JANOS STARKER

Hungarian by birth, János Starker began playing the cello when he was only six years old and was performing in public by the age of eleven. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and went on to become first cellist with both the Budapest Opera and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra.

Starker emigrated to the United States in 1948 and, throughout the next ten years, held the position of principal cellist with the Dallas Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1958, while holding careers as both a professor at the Indiana University School of Music and an international soloist, he became the first recipient of Indiana University’s Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, designed to be given to a faculty member who excelled as both an artist and a teacher.

Starker has toured all over the United States and has also played in Japan, Korea and Canada. He has recorded over 165 works, one of them (his interpretation of Martinu ’s Sonata for cello and piano) receiving a Grammy nomination in 1993. Starker is widely known as one of the most skilled cellists of the 20th Century. He has taught outstanding performers like Maria Kliegel, Gary Hoffman and Paul Katz and continues to perform and teach master classes all around the world.

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