Cellist
David Carter is Professor of Music at St. Olaf
College. He holds degrees from the University of Minnesota, Indiana
University
and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Carter's
principal
cello teachers include Robert Jamieson, Gary Hoffman, Janos Starker and
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi.
Though
legally blind as a result of the retinal disease
choroideremia, Dr. Carter maintains an active performing and teaching
schedule.
He is cellist of the Melius Trio, Artistic Director of the Bridge
Chamber Music
Festival, and recently served as Cello Editor for the Minnesota String
Teachers
Association newsletter, StringNotes. Dr. Carter has served as Principal
Cellist of the Wichita Symphony, performing as soloist with that
ensemble in
addition to the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
He has
been on the faculty of Wichita State University, as well as the Rocky
Ridge
Music Center and currently the Red Lodge Music Festival and the
Interlochen
Summer Music Camp.
Dr.
Carter can be heard on two recordings on the Centaur label, in “3
Pieces for
Solo Cello” by Phillip Rhodes and works by Amy Beach, and on the
Limestone label with the Melius Trio in trios by Mendelssohn, Clarke
and Peter Hamlin. He performs on either an instrument by G. B.
Ceruti (1810, Cremona) or by David
Folland (2008, Northfield, MN.)