Vita

DAVID A. STARKWEATHER Return to Starkweather home page

Training in Performance

Employment

Honors and Awards

Publications: Articles, Editions, Recordings

Doctoral Documents

Professional Memberships

Student Honors and Awards

Instrument: Jean Baptiste Vuillaume cello (c.1828)

Doctor of Musical Arts degree, State University of New York at Stony Brook, May 1983; studied with Bernard Greenhouse
Master of Music degree, State University of New York at Stony Brook, December 1979; studied with Bernard Greenhouse
Bachelor of Music degree, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, May 1978; studied with Robert Sylvester
Attended the University of California at Davis from September 1973 to June 1975

Lessons with Pierre Fournier, Geneva, Switzerland; June through December, 1985
Banff Centre of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada; master classes with Starker, Orloff, Parisot, and Tsutsumi, 1981 and 1982
Meadowmount School, Elizabethtown, New York; lessons with Channing Robbins; 1978
Principal cellist of the Eastman Phiharmonia Orchestra, David Zinman, conductor; Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, 1977
Sarasota Music Festival, principal cellist of the Festival Orchestra, master classes with Ron Leonard and Bernard Greenhouse; Sarasota, Florida, 1977
Blossom Festival School at Kent State University, with the Cleveland Orchestra, lessons with Stephen Geber, 1976 and 1977
Taos School of Music, New Mexico; chamber music coaching with the New Hungarian String Quartet, 1975
Colorado Philharmonic, repertory orchestra program; Evergreen, Colorado, 1974

Professor of Music, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; 1998 to present
Associate Professor of Music, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; 1989 to 1998
Assistant Professor of Music, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; 1983 to 1989
Artist Management of Korea '97 Kyung Ju Summer Music Camp & Festival faculty, Kyung-Ju, South Korea, 1997
Carmel Bach Festival, Carmel, California; performed in chamber groups and with the festival chamber orchestra, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996
Master classes and lessons taught at Youth Music Monterey summer camp, California
Member of the Atlanta Virtuosi chamber music ensemble, Atlanta, Georgia; 1988-1990
Professor of Cello at the Winter Festival of Strings and Piano, Santa Maria, Brazil; 1986, 1987, 1997, and 1998
Orchestral freelancing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and others

Tchaikovsky International Violoncello Competition, semifinalist, awarded Certificate of Merit, Moscow, USSR; June 1986
Chicago Cello Society Competition, third prize, Chicago, Illinois; April 1984
Young Artists Showcase Competition winner, Association of California Symphony Orchestras and California Arts Council, San Jose, California; August 20, 1983
Marin Symphony Scholarship Competition winner, California; 1981 and 1982
Graduate Chamber Orchestra Competition winner, State University of New York at Stony Brook; 1981

Journal Articles:

"Methods of Shifting." Highlights of American String Teacher Cello Forum Articles, 1984-1994, (April 1996), pp. 21-25
"The Locatelli Sonata: Comparing Piatti's Arrangement with the Original." American String Teacher, 45:4 (Fall 1995), pp. 55-59. Reprinted in the National Capitol Cello Club Newsletter, March, 1996
"Extension and Contraction." American String Teacher, 44:2 (Spring 1994), pp. 46-48
"Choice of Fingerings." American String Teacher, 40:3, (Summer 1990), pp. 66-70
"Cello: Trills and Grace Notes - Practical Musicology." Strings, IV:6 (May/June 1990), pp. 21-26
"Methods of Shifting." American String Teacher, 38:1 (Winter 1988), pp. 67-70

Music editions:

Starkweather, D. A., editor, "Pietro Locatelli, Sonata in D Major, Op. 6 No. 6 for Violoncello & Continuo," harpsichord realization by Egbert Ennulat. Artaria Editions Limited, Wellington, New Zealand, 1997
Starkweather, D. A., editor, "Pietro Locatelli, Sonata in D Minor, Op. 6 No. 12 for Violoncello & Continuo," harpsichord realization by Egbert Ennulat. Artaria Editions Limited, Wellington, New Zealand, 1997

Recordings:

Starkweather, D. A., and Rivkin, E., "Beethoven, Brahms & Britten Sonatas for Cello and Piano," Oasis CD, Sperryville, VA, 2002
Starkweather, D. A., and Rivkin, E., "Shostakovich and Rachmaninov Sonatas for Cello and Piano," Mark Records, Clarence, New York, 1998
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, "The Romantic Music of Arnold Schoenberg," Telarc CD-80372, 1994 (performed in the cello section)
Carmel Bach Festival, "Best of the Fest" compact disc recording, 1996

Starkweather, D. A. An Analysis of Elliott Carter's "Sonata for Cello and Piano," January 1983
Starkweather, D. A. Motivic Usage Within Bartók's Third Quartet in Relation to the Other Bartók String Quartets, September 1981

International

Tchaikovsky International Violoncello Competition, semifinalist, Moscow, USSR, Victor Uzur, June 1998
D'Angelo International Competition (Erie, Pennsylvania), accepted to semi-finals via tape preliminary round, Victor Uzur, February 1997

National

American String Teachers' Association National Young Artist Competition, Ann Arbor, Michigan: one of six national cello finalists, Victor Uzur, March 1998
Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Artist Competitions, Dallas, Texas: one of seven national finalists, Victor Uzur, March 1997
Rhodes Scholarship: Robert Sutherland, 1996

State

Georgia Cello Society Young Artist Competition, High School Division: first place winner, Abigail McCutcheon, January 1999
Georgia Cello Society Young Artist Competition, College Division: second place winner, Jenn Thomas Adams, January 1999
Georgia Cello Society Young Artist Competition, College Division: first place winner, Allie Rice, January 1997
Georgia Cello Society Young Artist Competition, College Division: first place winner, Victor Uzur, December 1995
Georgia Cello Society Young Artist Competition, College Division: second place winner, Jenn Thomas Adams, December 1995
Georgia Cello Society Young Artist Competition, High School Division: first place winner, Bo Yum, December 1995

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