David Carter, Cello

David Carter, Associate Professor of Music at St. Olaf College, is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Indiana University, and the University of Illinois. His cello teachers have included Robert Jamieson, Janos Starker, Gary Hoffman and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. A finalist in the Emanuel Feuermann Cello Competition, Dr. Carter frequently performs solo recitals and chamber music nationally. Though legally blind as a result of the retinal disease choroideremia, maintains an active performance schedule as Artistic Director of the Bridge Chamber Music Festival and faculty artist at the Red Lodge Music Festival in Montana and Rocky Ridge Music Center in Colorado. He is also cello editor for String Notes magazine, and a founding member of the Melius Trio. Carter has performed as soloist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra and the Wichita Symphony. He has served on the faculties of Wichita State University and Illinois Wesleyan University, and has been Principal Cellist of the Wichita Symphony.