Violinist -

Prior to his appointment as President of The Cleveland Institute of Music in 1985, David Cerone served on the faculty of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music for nine years and for ten years was Chairman of the CIM String Department. He was Director of the Meadowmount School of Music and member of its faculty for nineteen summers. In 1975, he joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and was appointed Chairman of the Violin Department.

He and his wife, violinist Linda Sharon Cerone, founded the nationally acclaimed ENCORE School for Strings in Hudson, Ohio, in 1985. Mr. Cerone made his Cleveland Orchestra solo debut in 1987. He is associated with many prominent national and international music competitions, such as the Indianapolis International Violin Competition, the Paganini Competition, and the Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award. Mr. Cerone's extremely popular recordings of the Suzuki Violin Method Books I through IV have recently been reissued by Warner/Chapell. He is a board member of University Circle, Inc. and the Avery Fisher Artist Program and a member of the Leadership Cleveland Class of 1989. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.