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David Finckel

David Finckel is credited on 196 releases across 47 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1981–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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196

Pressings credited

47

Albums

5

Decades active

3

In collections

Biography

David Finckel (born December 6, 1951) is an American cellist and influential figure in the classical music world. The cellist for the Emerson String Quartet from 1979 to 2013, Finckel is currently the co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, co-founder of the independent record label ArtistLed, co-artistic director and co-founder of Music@Menlo in Silicon Valley, producer of Cello Talks, professor of cello at The Juilliard School, and visiting professor of music at Stony Brook University. Finckel frequently collaborates with pianist Wu Han. The two were married in 1985. They regularly perform on the chamber music series in the United States, as well as across Europe and Asia. They also appear in trio performances with violinist Philip Setzer and clarinetist David Shifrin, and as a piano quartet with violinist Daniel Hope and violist Paul Neubauer.

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Credited work

196 releases · 47 albums · active 1981–2023

  • Performance · 596
  • Production · 8
  • Other credits · 6

Studios: American Academy Of Arts And Letters · Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Speyer · LeFrak Hall, Queens College · Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Emerson String Quartet
  • Mozart
  • Beethoven
  • Schubert
  • Dvořák
  • Brahms
  • Haydn
  • Bach

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