DAVID SCHEPPS
David Schepps is cello professor at the University of New Mexico, member of the New Mexico Symphony, and spends summers in the Grand Teton (WY) Music Festival, where he gives orchestra and chamber concerts with major orchestra players from around the world. As soloist and chamber musician he was featured on NPR’s "Performance Today," the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the NY Lincoln Center Library, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, various series in the southwest, and many radio broadcasts. He played Bloch's "Schelomo" with the New Mexico Symphony, was soloist with the Christchurch Chamber Orchestra in New Zealand, the Wichita Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic and other regional, university, community and youth orchestras. Formerly principal of the Wichita and Baton Rouge Symphonies and Arizona Opera Wagner Ring Cycles, he also played with the Santa Fe Opera, Kansas City and Phoenix Symphonies, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva and Orquesta Sinfonica de Veracruz in Mexico. Schepps was cello professor and member of the Fairmount Quartet at Wichita State University, and on the faculty of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was a Fulbright/ITT student of Pierre Fournier (subject of his doctoral thesis), studied with Juilliard professor Harvey Shapiro, holds a DMA from Arizona State (with Takayori Atsumi), a BM degree from the Mannes College of Music (with Claus Adam of the Juilliard Quartet), and was a student of Timothy Eddy and Thomas Liberti (NY Philharmonic/Cleveland Orchestra).
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