David Salness
violin

DAVID SALNESS, a highly respected teacher and performer on violin and viola, is on the University of Maryland faculty as Head of Chamber Music Studies and Associate Professor of Violin. Coming from a musical family, Mr. Salness began his violin study as a child with his father as his first teacher. He graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy and continued his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Curtis Institute. His teachers have included David Cerone, Ivan Galamian, Josef Gingold, Jascha Brodsky, Zoltan Szekely, Felix Galimir and Karen Tuttle.

Mr. Salness is an alumnus of the Cleveland Chamber Music Seminar and the Aspen Festival's Center for Advanced Quartet Studies. As a member of Nisaika, he won the Deuxiéme Grand Prix at the 1983 Evian International String Quartet Competition.

As a member of the internationally renowned Audubon Quartet, Mr. Salness toured throughout Europe, North and South America, and has recorded on the RCA, Telarc and Centaur labels. He has collaborated with some of the world's greatest chamber musicians, including members of the Guarneri, Cleveland and Juilliard Quartets and has appeared with such noted ensembles as the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, Orpheus and the Brandenburg Ensemble of New York.

Mr. Salness began his teaching career as assistant to David Cerone at the Meadowmount School and the Curtis Institute. He has served on the faculties of the Chautauqua Festival and Virginia Tech University. His studio includes many prize-winning students.

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