David Fetherolf

David Fetherolf was born in New York City in 1956. He started studying Violoncello at the age of five and has been involved with music ever since. While a non-degree student at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA in the late ’70s and early ’80’s Fetherolf switched his focus from instrumental performance to composition. He was awarded a Masters degree by the Purchase College Conservatory of Music in Purchase, NY in 1995.

Fetherolf’s music has been premiered and played throughout Europe, the United States, and Central and South America. He has received awards and grants from the American Music Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Helen F. Whitaker Fund, the Mamaroneck Schools Foundation and the Chase Manhattan Bank as well as several private grants and fellowships. His works have been premiered at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, at St. John’s, Smith Square, London, and have been selected to represent his country by the United States Information Agency. His music has been broadcast throughout the US and Europe.

Fetherolf has been involved with five International Festival of New Music for Orchestra programs in Olomouc, Czech Republic and received commissions from groups as diverse as The Mamaroneck Schools Foundation (USA) and the Gamavilla Quartet (CZ). He has also collaborated on various musical projects with artists as diverse as Chou Wen-chung (Varese editions and Chou’s own works) and Rick Scott, of Cuneiform recording artists Birdsongs of the Mesozoic.

More information on Fetherolf may be found at Skeeter Press. Recordings of several of his orchestral works are available on Vienna Modern Masters (in America from CDeMUSIC or directly from VMM). A CD of some of his chamber works for strings is available from Albany Records (Troy932).