Rate My Professor David Griffiths

Griffiths has built an illustrious career in orchestral, solo, and chamber music settings. He served as Associate Principal Clarinet with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Principal Clarinet with the Macau Orchestra, and Principal Clarinet with the Shanghai Radio Orchestra. He has appeared as Guest Principal Clarinet with all of Australia’s major symphony, opera, and ballet orchestras, as well as the Australian Chamber Orchestra, New World Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, China Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and Malaysian Philharmonic. As a soloist, he has performed with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra Victoria, featuring works such as John Adams’ Gnarly Buttons Clarinet Concerto and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. A member of Ensemble Liaison and Australia Ensemble@UNSW, he curates Ensemble Liaison’s annual three-concert series at the Melbourne Recital Centre. He has collaborated with artists including Nemanja Radulović, Ray Chen, Richard Tognetti, Anthony Marwood, Henning Kraggerud, James Crabb, and Emma Matthews at festivals such as the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Port Fairy Festival, Lucerne Festival, and Pacific Music Festival. Griffiths champions new Australian music, commissioning and premiering compositions by Paul Stanhope, Ross Edwards, Stuart Greenbaum, Elena Kats-Chernin, Ian Munro, Gordon Kerry, Felicity Wilcox, Mary Finsterer, Paul Grabowsky, and Tony Gould. His recordings with Ensemble Liaison include Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time on Melba Recordings and Brahms, Beethoven, and Bruch Trios on Tall Poppies Records. He delivers masterclasses and performances across Asia, Europe, the United States, South America, the Middle East, New Zealand, and Australia.