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Author David Rezits was born in 1957 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Both David's parents are musicians, consequently he began to study piano at age six and cello at age seven. His first cello studies were with his mother, who is a cellist. He spent his formative years in Bloomington, Indiana, later attending Indiana University for his undergraduate music degree. He studied cello with Eva Janzer and Janos Starker during this period. In the year of his graduation he was offered a cello position with the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. David's concerts and travels took him to all parts of Brazil, including two months in the Amazon River region in northern Brazil. 
He returned to the United States in 1980 to begin working with cellist Bernard Greenhouse at State University of New York at Stony Brook. He also was chosen to be a member of the Stony Brook Graduate String Quartet. David completed his master of music degree at State University of New York in 1982. The following summer, David was on an airplane once again, heading to the Middle East to become principal cellist of the Haifa Symphony in northern Israel. David traveled throughout Israel concertizing during his two seasons with the Haifa Symphony. During the orchestra's "off season" he made his first trip to Europe and Scandinavia; enjoying the food and culture of this part of the world.
Returning to the United States in 1984, David began a year's apprenticeship in string instrument repair at the Indiana University School of Music. In July of 1985, he was selected to play for one season as an associate principal cellist with The Florida Orchestra in Tampa. Upon completion of that contract, he returned again to his hometown of Bloomington.
Due to much pain from long-standing chronic tendonitis in David's left arm, he made the difficult decision to end his cello career and pursue another profession. He resumed studies at Indiana University in January 1987, first concentrating in pre-veterinary medicine, then selecting counseling, in which he received a master of science in education degree three years later.
In 1991, after almost five years away from the cello, and missing his former music life, David decided once again to attempt to play the cello. With tremendous patience he began to restructure his cello technique and literally learn the instrument again from scratch. With very encouraging results he began to practice the instrument again and become reinvolved in the music community. He auditioned for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic later that year and was hired as a full-time musician. David also began teaching at colleges in the surrounding areas, including Indiana/Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Huntington College. and Goshen College.
David Rezits has worked with many renowned conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Gunther Schuller, Maurice Abravanel, Maxim Shostakovich and Robert Shaw.
In 1993, David performed on his first CD recording entitled Free Fall, a collection of compositions by classical guitarist and composer Sulaiman Zai.
David spends part of each summer at various music festivals around the world. He taught for five years at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in central Michigan and spent the summer in Trujillo, Peru at the Trujillo Music Festival. He has taught and performed in the Czech Republic, at the Czech Music Camp for Youth, since 2001 and recently taught and concertized with a professional cello ensemble in Quito, Ecuador. He also participates in the Wintergreen Music Festival situated in the mountains of eastern Virginia.
When not writing, cooking or practicing, David enjoys traveling, hiking, camping, jogging, biking, photography and reading the veterinary stories of author James Herriot. | | |
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