David Geber had his early musical training in Los Angeles, where he was raised in a family of professional cellists. He holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Juilliard School. Mr. Geber has been recipient of numerous cello and chamber music awards, including the Walter W. Naumburg Award and the Coleman Chamber Music Prize. He has appeared as soloist at Tanglewood Music Center and Aspen Music Festival, as well as with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Montreal Symphony. A strong supporter of new music, he has premiered numerous works for cello as well as for varied chamber combinations. As a founding member of the American String Quartet, he concertized internationally with that ensemble for twenty-eight years. Mr. Geber is Vice Provost and Dean of Artistic Affairs at Manhattan School of Music in New York City, as well as a longtime member of the School’s cello and chamber music faculty. He is artist/faculty at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California and at Tanglewood Music Center. He serves as a tutor in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in the United Kingdom and has recently joined the roster of DeTao Masters Academy in China. He has recorded for Albany Records, Capstone Records, CRI, Musical Heritage Society, New World Records, Nonesuch Records, and RCA. Mr. Geber frequently performs and presents cello/chamber music master classes in North America, Europe and Asia, as well as serving as adjudicator for major international string competitions including Bordeaux, Evian and Naumburg. He is on the boards of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation and American Friends of Kronberg Academy. His cello is a rare G.B. Ruggieri, made in Cremona in 1667.