Violinist David Salness has toured extensively internationally, attaining wide recognition as a performer and teacher. His performances have been broadcast by NPR, Radio France, British Broadcast Corporation and Canadian Broadcast Corporation. Mr. Salness’s critically acclaimed recordings are found on the RCA, Telarc and Centaur Labels among others.
He has collaborated with many ensembles including the Amernet, Orford, Moscow, Juilliard, Guarneri and Cleveland Quartets. Mr. Salness has enjoyed a long association with New York’s Chautauqua Festival and has participated in Aspen’s Center for Advanced Quartet Studies and in Ravinia, Newport, Banff and Mostly Mozart Festivals. Mr. Salness was for twelve years a member of the Audubon Quartet and won the Deuxieme Grand Prix as a member of Nisaika in the 1984 Evian International String Quartet Competition.
Currently he is a member of the Left Bank Quartet and founding Co-Artistic Director of the Left Bank Concert Society, which appears regularly at the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Mr. Salness is a Professor at the University of Maryland and Director of Chamber Music.
