The Chamber Music Society of Detroit will present cellist David Geringas and pianist Ian Fountain in their first appearances on the CMSD series Sunday, January 26 at 3:00 PM. Gold medal winner of the 1970 Tchaikovsky Competition and student of the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Lithuanian cellist David Geringas has performed with many leading orchestras and conductors of our time and has made over 100 CDs. His collaborator, pianist Ian Fountain, became the youngest winner of the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Masters Competition in Tel Aviv in 1989 at the age of 19. Since that time he has performed extensively throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Far East.
The concert takes place at the Seligman Performing Arts Center, 22305 West 13 Mile Road (corner of Lahser Road) on the campus of Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills. Single tickets priced at $30 - $60, and student tickets at $15 - $24, are available by phone at 248-855-6070 or online at www.chambermusicdetroit.org. Student rush tickets priced at $10 are also available at the box office beginning an hour before performance time.
Program:
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Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 102, No. 2
R. Strauss: Cello Sonata in F major, Op. 6
Rachmaninoff: Four song transcriptions
Morning, Op. 4, No. 2
In the Silence of the Night, Op. 4, No. 3
Do Not Sing to Me Anymore, Op. 4, No. 4
Streams of Spring, Op. 14, No. 11
Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19
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About the Artists
Lithuanian cellist and conductor David Geringas belongs to the musical elite of today. An unusually broad repertoire from the early Baroque to the contemporary reflects both his flexibility and musical curiosity. A student of Mstislav Rostropovich and gold-medal winner of the 1970 Tchaikovsky Competition, David Geringas has performed world-wide with some of the leading orchestras and important conductors of our time. His discography, which now approaches 100 CDs, includes many that have won prestigious prizes, including the Grand Prix du Disque, the Diapason d’Or d’Année and the prize of the year from the Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
A frequent collaborator of David Geringas, British pianist Ian Fountain was the youngest winner of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition in Tel Aviv at the age of 19. Since that time, Mr. Fountain has performed extensively throughout Europe, the US and the Middle East with such major orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra.
“David Geringas is one of today’s most respected cellists. His intellectual rigor, stylistic versatility and warm tone have earned him accolades the world over ... A pianist of finely tuned artistic sensibilities, [Fountain] leans into notes and plays into textures … both are superlative artists.”
—Gramophone Magazine
