Cello Master Class

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As part of the cello master class, Prof. Dr. David Geringas, a renowned cellist and conductor, shares his musical experiences and artistic perspectives with the students.

Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, cellist and conductor David Geringas ranks among today’s musical elite. An unusually broad repertoire, ranging from the earliest Baroque to contemporary music, attests to the artist’s flexibility and curiosity. His intellectual rigor, stylistic versatility, melodic sensibility, and sensuality of sound have earned him accolades around the world.
A student of Rostropovich and winner of the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition (1970), he can now look back on a career spanning several decades.

David Geringas has performed worldwide with many leading orchestras and the greatest conductors of our time. His discography, comprising nearly 100 CDs, features numerous recordings that have been honored with prestigious awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque for his recording of Luigi Boccherini’s 12 cello concertos, the Diapason d’Or d’Année for chamber music by Henri Dutilleux, the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics for his recording of the cello concertos by Hans Pfitzner, and the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics for his recording of works for cello and piano by Alfred Schnittke. David Geringas was awarded the “Echo Klassik” in 2013 and 2014. In 2013, he received the award for the best chamber music recording of the 20th/21st centuries (Braunfels/Strauss, Profil Edition Günter Hänssler) and in 2014 for the best chamber music recording of the 19th century (“Pohádka,” C2 Hamburg/ES DUR).

David Geringas was a professor at the conservatories in Hamburg (1977–1986), Lübeck (1980–2000), and at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin (2000–2009). For many decades, he led a world-renowned cello class that produced such cello stars as Gustav Rivinius, Jens Peter Maintz, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Monika Leskovar, Tatjana Vassilieva, Jing Zhao, Johannes Moser, Maximilian Hornung, and Sol Gabetta, among others.

Professor David Geringas teaches exclusively at the Blackmore International Music Academy in Berlin.

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