AUTHENTIC WEDDING MUSIC
“David Krakauer is the most extraordinary clarinetist playing today— not only in the U.S. but worldwide— and his talent is matched only by his warmth, kindness and lovely manner. I can’t say enough how much joy his music brought to our party and how much fun we all had dancing the night away!” - Beth and David, New York, N.Y.
David Krakauer returns to his roots, providing a magical, explosive hora set that will get any wedding party unable to do anything but dance up a storm.
Widely considered one of the greatest clarinetists on the planet with his own unique sound and approach, he has been praised internationally as a key innovator in modern klezmer as well as a major voice in classical music. One of the world’s most recognizable musicians playing Jewish music today, he burst onto the scene in the late 1980s as an early member of the Klezmatics, touring Europe and North America with them and recording 2 seminal albums before branching out on his own as an exhilarating bandleader with groups such as Klezmer Madness!, Ancestral Groove and Abraham Inc.
A hora by David Krakauer is an experience that anybody who has ever witnessed will never forget
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ABOUT DAVID KRAKAUER
“Ebullient clarinet wizard” - TimeOut NY
Widely considered one of the greatest clarinetists on the planet with his own unique sound and approach, Grammy & Juno-nominated David Krakauer has been praised internationally as a key innovator in modern klezmer as well as a major voice in classical music. One of the world’s most recognizable musicians playing Jewish music today, he burst onto the scene in the late 1980s as an early member of the Klezmatics, touring Europe and North America with them and recording 2 seminal albums before branching out on his own as an exhilarating bandleader with groups such as Klezmer Madness!, Ancestral Groove and Abraham Inc. He collaborates with major symphony orchestras and conductors around the world, as well as working with groups such as the Kronos, Emerson and Tokyo String Quartets.
His work has been recognized by major publications around the world. He received a Grammy nomination, received the Diapason D’Or in France and album of the year award for the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for The Twelve Tribes (Label Bleu). Abraham Inc’s Tweet Tweet (co-led by Krakauer with funk legend Fred Wesley and renegade beat architect/ multi-instrumentalist Socalled) peaked at #1 in Funk and #1 in Jewish and Yiddish Music, and #35 in music sales on Amazon and was featured at #40 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart for fastest sellers. He has also recorded with violinist Itzhak Perlman/The Klezmatics (Angel) and Dawn Upshaw/Osvaldo Golijov (Deutsche Grammophon).
His unique sound can be heard in Danny Elfman’s score for the Ang Lee film Taking Woodstock and throughout Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson, and has composed music for the films Minyan by Eric Steel and Jeremy Kagan’s Haftorahs. He has been profiled by media such as NPR, PBS, New York Times, New Yorker, Arte Music, Mezzo, Telerama, France Musique and many more.
“With a magical clarinet David summoned the guests up from the celebratory banquet into klezmer's celebration. Little did we know how many past generations he had also summoned who awaited us on the dance floor lifting our bride's and groom's chairs into the chandeliers.”
- Susan and Owen, New York, N.Y.
(to read more about their wedding and the magic of David’s Klezmer see
“Marriage Map” by Owen Lewis, Dos Madres Press, 2017)
“The genre-fluid clarinet genius David Krakauer” - NPR Music
“Discovering [klezmer] changed everything for me. It really did. Because I just fell madly in love with the music. Listening to David Krakauer had a tremendously powerful effect [on me]. It helped me discover Yiddish again, which was hugely important.”
— Tony Kushner, Playwright & Screenwriter
Krakauer’s playing is transportive, it knocks on the door of mystical consciousness but then you want to clap your hands and stomp your feet and shout... To listen to David Krakauer is to hear humility in the face of a great and lasting tradition while witnessing the essential rebellion that keeps culture moving, adapting, insisting.”
— Peter Bebergal, author of Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood