James Kreger

James Kreger (* around 1953 in Nashville ) is an American cellist and music teacher.

Kreger took his first cello lessons at the age of nine and was a student of Leonard Rose and Harvey Shapiro . He won the Piatigorsky Prize at the age of eighteen and was awarded the Morris Loeb Prize and the Felix Salmond Award as a student at the Juilliard School . In 1974 he was one of the cello prizewinners at the Tchaikovsky Competition .

In the following years he gave concerts in Europe, Asia and the United States under conductors such as Erich Leinsdorf , Eugene Ormandy , Leopold Stokowski , Carlo Maria Giulini , Fabio Luisi , Michael Tilson Thomas , Zubin Mehta , Carlos Kleiber , Riccardo Muti , James Levine , Adrian Boult , Rafael Kubelík and Pablo Casals and has been a guest at music festivals in the USA and Europe. At the invitation of Janos Starker , he was a guest of the American Cello Congress at Indiana University .

As a chamber musician, Kreger has worked with Heinz Holliger , Andras Schiff , Richard Goode , Felix Galimir , Wynton Marsalis , Oscar Shumsky , Jean-Philippe Collard , Jean-Pierre Rampal , James Galway and Maureen Forrester , among others . With Gerald Robbins he recorded all of Mendelssohn's works for cello and piano. On two other Guild Music CDs he played Richard Strauss Don Quixote , Victor Herbert's Cello Concerto No. 2 , Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto and its forest rest . Kreger taught at the Juilliard School for almost 30 years, and he also taught the cellists of the New World Symphony in Miami as a guest .

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SURNAME	Kreger, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American cellist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nashville