David Kealhofer '13, cello
Sat, May 7th, 2011
4:00 pm
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The Williams College Department of Music will present a senior recital featuring David Kealhofer ’13 on Saturday, May 7 at 4 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus. This free event is open to the public.
Kealhofer will be playing music by Shostakovitch, Schubert, and Prokofiev.
He will be joined by pianists Akemi Ueda ’11 and Mathhew Zhou ’12.
David Kealhofer has played the cello since he was five years old. From the San Francisco Bay Area, he has studied with Irene Sharp and Jennifer Culp. He has performed the D minor, C Major, C minor, and D Major suites in the annual Junior Bach Festival, and has performed in two family concerts in the Carmel Bach Festival. In 2005, he joined a quartet that participated in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s preparatory division and, in 2006, the Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Seminar. He was a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2005 until 2009, with whom he toured Germany and the Czech Republic in 2008. Earlier that season he had been a finalist in the Youth Orchestra’s Concerto Competition, the most prestigious competition in the Bay Area. He was principal cellist for the 2008-2009 season. He has been a California runner-up and national semi-finalist in the American String Teacher’s Association competition, three-time finalist in the Oakland East Bay Symphony’s Concerto Competition, second-place winner in the Pacific Musical Society Competition, and Honorable Mention in the OEBS Concerto Competition and National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts’ youngARTS competition. David enjoys reading, physics, riding his bicycle, Beethoven, and glide.