János Starker

John Starker ( 5 juillet 1924 in Budapest and died on28 avril 2013) in Bloomington , Indiana , is a Hungarian cellist and teacher, who became an American citizenin 1954 . Starker studied the cello from the age of six. After having followed courses at the prestigious Franz-Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest , where Bartók works , he joined the Philharmonic Orchestra and the Budapest Opera Orchestra, where he became Principal Cello. During World War II , he survives, but sees almost all of his family exterminated during the Shoah . In 1948 , he left for the United States, where he would play in various groups: the Dallas Symphony Orchestra , the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra , then the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Since 1958 he is professor in the music school Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University in Bloomington 3 . He is a friend of pianist György Sebök , who also teaches at the same school. From time to time he gives master classes all over the world. Under his reputation as an icy man - he defines himself as "the one whose inner flame freezes the air around him" - hides an exceptional virtuoso, of great sensitivity, considered one of the greatest artists of his time in his specialty. If he continued to teach until the winter of 2012, Janos Starker stops on stage in 2005 due to declining health 4 . He died onApril 28, 2013, in Bloomington , Indiana , at the age of 88.