Rothenberg’s music connects the living sounds of the natural world to the traditions of global rhythmic innovation and improvisation.  Inspired by the melodies and beats of birds, insects, whales, water, and wind, he blends spontaneous musical inventiveness with a sense of rhythm, exuberance, and the listening to nature.
 
His book and CD Why Birds Sing have received much attention in the USA, England, and Australia.  The book is soon to come out in Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Korean.  It is being developed into a BBC television series. Rothenberg has performed many concerts of his music interwoven with natural sounds all over the world.
 
As a clarinetist DAVID ROTHENBERG has performed and recorded with Marilyn Crispell, Barry Guy, Hamid Drake, Glen Velez, Karl Berger, Ray Phiri, Nils Økland, and the Karnataka College of Percussion.  He has seven CDs out under his own name, including "On the Cliffs of the Heart," named one of the top ten releases of 1995 by Jazziz magazine.   He is the author of several previous books on music and nature, including Sudden Music and The Book of Music and Nature.

You may hear examples of the music at www.whybirdssing.com.
 
 
WHAT CRITICS HAVE SAID ABOUT DAVID ROTHENBERG’s music:
 
     "Genuine 21st century music."
                               —The Guardian (UK)
  
    "Stunning virtuosity."
                                —Milo Miles, Fresh Air, NPR
 
     "A sense of virtuosity traveling
     all over the world."
                       — John Cage
  
    "Only one word suffices to describe the sounds emerging
      from David Rothenberg's CD Why Bird Sing: sublime.
     This is music that transports you to another world."
                       —Discover Magazine