He has performed with such groups and artists as Vulfpeck, Tarras Band, Geoff Berner, Socalled, Adrienne Cooper, Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird and Michael Winograd and the Honorable Mentshn.
[3][4] He studied under Hankus Netsky at the New England Conservatory of Music and privately with clarinetists Andy Statman, Sid Beckerman and Matt Darriau.
[7][8][5] Winograd relocated to Brooklyn and rose to prominence as one of the leading musicians in the Klezmer world, initially with his Michael Winograd Trio, and soon collaborated with artists such as Socalled, Frank London, Budowitz, Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Michael Alpert, and Alicia Svigals.
[9][10][11] He was strongly influenced by popular klezmer clarinetists of the mid-twentieth century, including Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras.
[5][1][13] Winograd has recorded with a number of music groups in the past two decades, and since 2008 has released more than 10 albums of his own klezmer compositions.