A virtuoso clarinettist with the famous Klezmatics, David Krakauer is today one of the most emblematic and talented figures of the truly New York movement of new Klezmer music, dedicated to reviving an ancestral tradition, naturally open to the most diverse musical influences. There is an authentic modernity in this fascinating way of pointing to a certain spiritual as well as aesthetic filiation between a traditional folk music, 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.