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GeringasDavid Geringas is one of the most versatile musicians of our time. The cellist and conductor works with an unusually broad repertoire from early baroque to contemporary music. The native Lithuanian was the first to perform many compositions by Russian and Lithuanian avant-garde composers in the West. Thanks to his international engagement for Lithuanian music and composers, he received the highest accolades from his native country. Federal President Horst Köhler awarded him with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in October 2006, honouring him for his outstanding achievements as a musician and as an ambassador for Germany’s culture on the international music scene.
From 1963 to 1973 Geringas studied with Mstislav Rostropovich at Moscow’s tradition-steeped music conservatory. In 1970 he won the 1st prize and the gold medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition.
The artist was a teacher at the Hochschule Hanns Eisler in Berlin; he was an emeritus professor at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory and is honorary doctor of the Faculty of Musicology at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
David Geringas has played all over the world with the most important orchestras and the greatest conductors of our time. His extensive discography – over 50 Cds – includes many award-winning recordings such as the 12 Cello Concertos by Luigi Boccherini (Grand Prix du Disque), the chamber music by Henri Dutilleux (Diapason d’Or) or the Cello Concertos by Hans Pfitzner (Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik).
Important contemporary composers such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Peteris Vasks and Erkki-Sven Tüür have dedicated new compositions to Geringas. In July 2006, Anatolijus Senderovas’s composition David’s Song for Cello and String Quartet was premièred in Kronberg – a dedication to Geringas’s sixtieth birthday.
As a conductor, David Geringas performs all over the world. From 2005 to 2008 he served as Chief Guest Conductor for the Japanese Kyushu Symphony Orchestra. In 2007 David Geringas made his debut with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and the China Philharmonic Orchestra, and in February 2009 he conducted the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. His future commitments will see him open the concert season in Basel, conduct the Eugene Oneghin in Lithuania as well as a concert in Japan where one thousand cellists will perform. His most recent recordings, dedicated to works by Mendelssohn, Chopin and Rachmaninoff played with pianist Ian Fountain, have received the best reviews by the international music critics.