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David Requiro, cello Annual Gift Concert— Sunday, January 11, 7pm
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Program
BEETHOVEN: Variations on Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen for Cello and Piano, WoO46
DEBUSSY: Sonata in D minor for Cello and Piano
BOLCOM: Capriccio for Violoncello and Piano
BRAHMS: Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano in F Major, Opus 99
CASSADÓ: Requiebros, Lamento de Boabdil, Danse du Diable Vert
ENCORE:
SULKHAN TSINTSADZE:
Arobnaya
About This Performance
The Naumburg Awards were conceived in 1925 by Walter Wehle Naumburg, a New York banker and life-long music lover born in 1867. Believing that young musicians needed New York reviews to launch their careers, he sponsored a series of auditions for young pianists and violinists in order to choose three who showed the most promise of benefiting from a recital in New York’s Town Hall. The Walter W. Naumburg Foundation was incorporated in 1926, its stated purpose being “to give public hearings for deserving music students.”
The first ever Naumburg competitions were for pianists and string players; singers were added in 1928. In 1965 an additional competition for chamber groups was begun, which has fostered a distinguished array of ensembles, including the Emerson, Muir and Ying String Quartets and the Peabody and Eroica Trios.
The competition now rotates between piano, strings and voice on a tri-annual basis, with some additional competitions for soloists (flute, clarinet and lately, classical guitar) added on occasion. The chamber music competition continues on a regular basis as a separate entity.
First-prize Naumburg winners receive $5,000 for career promotion, two recitals in Alice Tully Hall in New York’s Lincoln Center, a recording with Musical Heritage Records, and opportunities for residencies as well as other recitals and orchestral appearances.
Artist Biography
David Requiro, a first-prize winner of the 2008 Naumburg International Cello Award, is one of today’s most promising young cellists. At age 23, he has already captured first prizes in the inaugural National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloists’ Competition as well as the Irving M. Klein and Washington International String Competitions. In addition, he captured a top prize at the Gaspar Cassadó International Violoncello Competition in Hachioji, Japan, where he was also given the prize for best performances of the works by Gaspar Cassadó.
This season, Requiro will be making concerto appearances with the Santa Fe Symphony and the Marin Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Pro Musica in Boston, as well as with numerous orchestras in California and Ohio. Actively involved with contemporary music, Requiro has collaborated with composers Krzysztof Penderecki and Bright Sheng, as well as with members of the Aspen Percussion Ensemble, giving the Aspen Music Festival premiere of Tan Dun’s concerto for cello and percussion, Elegy: Snow in June.
He has also performed the European premieres of Lou Harrison’s Suite for Cello and Orchestra on tour to Italy with the Crowden School Orchestra. In February, he will complete performances of the complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas for Cello and Piano at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
As a former member of the Kashii String Quartet, he has served on faculty at the Innsbrook Music Festival and Institute, was the winner of Silver Medals in both the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition, as well as having recorded Aaron J. Kernis’s 100 Greatest Dance Hits with guitarist David Tanenbaum on the Blackbox label.
Requiro has worked with members of the Emerson, Takacs, Borromeo, Brentano, Orion, St. Lawrence and Juilliard String Quartets, as well as Isaac Stern in the 2001 “Stern Encounters” master-class series. In addition, he has collaborated with artists such as Atar Arad, Peter Frankl, Mikhail Kopelman, Cynthia Phelps, Gil Sharon and the Cavani String Quartet.
A former member of the New York Strings Seminar, Requiro has also performed in the Aspen Music Festival, Emerson String Quartet Seminar, Music@Menlo, Perlman Chamber Music Program and Giverny Chamber Music Festival. This past summer, he performed at Strings in the Mountains Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He is currently a member of the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players in New York City.
A native of Oakland, California, David Requiro began cello at age six and has studied with Dina Weinschelbaum, Milly Rosner, Bonnie Hampton and Mark Churchill. He has also worked closely with Michel Strauss. He has attended the Crowden School in Berkeley and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Massachusetts. For four seasons, he was principal cellist of both the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra of Boston. Requiro is currently pursuing his Master of Music degree at the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Richard Aaron. He received his Bachelor of Music degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Elizabeth DeMio is well-known as a collaborative pianist, recitalist and soloist in the Cleveland area. Besides appearing in over 100 concerts annually with local aspiring musicians, she has appeared frequently with soloists such as David Requiro, John Mack, John Clouser, Michel Strauss, Umberto Clerici, Massimo La Rosa and the Cavani Quartet. She has toured and given master classes in several cities in the US, Korea and Mexico.
As a soloist she performs often with the Trinity Cathedral Chamber Orchestra, a group in Cleveland following the tradition of daytime concerts in the great cathedrals of London. Together they have performed twenty Mozart concerti and the five Beethoven concerti as well as works by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Ravel and others.
She has also appeared as soloist for the Orquesta Sinfonica de Veracruz and the Orquesta de la UNAM in Mexico. As a recording artist, she is heard on the Crystal and Azica labels, most recently with works by Samuel Adler and a soon-to-be-released CD with works by Bernard Garfield, with John Clouser as soloist.
DeMio is on the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music in the collaborative piano department, as well as on the staff of the Encore School for Strings and the John Mack Oboe Camp. She holds degrees from CIM and the University of Michigan. Her teachers have included Vitya Vronsky and Theodore Lettvin.
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