allard, Charles Neidich and David Shifrin. He has performed in Master Classes
with Mitchell Lurie, Leon Russianoff, David Shifrin, Paul Meyer, and Joaquin
Valdepenas
Mr. Blumberg has been on the Roster
as a Performing Artist for the Rico International Reed Company since 1993,
performing on the Rico Reserve Reeds exclusively, and aided in the development
of that reed.
http://www.PhiladelphiaMusicFestival.org
is the Summer Music Festival he is the Clarinet/Sax Faculty of.
New Information Under development
Message from David Blumberg
Agendas and Performance and Teaching Philosophy
www.MyTempoMusic.com/Williams.htm
Upcoming Events and Workshops
Recordings
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