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A virtuoso clarinetist with the famous Klezmatics, David Krakauer is today one of the most emblematic and talented figures of the distinctly New York movement of the new Klezmer music, devoted to reviving an ancestral tradition, open by nature to the most diverse musical influences. There is an authentic modernity in this fascinating way of highlighting a certain lineage, both spiritual and aesthetic, between a folk musical tradition, based on instrumental virtuosity, expressiveness, improvisation, and the most contemporary forms of current jazz, universalist in its way of embracing all cultures and integrating them by conscientiously returning to the sources of each. Magnified by the fluid, swirling phrasing in ascending arabesques of David Krakauer’s clarinet, the Klezmer tradition has never seemed so current or so close in its concerns to other contemporary music. In this creative intelligence there is a real desire to break down all barriers of genre and style, a real desire to inscribe oneself in a history, a tradition, a community in order to open up better to the world. Beyond Klezmer music, David Krakauer is also recognized for his mastery of the most varied musical genres: chamber music, avant-garde, rock, which has led him to collaborate with numerous ensembles: Kronos Quartet, Arditti String Quartet, Berlin Radio Orchestra, but also John Cage, John Zorn, to name only them