Considering his busy schedule with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which he joined in 1974, and his passionate efforts on behalf of the Chicago Cello Society, David Sanders is the "complete cellist." Founder and president for nineteen years of the Chicago Cello Society, he also was the editor of its newsletter, The Cello Scroll. In addition, he has organized and performed in concerts sponsored by the Society including the complete cello Sonatas of Beethoven and the complete etudes of David Popper. David's enthusiasm for his chosen instrument even extends to organizing cello choirs and giving master classes and seminars on orchestral playing.
He began playing cello at the age of fourteen in high school in Miami, Florida, and made his solo debut eighteen months later with the Miami Symphonic Society Orchestra. He was a scholarship student at the University of Miami and Florida State University summer orchestra festivals, the Eastern Music Festival, and the London Symphony Institute. His teachers include Bernice Schwartz, Dudley Powers, Frank Miller, Channing Robbins, and Raya Garbousova, and he has participated in master classes with Janos Starker, Zara Nelsova, and Lynn Harrell.
David has held principal cello positions with the Northwestern University concert and chamber orchestras, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Lake Forest Symphony, and the Florida Symphony. He also has played with the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra, the Grant Park Symphony, and the Milwaukee Symphony, and he has appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout the Midwest. David maintains an active interest in chamber music; he played with the Montagnana Trio for twenty-five years, and is the cellist of the Burnham String Quartet.
David has a dog, Rocky, and a cat, Blackcat, a stray he adopted. He owns one of the largest collections of rare books and autographs relating to string instruments in the world. Montagnana Books, his international company with customers as close as Chicago and as far away as Australia and Japan, deals in books and autographs pertaining to the string player.
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