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4 unusual facts about David Finckel


David Finckel

In 1997, David Finckel and Wu Han launched ArtistLed, classical music’s first musician-directed and Internet-based recording company, whose catalogue of sixteen albums has won widespread acclaim.

David performs and records frequently in collaboration with pianist Wu Han, whom he married in 1985.

A member of the Emerson String Quartet since 1979, David has participated in over thirty acclaimed recordings produced with Deutsche Grammophon since 1987, nine Grammy Awards (including two for best classical album, an unprecedented honor for a chamber music group), three Gramophone Awards, the coveted Avery Fisher Prize and cycles of the complete Beethoven, Bartók, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich string quartets in the world's musical capitals.

Emerson String Quartet

Long-time cellist David Finckel was replaced at the end of the 2012/13 concert season by Paul Watkins.



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