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Born in Lithuania, David Geringas is one of the most versatile musicians of our time. As a cellist and as a conductor, he performs an unusually broad repertoire ranging from the earliest Baroque to contemporary music.

The Zurich-based Gringolts Quartet was founded in 2008 at Schloss Elmau, born from mutual friendships and chamber music partnerships that began at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England.

When he became music director in Cologne after the war at the age of thirty-three, Günter Wand insisted from the start on the inclusion of contemporary music in order to restore musical life amid the material and intellectual ruins.

In particular, he wanted to bring back into German musical life the composers who had been forbidden and persecuted by the Nazis, and include them with Classical and Romantic repertoire in the "normal" subscription concerts, not in special concert series.