The School of Music is pleased to welcome distinguished guest artist David Geber for a cello masterclass with Puget Sound student performers. Geber will share his expertise in this free event open to the public as part of a three-day Cello Celebration! 

David Geber had his early musical training in Los Angeles, where he was raised in a family of professional cellists. He holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Juilliard School. Geber has been recipient of numerous cello and chamber music awards, including the Walter W. Naumburg Award and the Coleman Chamber Music Prize. He has appeared as soloist at Tanglewood Music Center and Aspen Music Festival, as well as with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Montreal Symphony. A strong supporter of new music, he has premiered numerous works for cello as well as for varied chamber combinations. As founding cellist of the American String Quartet, he concertized and recorded internationally with that ensemble for nearly thirty years, having given concerts in all 50 of the United States and playing up to 100 annual engagements. He is director of chamber music at Manhattan School of Music in New York City and is artist/faculty at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Cello Celebration events, free and open to the public:

• Thursday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. Geber will be performing in a concert joined by guest artist Randolph Kelly, viola, Alistair MacRae, Cordelia Wikarski-Miedel Artist in Residence at the University of Puget Sound, cellist of the Puget Sound Piano Trio, principal cello of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and acting principle cello of Symphony Tacoma; as well as music faculty members Maria Sampen, violin; and music students. This is a ticketed event for the general public, free for students when they present school ID at the door. Calendar link.
• Wednesday, March 12 at noon: Chamber music masterclass in Trimble Hall, Trimble Forum.
• Wednesday, March 12 at 5:30 p.m.: Cello masterclass with student performers in Kilworth Memorial Chapel.