Dimitri Ashkenazy is a Swiss clarinetist, born in New York on 8 October 1969. He is the son of pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy and the brother of pianist Vladimir Sverdlov. In 1978, during his childhood, he moved with his family from Iceland to Switzerland.
From 1991, Ashkenazy gained international recognition as a clarinetist. He has performed at venues including the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Sydney Opera House and the Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris, and has appeared at the annual Salzburg Festival. His collaborations include the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague, the German Symphony Orchestra in Berlin, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. He has also worked with Peter Maxwell Davies, Krzysztof Penderecki, Edita Gruberová, Nikolai Morozov and Bernd Glemser.
His recordings include Franz Krommer’s Clarinet Concerto and Sinfonia Concertante with the Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Howard Griffiths, released in 2012. A 2011 recording features works by Mozart, Brahms, Zemlinsky and Schubert, including Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, Brahms’s Sonata Op. 120 No. 1 and Schubert’s The Shepherd on the Rock, with pianist Roland Krüger, pianist Christopher Hinterhuber, soprano Ursula Langmayr, the Acies Quartet, violist Manuel Hofer and cellist Martin Rummel.
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