David Cerone was a co-founder of the ENCORE School for Strings, where he co-directed and served as faculty member since 1985. Mr. Cerone serves as a juror for many prominent national and international violin competitions and presents master classes around the world. An active chamber musician, he toured extensively with the Canterbury Trio from 1984 to 1989, under Columbia Artist Management. He was a Director of the

Meadowmount School of Music The Meadowmount School of Music, founded in 1944 by Ivan Galamian, is a 7-week summer school in the town of Lewis, Essex County, New York, Lewis (mailing address Westport, New York, Westport) in Upstate New York for young violinists, cellists, vio ...

and member of its faculty for 19 summers. Mr. Cerone is a board member of University Circle, Inc. and the Avery Fisher Artist Program. He is an Auxiliary Director of the International Board of the Suzuki Association. He was Professor of Violin at

Oberlin Conservatory The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a private music conservatory of Oberlin College, a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1865 and is the second oldest conservatory and oldest continually operating conservatory in ...

from 1962 to 1971 and Chairman of the String Department and Kulas Professor at the

Cleveland Institute of Music The Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) is a private music conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio. The school was founded in 1920 by a group of supporters led by Martha Bell Sanders and Mary Hutchens Smith, with Ernest Bloch serving as its first dire ...

(CIM) from 1971 to 1981. He was a member of the violin faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1975 to 1985 and head of its violin department from 1981 to 1985. Mr. Cerone's extremely popular recordings of the Suzuki Violin Method Books I through IV have been reissued by Alfred Publishing. He presented a series of master classes, lectures and a recital for the Talent Education Research Institute's Teachers Convention in Hamamatsu, Japan, the first foreigner to address this illustrious group, and has performed in the St. Barts Music Festival for three seasons. Mr. Cerone served as president of CIM from 1985 to 2008. In 2011, David Cerone received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cleveland Arts Prize for his work with CIM and the arts community in Cleveland.

Positions

* Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 1962–1971 *

, 1971–1981, String Department Chair * Curtis Institute of Music, 1975–1985, Violin Department Chair, 1981–1985 *

, 1985–present, President, 1985–2008

References

External links

Faculty Biography at CIMSuzuki Recordings at amazon.com
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Cleveland Institute of Music faculty American male violinists American music educators 21st-century American violinists 21st-century American male musicians {{violinist-stub