David Gilevich Geringas ( Goring , lit. David Geringas , original name David Geringas - lit. Dovydas Geringas ; born July 29, 1946 , Vilnius ) - Lithuanian cellist and conductor , since 1975 lives in Germany .
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| Birth name | lit. Dovydas geringas |
| Full name | David Gilevich Geringas |
| Date of Birth | July 29, 1946 ( 73) |
| Place of Birth | Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR , USSR |
| A country |  the USSR  Lithuania |
| Professions | cellist , conductor , music teacher |
| Instruments | cello |
| Genres | classical music |
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Beginning of the path
He was the youngest of four sons in the family of the musician Hillel Haimovich Geringas (1911-1980), who served in the 16th Lithuanian Division [1] [2] . The elder brother is the Israeli composer Beni Gilin (Beni Gilevich Geringas, born 1935) [3] [4] [5] .
In 1963 - 1973 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of cello under M. Rostropovich . In 1970 he won a gold medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition .
Wife - pianist Tatyana Shatz-Geringas (nee Schatz) [6] .
Creative career
He has performed with the largest orchestras in the world - the Berlin Philharmonic , the Hamburg Symphony , the Bamberg Symphony , the London Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra , the N.H.K. Symphony Orchestra and others, under the direction of prominent conductors from Michael Gilen and Wolfgang Zavallish to Semyon Beyonich .
The cellist’s repertoire extends from Bach and Mozart to Gubaidulina , Lepo Sumera and Peteris Vask . He played in ensembles with G. Kremer , K. Kashkashyan , Nobuko Imai , V. Tretyakov , D. Sitkovetsky , Y. Nemtsov , Baiba Skride and other instrumentalists. Criticism and prizes marked his performance of the Boccherini sonatas, works by Pfitsner and Dutiyo .
As a conductor, he worked with orchestras in Europe, Mexico , Costa Rica , Japan , and China .
Teaching activities
He taught at the Hamburg Higher School of Music and Theater ( 1977 - 1986 ), the Lübeck Higher School of Music , since 2001 he has been teaching at the Berlin Higher School of Music . Among his students are Sol Gabetta , Ramon Jaffe, Johannes Moser, Boris Andrianov.
Notes
- ↑ Union of Warriors and Partisans - Disabled War with the Nazis Archived March 20, 2014 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Hillel Haimovich Geringas
- ↑ Mark Sokolsky “leafing through time”
- ↑ Benny Gilin
- ↑ Yesterday, finally, I really heard the cello!
- ↑ Interview with D. Geringas Archived November 5, 2011 on Wayback Machine
Recognition
Order of Merit of Germany ( 2006 ) and other awards