ALEXANDER FITERSTEIN has been appointed to the clarinet faculty at Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory beginning with the 2017-18 academic year. He has appeared widely as a clarinet soloist and chamber musician, is a prolific recording artist, and has served as clarinet professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the University of Minnesota. Fiterstein won first prize in the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. A native of Belarus raised in Israel, he holds a degree from the Juilliard School. 
Posted January 13, 2017