Undoubtedly one of the most outstanding wind instrumentalists of today, clarinetist Martin Frost future highlights include debuts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchester, Orchestre National de France, Detroit Symphony, and Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Bamberger Symphoniker, and NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, plus return visits to the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. He also returns to the Australian Chamber Orchestra following a substantial tour of Europe with th last season, and barks on a major European tour with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta performing Weber and Copland in May 2013. Last season, Martin Frostemperformed with the Wiener Symphoniker, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Minnesota Orchestra (all under Osmo Vanska), Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Gustavo Dudamel), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as well as the Tonkunstler, Oslo, and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic orchestras. In August 2012, he made his debut at New York's Mostly Mozart Festival performing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto under the direction of Louis Langree. Keen to expand the existing clarinet concerto repertoire, Martin haSempersonally championed Anders Hillborg's Peacock Tales (which incorporates elements of mime and dance), Kalevi Aho's Concerto (commissioned for him by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust) and Rolf Martinsson's Concerto Fantastique. 2012-13 sees him premiere a new concerto by Bent Sorensen with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Cologne's Philharmonie under Michael Schonwandt. A keen recitalist and chamber musician, Martin Frost gave five concerts as part of a major residency at Cologne's Philharmonie in 2010-11 including a dance program Double Points with violinist Janine Jansen. In 2011-12 Frostemperformed in venues including London's Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Berlin's Konzerthaus, and the Vienna Konzerthaus. He has a long-standing association with the Verbier Festival, and this season not only appears at the festival but also with the Verbier Festival Orchestra in Schloss Elmau and on tour around Asia. Frost regularly collaborates with such musicians as Leif Ove Andsnes, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Thorleif Thedeen, Roland Pontinen, and the Belcea and Apollon Musagete Quartets. Upcoming chamber appearances include performances at the Schubertiade and a series of concerts with Marc-Andre Hamelin and Anthony Marwood in Boston, San Francisco, and London's Wigmore Hall. Frost conducted a series of concerts with the Oslo Philharmonic last season, as well as conducting programs with Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Norrkoping Symphony orchestras, plus Swedish and Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. Future conducting dates include projects with Detroit Symphony and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Martin Frost is the Artistic Director of the Vinterfest in Mora, and of the International Chamber Music Festival in Stavanger, Norway. He has an extensive discography foR&BIS, with whom he has an exclusive contract; his recent CD, Dances to a Black Pipe, received substantial critical acclaim.