Daniel Gaisford

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Daniel Gaisford is an American cellist.

Life

Gaisford grew up in Salt Lake City, where he was a student of Richard Hoyt and Gayle Smith . He continued his education at the University of Southern California with Gabor Rejto and Ronald Leonard and at the Juilliard School with Harvey Shapiro and Channing Robbins . He was first cellist of the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra and won first prize at the Shostakovich Cello Competition . This enabled him to give his debut concert at Lincoln Center , where he played Shostakovich's Second Cello Concerto.

In the following years he appeared as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Saint Louis, Seattle, Toronto and Montreal and under the direction of Robert Spano , David Zinman and Hermann Michael and gave concerts as a recitalist and chamber musician a. a. in New York, San Francisco and Boston, Berlin, Rome and Tokyo. As a guest he took part in the Mostly Mozart Festival , the Chautauqua Festival , the Caramoor Festival and the Davos Festival in Switzerland, the RomaEuropa Festival , the Festival of the Atlantic in New Jersey, the Matrix Festival , the Prince Albert Festival in Kauai, the Aspen Music Festival and the Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado. In 2001 he recorded Michael Hersch's First Sonata for cello solo and in 2005 his Second Cello Sonata, dedicated to him. In the 2015–16 season he gave 20 concerts with the cellist Jessika Soli as Rosin Cello Duo . In the 2019-20 season he performed with Johann Sebastian Bach's Suites for Solo Cello, among others .

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SURNAME Gaisford, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century