Bio

David Sapadin is a New York City based freelance musician known for his lyrical clarinet playing and engaging teaching style. He has played with the Metropolitan Opera, American Ballet Theater, The New York City Opera, The Knights, The Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, Albany Symphony, Princeton Symphony, Stamford Symphony, and internationally with the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

David considers teaching central to his work as an artist. He is on the faculty at Montclair State University, The Mannes School of Music, and Kinhaven Music School. As a pedagogue, he has led masterclasses across the country and teaches clarinetists from 1st grade to graduate school.

He chose to record the Brahms sonatas for the joy and challenge of communicating such a wide range of moods, from empassioned to exuberant to meditative. He is renowned for experimenting with new instrument technologies, and he enjoyed recording these sonatas on a crystal mouthpiece similar to one played on by his childhood clarinetist idol, Pete Fountain.

David studied with Yehuda Gilad, Mitchell Lurie, David Krakauer, and Ricardo Morales.