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Alexander Fiterstein
Clarinet

Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein is in demand both in the U.S. and abroad. As a chamber musician, he has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, at the Caramoor Festival, the Great Lake’s Chamber Music Festival, New York’s Bargemusic, Concerts at the Point (MA), and collaborated with the Mendelssohn and Chiara String Quartets. He has made regular appearances at the Marlboro Music Festival since 2001 and toured with “Musicians from Marlboro” in 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. In 2000, Mr. Fiterstein toured the U.S. with soprano Roberta Peters and pianist Warren Jones performing Schubert’s Shepherd on the Rock, of which the Knoxville News-Sentinel wrote, “Especially due to Fiterstein’s intuitive and sensitive conversational playing, it was of such rare beauty, if there had been nothing else, this one piece would have been worth the ticket price.”


Photo courtesy of www.yca.org	Alexander Fiterstein Clarinet Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein is in demand both in the U.S. and abroad. As a chamber musician, he has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, at the Caramoor Festival, the Great Lake’s Chamber Music Festival, New York’s Bargemusic, Concerts at the Point (MA), and collaborated with the Mendelssohn and Chiara String Quartets. He has made regular appearances at the Marlboro Music Festival since 2001 and toured with “Musicians from Marlboro” in 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. In 2000, Mr. Fiterstein toured the U.S. with soprano Roberta Peters and pianist Warren Jones performing Schubert’s Shepherd on the Rock, of which the Knoxville News-Sentinel wrote, “Especially due to Fiterstein’s intuitive and sensitive conversational playing, it was of such rare beauty, if there had been nothing else, this one piece would have been worth the ticket price.”
His performances as soloist with orchestra in the U.S. have included the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Albany (GA) Symphony, the Fargo-Moorhead (ND) Symphony, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony, the Bangor (ME) Symphony, and the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle (NC). He has performed abroad with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Odense Symphony (Denmark), and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and in Asia with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Beijing National Symphony. Mr. Fiterstein has worked closely with and performed the works of such distinguished composers as John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov and Betty Olivero. He has given the premieres of pieces by Samuel Adler, Mason Bates, and the U.S. premiere of Henrik Strindberg’s Clarinet Concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra at the 2000 FOCUS Festival in New York. The Young Concert Artists Series presented Mr. Fiterstein’s debut recitals the 92nd Street Y in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, as well as a chamber music concert at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. He has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. giving recitals and educational residencies. Abroad, he has played at the Louvre in Paris, in England, Holland, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Japan and Korea. Mr. Fiterstein won the 2001 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. That same year, he won First Prize in the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition, as well as Special Prizes for the Best Interpretation of a Danish Work and Best Performance with the Odense Symphony Orchestra. He also won the 2000 Francois Schapira Prize for Woodwinds and the prize for Best Performance of an Israeli Composition at the 2000 Aviv Israel Competition for Young Musicians, First Prize at the Paul Ben-Haim Competition in Israel, and the 1999 Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award in Japan. Mr. Fiterstein has received scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation since 1991. Fiterstein was born in Minsk in the former Soviet Union and immigrated with his family to Israel when he was two years old. He studied at the Israel Arts and Science Academy and received his high school diploma from the Interlochen Arts Academy. He holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Graduate Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he worked with Charles Neidich. Bio courtesy of www.yca.org.