David Soyer

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David Soyer (born February 24, 1923) is an American cellist.

He was born in Philadelphia and began playing the piano at the age of nine. At 11, he started the cello. One of his first teachers was Diran Alexanian. Later on he studied with Emmanuel Feuermann and Pablo Casals. He debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy in 1942, playing Ernest Bloch's Schelomo.

Chamber music has been a special love of his. He was a founding member of the Guarneri Quartet in 1964 and played with them until retiring from the quartet in 2002. As a member of the Guarneri he collaborated with many of the world's most famous classical musicians including Leonard Rose, the Budapest String Quartet, Pinchas Zukerman, and Artur Rubinstein. He gave the New York premiere of the solo cello sonata by Zoltán Kodály at The Town Hall in Manhattan. Additionally, he also gave the New York premiere of the sonata for solo cello by American composer George Crumb. Before joining the quartet he played in various venues including the Army Band during World War II and later with the NBC Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Arturo Toscanini. He currently lives in New York City.

Soyer is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Juilliard School.

He has taught many of today's most prominent contemporary cellists and musicians. He spends his summers teaching and performing at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.