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David Requiro
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David Requiro, a first prize winner of the 2008 Naumburg International Cello Award, is one of today’s most promising young cellists. At 23, he has already captured first prizes in the Irving M. Klein and Washington International String Competitions as well as the inaugural National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloists’ Competition. In addition, he won a top prize at the Gaspar Cassadó International Violoncello Competition in Hachioji, Japan, where he also earned the prize for the best performances of works by Cassadó. This season, Mr. Requiro will be making concerto appearances with the Santa Fe Symphony and the Marin Symphony, as well as performing recitals in Boston, New York and San Francisco. He has appeared as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Pro Musica in Boston, and with several orchestras in California and Ohio. Actively involved in contemporary music, Mr. Requiro has collaborated with composers Krzysztof Penderecki and Bright Sheng, as well as with members of the Aspen Percussion Ensemble, giving the Aspen Music Festival premiere of Tan Dun’s concerto, Elegy: Snow in June, for cello and percussion. He has also performed the European premieres of Lou Harrison’s Suite for Cello and Orchestra on tour in Italy with the Crowden School Orchestra. In February, he will be finishing the complete cycle of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Cello and Piano at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. |
As a former member of the Kashii String Quartet, he has served on faculty at the Innsbrook Music Festival and Institute, was the winner of Silver Medals in both the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition, and has recorded Aaron J. Kernis’s 100 Greatest Dance Hits with guitarist David Tanenbaum on the Blackbox label. Mr. Requiro has worked with members of the Emerson, Takacs, Borromeo, Brentano, Orion, St. Lawrence, and Juilliard String Quartets, as well as Isaac Stern in the 2001 “Stern Encounters” master class series. In addition, he has collaborated with artists such as Atar Arad, Peter Frankl, Mikhail Kopelman, Cynthia Phelps, Gil Sharon, and the Cavani String Quartet. A former member of the New York Strings Seminar, Mr. Requiro has also performed in the Aspen Music Festival, Emerson String Quartet Seminar, Music@Menlo, Perlman Chamber Music Program, and Giverny Chamber Music Festival. This past summer, he performed at Strings in the Mountains Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Mr. Requiro is currently a member of the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players in New York City.
Mr. Requiro is currently pursuing his Master of Music degree at the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Richard Aaron. He received his Bachelor of Music degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music. A native of Oakland, California, he began cello studies at age six and his teachers included Dina Weinschelbaum, Milly Rosner, Bonnie Hampton, and Mark Churchill. He has also worked closely with Michel Strauss. He has attended the Crowden School and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. For four seasons, Mr. Requiro was principal cellist of both the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra of Boston.