Franklin Cohen

Cohen gave more than 200 soloist performances with the orchestra, including at Carnegie Hall under Vladimir Ashkenazy.^[3] His Deutsche Grammophon recording of Debussy's Première rhapsodie conducted by Pierre Boulez received two Grammy Awards in 1996,^[4] and he was the first clarinetist to win the ARD International Music Competition, in 1968.^[5] He is also a co-founder of ChamberFest Cleveland, a summer chamber music festival, and is head of the Clarinet Department at the Cleveland Institute of Music.^[6] He has recorded, for Decca Records, a disc of Brahms and Schumann with Vladimir Ashkenazy at the piano,^[7] the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with conductor Christoph von Dohnányi,^[8] and the Brahms Clarinet Trio with Ashkenazy and cellist Stephen Geber.^[9]