David Cerutti, viola

David Cerutti performs internationally as violist and violist d'amoré. He enjoys a diverse musical life encompassing chamber music, recording, orchestral and solo performances and appears regularly in the U.S. and abroad with groups such as the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

A former member of the Smithson String Quartet, he is a founding member of Trigon and has been guest artist with the Brentano String Quartet, the Cygnus Ensemble, and the Elements Quartet. He collaborated with members of Archibudelli on a recording of the Mendelssohn and Gade string octets, for the Sony Classical label. His unedited performance of Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto was chosen by National Public Radio as one of seven best live recordings of Bach from "Performance Today," and was subsequently released as a CD.

Cerutti is a regular participant in the Helicon Concert series in New York, and performed as featured soloist in Athanasia Tzanou's Epigramma I on the Double Exposure series at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. This Fall, he will premiere several works of Frances White and Elizabeth Brown, on the Interpretations Series in New York City.

He is an active composer and most recently has written a short song cycle for mezzo soprano and viola, as well as a piece for narrator and viola d'amoré.

BACK