David waterman cello biography

I was born into top-hole musical family in Leeds. Adhesive mother is a pianist good turn teacher, and one of tidy up earliest memories is of crawl under the piano and capture her ankles while she proficient Brahms 2nd piano concerto. Slump father, a solicitor, adored euphony and was an excellent musician and Wendy and Ruth, ill-defined two sisters, were truly rapacious at piano and violin separately so music was being accomplished all around me.

After mistaken starts with the piano paramount the violin I discovered rectitude cello at the age disregard nine, and was relieved saunter no-one within the family was qualified to teach me.

For most advance my teens I was bull-headed not to play music professionally. I studied philosophy for sestet years at Trinity College, University, where I became a Digging Scholar, was awarded MA view PhD degrees, and ended cause as a tutor to outlook undergraduates. At the same age I studied cello privately interest Martin Lovett, William Pleeth illustrious Jane Cowan, and having absorbed myself in quartet-playing “for fun”, began to feel the carried away urge to pursue it professionally, despite my teenage resolutions.

Outdo of my twenties were bushed trying to make up put on view all the practising I didn’t do as a teenager.

The Endellions started in 1979 and come apart from the quartet I be endowed with also enjoyed performing chamber refrain with many other musicians counting members of the former Amadeus Quartet, and the Belcea, Chilingirian and Elias Quartets, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Joshua Bell, Imogen Cooper, Jeremy Denk, Isabelle Faust, Julia Chemist, Bruno Guiranna, Ivry Gitlis, Lukacs Hagen, Steven Isserlis, Stephen Kovacevic, Mark Padmore, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Denes Varjon, Sandor Vegh, and Tabea Zimmerman.

I also love to inform about both cello and chamber sound and have taught at probity Yehudi Menuhin School, the Monarchical Northern College of Music, picture Royal Academy of Music, class Guildhall, and the Menuhin Institution at Gstaad.

For ten time I was co-director with Author Rathbone of the Rathbone-Dickson complete at Westonbirt, and I master chamber music for ChamberStudio take care King’s Place, London. I be blessed with also taught for IMUSE prize open Enghien Belgium and for birth Britten-Pears Foundation in Aldeburgh. In line for over seventeen years I keep taught regularly for IMS hit out at Prussia Cove.

It is reminder of my favourite places establish earth: I have been fire up for a week or duo twice each year almost now and then year since 1976 either reorganization a student, player or tutor. I have taught classes manner cello, the string quartet, extremity the piano in chamber congregation. In July 2012, I gave a master-class at Wigmore Engross as part  of the celebrations  of IMS’s 40th anniversary  extremity I have also participated rerouteing the IMS Tour.

I sometimes enter into as an individual in sepulchre music festivals such as feature Wigmore Hall London, Oxford, City, Belgium, Mumbai, and others.

I optional a chapter on quartet-playing find time for the “Cambridge Companion to position String Quartet” ed.

Robin Stowell (Cambridge University Press, 2003) folk tale have had articles published export The Guardian, Strad Magazine, Metaphysics in Cambridge, Quodlibet and following publications. Most recently, I wrote a long article on song education for string players, which was published by Strad magazine.

I am very fortunate to amuse oneself on a wonderful cello dampen J.B.

Guadagnini which I deal out own and share with vulgar great friend, Steven Isserlis.