David Soyer

David Seth Soyer (born February 24, 1923 in Philadelphia , † February 25, 2010 in New York ) was an American cellist and music teacher.

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Soyer began playing the piano at the age of eight and had cello lessons from the age of eleven. His teachers included Emmet Sargent , Joseph Emonts , Diran Alexanian and Emanuel Feuermann . He made his cellist debut in 1942 with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy and played euphonium in a US Navy band during World War II . After the war he appeared with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini , where he received important suggestions from his first cellist Frank Miller , was a member of the Bach Aria Group and played the cello in four string quartets (including that of Daniel Guilet ) and the New Music Quartet (with Broadus Erle , Matthew Raimondi and Walter Trampler ). He also worked on several albums by Frank Sinatra , on Billie Holidays Lady in Satin and on Joan Baez 'version of Heitor Villa-Lobos ' Bachiana Brasileira No 5 .

In 1961, at the suggestion of Rudolf Serkin and Felix Galimir, he came to the summer school founded by Serkin and Adolf Busch in Marlboro / Vermont, to which he remained connected for decades. Here he met Pablo Casals in 1962 , who became his mentor, and founded the Guarneri String Quartet with violinists Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley and violist Michael Tree . He was a member of this until 2001. That year he gave his seat to his student Peter Wiley at a concert at Carnegie Hall . In 2009 he appeared with the quartet for the last time in Schubert's string quintet .

In addition to his summer courses in Marlboro, Soyer has also taught at the Curtis Institute , the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School, and the University of Maryland .

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SURNAME	Soyer, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Soyer, David Seth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American cellist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 24, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Philadelphia , USA
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 2010
Place of death	New York , USA