| JANOS STARKER: A Life in Music |
| Early years | Born July 5, 1924 in Budapest, Hungary to music-loving parents who introduced him to music at an early age, he began his study of the cello at the age of six, decided on a career as solo cellist at nine, and at eleven began performing in public. |
| Early career | Following his studies at Budapest's Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he joined the Budapest Opera Orchestra and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, rising to the position of first cellist. |
| American beginnings | In
1948, following a year in Paris, he was brought to Dallas by the Hungarian
conductor Antal Dorati where he became the principal cellist of the
Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In 1949, determined to build a career based in America, he become principal cellist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra which at the time was being fine-tuned by the great Hungarian-born conductors Fritz Reiner and George Szell. In 1952, Fritz Reiner left the Met for the Chicago Symphony and took Janos Starker with him to become the orchestra's principal cellist, a post he held for the next 6 years. In 1958 he joined the faculty of the School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington (where today he holds the title of Distinguished Professor). He pursued his international solo career in earnest in the same year, becoming the first recipient of the Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, an honor given by the University to a faculty member who has achieved distinction both as teacher and artist. |
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| Summerfest La Jolla '99 |
| Rostropovich |
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Kendall Reeves Courtesy: LJCMS