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Faculty & Staff > Emerson String Quartet > David Finckel |
David Finckel, Artist in Residence;
Emerson String Quartet
Cello
Cellist David Finckel's multi-faceted career makes him one of the world's most active musicians. His recent solo engagements have taken him toGermany, England, Canada, Mexico and Japan, and in the United States, to distinguished series in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, Boston, Atlanta, Cleveland, Albuquerque and St. Paul. In the summer of 2000, David Finckel and Wu Han performed the complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and at Chamber Music Northwest. They also made their debuts at festivals in Finland and Mexico, and returned to Japan for a special recital honoring the 10th anniversary of the Japan-Aspen Music Festival. Last May, the duo presented their third recital at London's Wigmore Hall. This season David Finckel records John Harbison's Cello Concerto, and performs new works composed for him by distinguished American composers Augusta Read Thomas and Bruce Adolphe. Finckel is a co-founder of ArtistLed, the first musician-directed and Internet-based classical recording company (www.ArtistLed.com). All five ArtistLed releases have received critical acclaim, and a sixth disk featuring the three great sonatas of Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and Prokofiev was released in February 2001. Finckel recently concluded three years as Artistic Co-Director of SummerFest La Jolla, one of the country's most distinguished summer music festivals, where he brought international recognition for high performance standards, and innovative programming of concerts, symposiums and multi-disciplinary events. He is a regular member of the distinguished teaching faculty of the Isaac Stern Chamber Music workshops in New York and Jerusalem, and gives master classes at the Aspen Music Festival in the Summer. David Finckel lives in New York with his wife, the pianist Wu Han, and their six-year-old daughter Lilian.
