David Geringas is a world-renowned cellist

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

 and conductor

Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

 who studied under Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

. In 1970 he won the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition

International Tchaikovsky Competition

The International Tchaikovsky Competition is a classical music competition held every four years in Moscow, Russia for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 30 years of age, and singers between 19 and 32 years of age...

. He also plays the Baryton

Baryton

The baryton is a bowed string instrument in the viol family, in regular use in Europe up until the end of the 18th century. In London a performance at Marylebone Gardens was announced in 1744, when Mr Ferrand was to perform on "the Pariton, an instrument never played on in publick before." It most...

, a rare instrument associated with music of Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...

.

Biography

Considered to be Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

's favorite pupil, he has performed all over the world as a soloist with numerous major orchestras - London Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, NHK Symphony Orchestra

NHK Symphony Orchestra

The in Tokyo, Japan began as the New Symphony Orchestra on October 5, 1926 and was the country's first professional symphony orchestra. Later, it changed its name to Japan Symphony Orchestra and in 1951, after receiving financial support from NHK, it took its current name...

 in Tokyo, Israel Philharmonic and with the greatest conductors of our time. He is a regular guest at several major chamber music festival and has a vast repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, much of which he has recorded, being awarded the Grand Prix du Disque

L'Académie Charles Cros

The Académie Charles-Cros, is an organization in France that acts as an intermediary between government cultural policy makers and professionals in music and the recording industry....

 of the Charles Cros Academy in 1989. He is a cello

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

 professor in Berlin.

Important contemporary composers such as Sofia Gubaidulina

Sofia Gubaidulina

Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...

, Pēteris Vasks

Peteris Vasks

Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer.Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, into the family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a violinist at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, as a double-bass player with Vitautas Sereikaan at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and played in several...

 and Erkki-Sven Tüür

Erkki-Sven Tüür

Erkki-Sven Tüür is an Estonian composer.Tüür was born in Kärdla on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa. He studied flute and percussion at the Tallinn Music School from 1976 to 1980 and composition with Jaan Rääts at the Tallinn Academy of Music and privately with Lepo Sumera from 1980 to 1984...

 have dedicated new compositions to Geringas. In July 2006, Anatolijus Senderovas' composition "David's Song for Cello and String Quartet" was premièred in Kronberg – a dedication to Geringas's 60th birthday.

David Geringas is one of the most versatile musicians of our time. The cellist and conductor has an unusually broad repertoire from the earliest baroque up to contemporary music. He was the first musician to play in the West works of the Russian and Lithuanian avant garde and many composers dedicated works to him. For his worldwide engagement for Lithuanian music and its composers he was awarded highest distinctions of his country. In October 2006 the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Horst Köhler

Horst Köhler

Horst Köhler is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union. He was President of Germany from 2004 to 2010. As the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties, the CDU and the CSU, and the liberal FDP, Köhler was elected to his first five-year term by the Federal Assembly on...

 awarded the "Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland" (Federal Cross of Merit) to David Geringas for his over all efforts as musician and German Cultural Ambassador to the world music scene.

Born in Vilnius

Vilnius

Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...

, Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

, David Geringas studied at the Moscow Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

 from 1963 until 1973 with Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

. In 1970 David Geringas won the First Prize and the gold medal at the Tchaikovsky competition. In 2000 he took over a professorship of cello at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. Moreover he is honorary professor at the Moscow Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

. David Geringas also heads various master-classes all over the world for the up-and-coming musicians. His students are winners of prizes and awards of international competitions.

David Geringas performed with renowned orchestras among others the Berlin and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, all German Radio Symphony Orchestras, the top orchestras in Vienna, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Warsaw, St. Petersburg and Moscow, Montreal, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Seoul. He played under conductors as Gerd Albrecht

Gerd Albrecht

Gerd Albrecht is a German conductor. He was a first-prize winner at the International Conductors Competition in Besançon at age 22. His first post was as a repetiteur at the Stuttgart State Opera. Later, he became Senior Kapellmeister at the Mainz Municipal Theatre, and Generalmusikdirektor in...

, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since 1978, because of his many obligations in Europe, he and his family have resided in Meggen, near Lucerne in Switzerland...

, Andrey Boreyko

Andrey Boreyko

Andrey Boreyko is a Russian conductor. At the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint Petersburg, he studied conducting , graduating summa cum laude...

, Myung-whun Chung

Myung-Whun Chung

Myung-whun Chung is a South Korean pianist and conductor.His sisters, violinist Kyung-wha Chung, and cellist Myung-wha Chung, and he at one time performed together as the Chung Trio. He was a joined second-prize winner in the 1974 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Chung studied conducting at...

, Charles Dutoit

Charles Dutoit

Charles Édouard Dutoit, is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music...

, Christoph Eschenbach

Christoph Eschenbach

Christoph Eschenbach , born February 20, 1940, Breslau, Germany is a German-born pianist and conductor. He currently holds positions in Washington, D.C. as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra and music director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.-Early...

, Vladimir Fedoseyev

Vladimir Fedoseyev

Vladimir Ivanovich Fedoseyev is a Russian conductor.Fedoseyev graduated from the Gnessin State Musical College 1957, and Moscow Conservatory 1972. From 1974 artistic director and chief conductor of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio 1974-1999. He has also served as principal...

, Kirill Kondrashin, Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...

, Simon Rattle

Simon Rattle

Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE is an English conductor. He rose to international prominence as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and since 2002 has been principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic ....

, Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

, Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.-Early career:...

, Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Jukka-Pekka Saraste is a Finnish conductor and violinist.Saraste was trained as a violinist. He later studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy with Jorma Panula, in the same class as Esa-Pekka Salonen and Osmo Vänskä...

, Wolfgang Sawallisch

Wolfgang Sawallisch

Wolfgang Sawallisch is a retired German conductor and pianist.-Biography:Sawallisch was born in Munich, and studied composition and pianoforte there privately: at the conclusion of the war, in 1946 he continued his studies at the Munich High School for Music and passed his final examination for...

, Yuri Temirkanov

Yuri Temirkanov

Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov is a Russian conductor of Circassian origin.Yuri Temirkanov has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic since 1988.-Early life:...

, Klaus Tennstedt

Klaus Tennstedt

Klaus Tennstedt was a German conductor from Merseburg; he conducted such orchestras as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Kiel Opera in Northern Germany; North German Radio Orchestra, in Hamburg; the Minnesota Orchestra; and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.-Life and career:He studied violin and...

 und Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is currently music director of the San Francisco Symphony, and artistic director of the New World Symphony Orchestra.-Early years:...

.

Renowned composers of contemporary music dedicated works to David Geringas, thus the Concerto in Do by Anatolijus Šenderovas, being played by David Geringas for the first time in 2002 and being awarded the European Composers Prize in Berlin, the Cello Concerto by Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...

, world premiere 2003 in the USA, the Cello Concertos by Vytautas Laurušas and by Vidmantas Bartulis

Vidmantas Bartulis

Vidmantas Bartulis is a Lithuanian composer, Recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize .-External links:*...

, world premiere 2004 respective 2005 in Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

. A special event was the world premiere of Anatolijus Šenderovas' work "David's Song for Cello and String Quartet" in July 2006 in Kronberg which the composer had written on the occasion of David Geringas' 60th birthday.

David Geringas' concerts with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra is the orchestra of the Austrian national broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk . Founded in 1969 with the name of the ORF-Symphonieorchester , it is the only radio orchestra in the country...

, the Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande is a Swiss symphony orchestra, based in Geneva at the Victoria Hall...

 and the Berner Symphonie-Orchester

Berner Symphonie-Orchester

The Berner Symphonie-Orchester is one of Switzerland's major orchestras and consists of about 100 musicians. It was founded in 1877 in the capital Bern....

, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

The claims to be the oldest classical orchestra in Japan, having been founded in Nagoya in 1911. It moved to Tokyo in 1938 and has some 166 members as of 2005....

 as well as his first performance with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is an influential orchestra in China. The music director is Long Yu.It was founded in 1879 as Shanghai Public Band, one of the earliest orchestras in Eastern Asia. It was renamed to Shanghai Municipal Council Symphony Orchestra in 1922. Starting in 1919, an Italian...

 at once being reinvited for 2007, belong among others to the highlights of the concert season 2005/2006. He was also guest at prestigious festivals in Germany, Great Britain and France this summer.
In the season 2006/2007 David Geringas will give concerts among others with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim and the Galicia Symphony Orchestra. On the occasion of D. Shostakovich's 100th Birthday David Geringas is invited by the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf to arrange and to head a weekend of several performances dedicated to the composer.

Discography

For about 50 CDs which David Geringas has up to now recorded he received a large number of distinctions, among them the Grand Prix du Disque

Grand Prix du Disque

The Grand Prix du Disque is the premier French award for musical recordings. The award was inaugurated by l'Académie Charles Cros in 1948 and offers prizes in various categories. The categories vary from year to year, and multiple awards are often made in any one category in the same year...

 for the recording of the 12 cello concerti by Luigi Boccherini

Luigi Boccherini

Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...

. His extensive discography also includes many award-winning recordings such as the chamber music by Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...

 (Diapason d'Or) or the cello concertos by Hans Pfitzner

Hans Pfitzner

Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...

 (Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik).

• Eli Zion – from St. Petersburg to Jerusalem

  Musik der Neuen Jüdischen Schule für Cello und Klavier

  Works by:

  Joseph Achron

  Joseph Achron

  Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian composer and violinist of Jewish origin, settled in USA. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develop a 'Jewish' harmonic and contrapuntal idiom, underscored and informed much of his work...

  
  , Ernst Bloch

  Ernst Bloch

  Ernst Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher.Bloch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx and, as he always confessed, by novelist Karl May. He was also interested in music and art . He established friendships with Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Theodor W. Adorno...

  
  , Sinowi Feldman, Solomon Rosowsky

  Solomon Rosowsky

  Solomon Rosowsky was a famous cantor and composer in his own right, and son of the renowned cantor of Riga, Baruch Leib Rosowsky. It is likely that Rosowsky's family is related to the Rasofsky branch of the Barney Ross family.-Early life:...

  
  , Lazare Saminsky

  Lazare Saminsky

  Lazare Saminsky, born Lazar Iosifovich Saminsky, was a performer, conductor and composer, especially of Jewish music.-Life:...

  
  , Joachim Stutschewsky

  Joachim Stutschewsky

  Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky, was a Ukraine-born Austrian and Israeli cellist, composer, musicologist.His father, Kalmen-Leyb Stutschewsky was a clarinetist.His was married twice...

  
  , Leo Zeitlin

  with Jascha Nemtsov, piano

• Tschaikowsky-Variationen

  Tchaikovsky

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...

  
  , Arensky

  Anton Arensky

  Anton Stepanovich Arensky -Biography:Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine...

  
  

  David Geringas, conductor and cellist

  Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim

• J. S. Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
  
  , 6 Suites for Cello (1995)

• Bach (1989)

  Suite No. 1

  Suite No. 2

  Suite No. 6

• Bach (1989)

  Suite No. 3

  Suite No. 4

  Suite No. 5

• Quasi Improvisata (2003)

  Anatolijus Senderovas - Songs of Sulamite

  Sofia Gubaidulina

  Sofia Gubaidulina

  Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...

  
   - In Croce

  Lepo Sumera

  Lepo Sumera

  Lepo Sumera was an Estonian composer and teacher. Considered one of Estonia's most renowned composers along with Heino Eller and Arvo Pärt, he was also his country's Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1992 during the days of the Singing Revolution.He was born in Tallinn and studied with Veljo...

  
   - Quasi Improvisata

  Eduardas Balsys - Habanera

  Ástor Piazzolla

  Ástor Piazzolla

  Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...

  
   - Tanti Anni Prima, Oblivion, Hommage à Liège

  with Geir Draugsvoll, bayan

  Bayan

  Bayan may have the following meanings coming from various cultures* Bayan, means dawn in Kurdish language.*Bayan, the larger drum of the tabla set.* an Arabic female name meaning "clearness, eloquence."*Bayan, the Turkish word for "lady"...

  
  

• Mozartiana - Hommage à Mozart (1992)

  Mozart

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

  
   - Andantino for piano and cello, K.Anh. 46

  Beethoven

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

  
   - Seven variations in E-flat major for cello and piano

  "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen" from Mozart's The Magic Flute

  The Magic Flute

  The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....

  
  

  Helene Liebmann

  Helene Liebmann

  Hélène Liebmann née Riese was a German pianist and composer. She was born in Berlin and studied music with Franz Lauska and Ferdinand Ries. A child prodigy, she made her debut before age 13 and published her Piano Sonata when she was 15. She married around 1814 and may have moved with her husband...

  
   - "Grande Sonate pour Pianoforte et Violincelle" in B-flat major, Op. 11

  Beethoven - Twelve variationa in F major, Op. 66 for cello and piano

  "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from Mozart's The Magic Flute

  Joseph Wölfl

  Joseph Wölfl

  Joseph Wölfl was an Austrian pianist and composer.-Biography:Wölfl was born at Salzburg, where he studied music under Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn....

  
   - "Grand Duo pour Piano et Violoncelle" in D minor, Op. 31

  Franz Xaver Mozart - From the Grand Sonata for piano and cello, Op. 19

  with Tatjana Schatz, piano

• Boccherini
  Luigi Boccherini
  Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...
  
   - 12 Concerti per il Violoncello (1988)

  Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, G 474

  Concerto No. 2 in A major, G 475

  Concerto No. 3 in D major, G 476

  Concerto No. 4 in C major, G 477

  Concerto No. 5 in D major, G 478

  Concerto No. 6 in D major, G 479

  Concerto No. 7 in G major, G 480

  Concerto No. 8 in C major, G 481

  Concerto No. 9 in B-flat major, G 482

  Concerto No. 10 in D major, G 483

  Concerto No. 11 in C major, G 573

  Concerto No. 12 in E-flat, major

  Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto

  Conductor: Bruno Giuranna

  Bruno Giuranna

  Bruno Giuranna is an Italian violist.According to Giuranna's website:"Bruno Giuranna, born in Milan, completed his musical studies at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome receiving his diploma in violin and viola...

  
  

• Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
   - Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra, in A minor, Op. 102 (1989)

  Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

  Mark Kaplan, violin

  Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden

  Conductor: Michael Gielen

  Michael Gielen

  -Professional career:Gielen was born in Dresden, Germany, to opera director Josef Gielen. Through his mother, Rose, he is the nephew of Eduard Steuermann and Salka Steuermann Viertel. He began his career as a pianist in Buenos Aires, where he studied with Erwin Leuchter and gave an early...

  
  

• Solo for Tatjana (1997)

  György Ligeti

  György Ligeti

  György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

  
   - Sonata for cello solo

  Solo Cello Sonata (Ligeti)

  The Sonata for Solo Cello is an unaccompanied cello sonata written by György Ligeti between 1948 and 1953. The piece was initially received poorly by the Soviet-run Composer's Union and was not allowed to be published or performed...

  
  

  Gerhard Schedl

  Gerhard Schedl

  Gerhard Schedl was an Austrian composer.-Professional career:Gerhard Schedl was born in Vienna and began composing during his childhood. In 1976 he began his professional studies with Erich Urbanner at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He graduated with distinction in 1980. He...

  
   - from "Zwei Stücke aus der Schatz-Truhe"

  Viktor Suslin

  Viktor Suslin

  Viktor Yevseyevich Suslin |Ural]], Russia ) is a Russian composer living in Germany as of 1981.-Biography:At the age of four , Suslin began to study piano and made his first attempts at composition. From 1950 to 1962 he attended Kharkiv Music High School, and from 1961 to 1962 at Kharkiv...

  
   - Schatz-Island

  Krzysztof Meyer

  Krzysztof Meyer

  Krzysztof Meyer is a Polish composer, pianist and music scholar.-Biography:Meyer was born in Cracow. As a boy he played piano and organ. He began his composition study early – in 1954, with Stanisław Wiechowicz...

  
   - Monolog

  Anatolijus Senderovas - Due Canti

  Pēteris Vasks

  Peteris Vasks

  Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer.Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, into the family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a violinist at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, as a double-bass player with Vitautas Sereikaan at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and played in several...

  
   - Gramata cellam

  Paul Hindemith

  Paul Hindemith

  Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...

  
   - Sonata for cello solo, Op. 25, No. 3

  Pablo Casals

  Pablo Casals

  Pau Casals i Defilló , known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time...

  
   - Cant dell Ocells

• Dvořák
  Antonín Dvorák
  Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
  
  (2003)

  Cello Concerto

  Cello Concerto (Dvorák)

  The Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191, by Antonín Dvořák was the composer's last solo concerto, and was written in 1894–1895 for his friend, the cellist Hanuš Wihan, but premiered by the English cellist Leo Stern.- Structure :...

  
   in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191

  Rondo in G minor, Op. 94, B. 181

  Silent Woods, B. 182

  Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

  Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

  The Česká filharmonie is a symphony orchestra based in Prague and is the best-known and most respected orchestra in the Czech Republic.- History :...

  
  

  Conductor Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi

  Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi

  is a Japanese conductor and composer.Born in Iwaki, Fukushima, Kobayashi's father was a high school teacher, mother was a primary school teacher. Kobayashi started composing music at the age of 11...

  
  

• Ali Baba and the forty robbers (1997)

  Musical fairytale from the "Thousand and One Nights"

  Narrator: Manfred Steffen

  Music: Alexander Geringas

  Alexander Geringas

  Alexander Geringas is a music producer, songwriter, composer and lyricist based in Hamburg, Germany.-Early life:Alex Geringas was born in Moscow in 1971. His parents pianist Tatiana and cellist David Geringas left the Soviet Union in 1975...

  
  

  Violin: Natalia Prishepenko

  Flute: Wolfgang Ritter

  Piano/song: Alexander Geringas

  Alexander Geringas

  Alexander Geringas is a music producer, songwriter, composer and lyricist based in Hamburg, Germany.-Early life:Alex Geringas was born in Moscow in 1971. His parents pianist Tatiana and cellist David Geringas left the Soviet Union in 1975...

  
  

  Bass: Johannes Huth

  Drums: Martin Engelbach

• Gubaidulina
  Sofia Gubaidulina
  Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...
  
   (2000)

  "Und: Das Fest ist in vollem Gang"

  Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe

  Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe

  Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe is a theatre in Baden-Württemberg , Germany....

  
  

  Conductor: Kazushi Ono

  Kazushi Ono

  is a Japanese conductor, born in Tokyo. He studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and with Wolfgang Sawallisch and Giuseppe Patanè at the Bavarian State Opera , as a scholar of the Japanese Ministry of Culture. In 1987 he won First Prize in the 3rd Toscanini International...

  
  

• Haydn
  Joseph Haydn
  Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
  
   (1994)

  Cello Concerto in C major, Hob. VIIb-1

  Ceccl Concerto in D major, Hob. VIIb-2

  Andante from Symphony No. 13 for Cello and Orchestra

  Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra

• My recollections (2002)

  Vytautas Barkauskas

  Vytautas Barkauskas

  Vytautas Barkauskas is a Lithuanian composer and is a Professor of Composition of the Lithuanian Academy of Music, where he has taught since 1961.-Career:...

  
   - Suites de concert, Op. 98

  Bronius Kutavicius

  Bronius Kutavicius

  Bronius Kutavičius is a Lithuanian composer. He has written numerous oratorios and operas, among them The Last Pagan Rites, Lokys the Bear and The Gates of Jerusalem...

  
   - Rhythmus-Arhythmus

  Anatolijus Senderovas - Due canti

  with Tatjana Schatz-Geringas, piano

  Osvaldas Balakauskas

  Osvaldas Balakauskas

  Osvaldas Balakauskas is a Lithuanian composer of classical music.- Career :Balakauskas graduated from Vilnius Pedagogical University in 1961. After his mandatory service in the Soviet Army between 1961 and 1964, he studied composition with Boris Lyatoshinsky and M. M. Skorik at Kiev Conservatory...

  
   - Dal vento

  Mindaugas Urbaitis - Reminiscences

  with Petras Geniusas

  Petras Geniušas

  Petras Geniušas is a Lithuanian classical pianist.In his career he has been working with Alfred Schnittke, Bronius Kutavičius, Osvaldas Balakauskas and Leonid Desyatnikov, composers who have dedicated several of their compositions to the pianist...

  
  , piano

• Pfitzner
  Hans Pfitzner
  Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...
  
   (1993)

  Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 52

  Cello Concerto in G major in one movement, Op. 42

  Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. posth.

  Bambert Symphony Orchestra

  Werner Andreas Albert

  Werner Andreas Albert

  Werner Andreas Albert is a German conductor.He began his studies in musicology and history, and later studying conducting with Herbert von Karajan and Hans Rosbaud. After his 1961 debut with the Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra, he became chief conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie...

  
  

• David Geringas * Tatjana Schatz (1994)

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

  
   - Sonata, Op. 40

  Prokofiev

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

  
  

  Sonata, Op. 119

  Adagio from Cinderella

  Cinderella (Prokofiev)

  Cinderella is a ballet, Op. 87, composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception. The piece was composed between 1940 and 1944. Part way through writing it he...

  
  , Op. 97a

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

  
   - Humoreske, Op. 5

  Tatjana Schatz, Piano

• Dchnittke
  Alfred Schnittke
  Alfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso...
  
   (1998–99)

  Epilogue from the ballet "Peer Gynt"

  Musica nostalgica

  Cello Sonata No. 1

  Tatjana Schatz, Piano

• Piano Trios

  Mieczyslaw Weinberg

  Mieczyslaw Weinberg

  Mieczysław Weinberg was a Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin....

  
   - Piano Trio, Op. 24

  Alexander Weprik - Drei Volkstänze, Op. 13b

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

  
   - Piano Trio, Op. 67

  Dmitry Sitkovetsky

  Dmitry Sitkovetsky

  Dmitry Sitkovetsky is a Russian violinist and conductor.- Early life :Dmitry Sitkovetsky was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, to violinist Julian Sitkovetsky and pianist Bella Davidovich. His father died in 1958, when Sitkovetsky was just three years old and the family moved to Moscow where Dmitry...

  
  , Violin

  Jasha Nemtsov, Piano

• David Geringas * Tatjana Schatz (1994)

  Schumann

  Robert Schumann

  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

  
  

  Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70

  Fantasiestücke, Op. 73

  Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102

  Schubert

  Franz Schubert

  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

  
  

  Arpeggione Sonata

  Arpeggione Sonata

  The Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, was written by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. The sonata is the only substantial composition for the arpeggione which remains extant today...

  
   in A minor, D. 821

  Tatjana Schatz, piano

• David Geringas * Tatjana Schatz (1993)

  Richard Strauss

  Richard Strauss

  Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...

  
  

  Cello Sonata, Op. 6

  Romance in F Major

  Erwin Schulhoff

  Erwin Schulhoff

  Erwin Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist.-Life:Born in Prague of Jewish-German origin, Schulhoff was one of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany...

  
   - Cello Sonata, Op. 17

  Tatjana Schatz, piano

• Anatolijus Senderovas (2002)

  Concerto in Do

  Symphony Orchestra of the Lithuanian Academy of Music

  Robertas Servenikas, Conductor

• Lepo Sumera
  Lepo Sumera
  Lepo Sumera was an Estonian composer and teacher. Considered one of Estonia's most renowned composers along with Heino Eller and Arvo Pärt, he was also his country's Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1992 during the days of the Singing Revolution.He was born in Tallinn and studied with Veljo...
  
  (2003)

  Cello Concerto

  Musica profana

  Symphony No. 6

  Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

  Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

  The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra is the leading orchestra in Estonia and is based in the capital Tallinn. Founded as the Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, it gave its first concert in a broadcast by Tallinn Radio on December 18, 1926...

  
  

  Paavo Järvi

  Paavo Järvi

  Paavo Järvi is an Estonian-American conductor, and current Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris.Järvi was born in Tallinn, Estonia, to conductor Neeme Järvi and Liilia Järvi. His siblings, Kristjan Järvi and Maarika Järvi, are also musicians...

  
  , Conductor

• Erkki-Sven Tüür
  Erkki-Sven Tüür
  Erkki-Sven Tüür is an Estonian composer.Tüür was born in Kärdla on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa. He studied flute and percussion at the Tallinn Music School from 1976 to 1980 and composition with Jaan Rääts at the Tallinn Academy of Music and privately with Lepo Sumera from 1980 to 1984...
  
  

  Symphony No. 3

  Cello Concerto

  Lighthouse

  Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

  Dennis Russell Davies

  Dennis Russell Davies

  Dennis Russell Davies is an American conductor and pianist. He studied piano and conducting at the Juilliard School where he received his doctorate...

  
  , conductor

• Pēteris Vasks
  Peteris Vasks
  Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer.Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, into the family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a violinist at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, as a double-bass player with Vitautas Sereikaan at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and played in several...
  
  

  Cello Concerto

  String Symphony - Voices (Balsis)

  Riga Philharmonic Orchestra

  Jonas Aleksa, Conductor

• Schostakowitsch - Schulhoff

  Shostakovich

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

  
   - String Quartet No. 14

  String Quartet No. 13

  Two Pieces for String Quartet

  with Gidon Kremer

  Gidon Kremer

  Gidon Kremer is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.-Biography:Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish and Latvian-Swedish origins. He began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather,...

  
  , Violin - Yuzuko Horigome, Violin - Kim Kashkashian

  Kim Kashkashian

  Kim Kashkashian is an Armenian-American violist.-Professional career:Kim Kashkashian studied the viola with Karen Tuttle. She also studied at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. She won the 2nd prize at the 1980 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the 1980 ARD International Music...

  
  , Viola

  Erwin Schulhoff

  Erwin Schulhoff

  Erwin Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist.-Life:Born in Prague of Jewish-German origin, Schulhoff was one of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany...

  
   - Sextet

  Sextet

  A sextet is a formation containing exactly six members. It is commonly associated with vocal or musical instrument groups, but can be applied to any situation where six similar or related objects are considered a single unit....

  
  

  with Gidon Kremer, Violin - Philip Hirschhorn, Violin - Nobuko Imai

  Nobuko Imai

  , is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she plays an Andrea Guarneri of 1690.-Biography:...

  
  , Viola - Kim Kashkashian, Viola - Julius Berger

  Julius Berger

  Julius Berger may refer to:*Julius Berger, character in Outcasts *Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, a German construction company in Nigeria*Julius Berger FC, a football club of Julius Berger Nigeria PLC...

  
  , cello

  Erwin Schulhoff

  Erwin Schulhoff

  Erwin Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist.-Life:Born in Prague of Jewish-German origin, Schulhoff was one of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany...

  
   - Duo

  Duet (music)

  A duet is a musical composition for two performers. In classical music, the term is most often used for a composition for two singers or pianists; with other instruments, the word duo is also often used. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is referred to as...

  
   for Violin and Cello

  with Philip Hirschhorn, Violin

• Krzysztof Meyer
  Krzysztof Meyer
  Krzysztof Meyer is a Polish composer, pianist and music scholar.-Biography:Meyer was born in Cracow. As a boy he played piano and organ. He began his composition study early – in 1954, with Stanisław Wiechowicz...
  
  (2006)

  Canzona für Violoncello und Klavier

  with Tanja Schatz, Klavier

Chamber music

David Geringas is also a welcome guest at international chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

 stages. So Tatjana Geringas and Ian Fountain belong to his closest partners on the piano. In the season 2004/2005 David Geringas gave together with Ian Fountain a concert series entitled "Beethoven plus…" at the Philharmonie Berlin. He also works closely together with the Artemis Quartett, the Vogler-Quartett and the Bläserquintett of the Staatskapelle Berlin

Staatskapelle Berlin

The Staatskapelle Berlin is a German orchestra, the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera .The orchestra traces its roots to 1570, when Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg established an orchestra at his court...

.

Conducting

To an ever-growing extent David Geringas has been engaged as conductor. Among others he conducted the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, the Kammerphilharmonie of the MDR Leipzig, the Jenaer Philharmonie

Jenaer Philharmonie

The Jenaer Philharmonie is a symphony orchestra based in Jena, Germany. It was founded in 1934 with the intent to revive and continue the old traditions of the "Collegium musicum Jenense" and the academic concerts by the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena...

, the chamber orchestra of the Wiener Symphoniker (Concert-Verein), the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra , is a Danish orchestra based in Copenhagen. The DNSO is the principal orchestra of DR...

/DR, das Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Kremerata Baltica

Kremerata Baltica

Kremerata Baltica is a chamber orchestra consisting of young musicians from Baltic countries . It was founded by Gidon Kremer in 1997.The name is a pun on camerata, the general word applying to various chamber music groups....

 as well as orchestras in Lithuania, Italy, the Netherlands, Mexico and Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

. In February 2007 David Geringas will conduct for the first time the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

The claims to be the oldest classical orchestra in Japan, having been founded in Nagoya in 1911. It moved to Tokyo in 1938 and has some 166 members as of 2005....

, give his debut as conductor in China in the 2007/2008 season and will be guest again in Japan.

For his first CD recording as conductor he received the 'Choc de la Musique' of the music review 'Le Monde de la Musique'.

Since 2005 David Geringas has been Chief Guest Conductor of the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra.

Sources

• The Classical Music Guide Forums

External links

• Home page of David Geringas
• Kajimoto Concert Management