David Finckel
David Finckel is an American cellist and influential figure in the classical music world. The cellist for the Emerson String Quartet from 1979 to 2013, Finckel is currently the co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, co-founder of the independent record label ArtistLed, co-artistic director and co-founder of Music@Menlo in Silicon Valley, producer of Cello Talks, professor of cello at The Juilliard School, and visiting professor of music at Stony Brook University.
Finckel frequently collaborates with pianist Wu Han. The two were married in 1985. They regularly perform on the chamber music series in the United States, as well as across Europe and Asia. They also appear in trio performances with violinist Philip Setzer and clarinetist David Shifrin, and as a piano quartet with violinist Daniel Hope and violist Paul Neubauer.
Discography and digital media
David's more than 80 releases on the ArtistLed, CMS Live, and Music@Menlo LIVE labels include the staples of the cello-piano duo repertoire with pianist Wu Han and masterworks of the chamber repertoire with numerous musicians. In recent seasons, David has designed and produced more than 200 digital media projects, which brought the art of chamber music in dozens of communities across the United States.The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
In 2004, Finckel and Wu Han were appointed Co-Artistic Directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. The Chamber Music Society is one of eleven constituents of Lincoln Center.Music@Menlo
In 2003, Wu Han and Finkel co-founded Music@Menlo, an annual chamber music festival. Alumni of both Music@Menlo's Chamber Music Institute and internship program have gone on to create and direct more than 30 chamber music organizations worldwide.In 2002, Finckel developed and trademarked AudioNotes, an innovative complement to program notes. The listener guides are designed to offer audiences engaging introductions to many of the concert programs presented over the years.
Finckel's 100 online lessons on cello technique, Cello Talks, are viewed by an international audience of musicians.
Media
Finckel has been the subject of numerous articles including in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Toronto Star, New York Newsday, The Mercury News, The Strad, BBC Music Magazine, Strings Magazine, San Francisco Classical Voice, Concerti magazine, Musical America, The Washington Post, and The Violin Channel. On television, he has appeared on NBC Nightly News, PBS's Live from Lincoln Center, Medici TV, Channel 13 New York Voices and Articulate with Jim Cotter and has also been a frequent guest on National Public Radio, American Public Media's Performance Today, Saint Paul Sunday, and other popular classical radio programs.Discography
Bach, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Britten- Wu Han LIVE II Simple Gifts: The Chamber Music Society at Shaker Village Romantic Piano Quartets on Deutsche Grammaphon with Daniel Hope, Paul Neubauer and Wu Han
- Dvorak/Thomas
- Wu Han LIVE Dvorak Piano Trios with Philip Setzer and David Finckel Mendelssohn: The Piano Trios with Philip Setzer and David Finckel Clarinet Trios with David Shifrin and David Finckel For David and Wu Han Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos Dreams of Fancy, Tales of Loss Schubert Piano Trios with Philip Setzer and David Finckel Beethoven and Dvorak Piano Quartets CMS Studio Recordings: Elgar and Walton CMS Studio Recordings: Beethoven and Dvořák DG Concerts: Bartok/Dvořák Brahms Sonatas Schubert Sonatas Edwin Finckel: Music For Cello Russian Classics Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano & Cello Sonatas by Strauss, Franck, and Finckel Sonatas by Tchaikovsky and Kodály with Da-Hong Seetoo and David Finckel Sonatas by Grieg, Schumann, and Chopin
- ''Piston: Concerto for String Quartet, Winds and Percussion ''