Steven Honigberg

Steven Honigberg is an American cellist. He is a member of the National Symphony Orchestra and the Potomac String Quartet. From 1994 to 2002, Honigberg served as chamber music series director at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, during which time the museum produced forty concerts and issued four CDs. From 1990 to 2009, he was principal cellist and chamber music director of the Edgar M. Bronfman series in Sun Valley, Idaho, where he was featured as soloist with the summer symphony in a variety of concerti. Hongiberg solos frequently; he is also known as a well-reviewed performer from David Ott's premier of Concerto for Two Cellos. A native of Chicago, Honigberg presented eight performances of Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme" with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as a 16-year-old winner of Chicago's Youth Competition. The summer before, Honigberg, as a result of winning the 1978 Concerto Competition, performed with the World Youth Symphony as soloist in Bloch's "Schelomo", a performance that was recorded and released by the National Music Camp. Honigberg graduated from the Juilliard School with a master's degree in 1984. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)