Welcome to my website. I am a native Seattle cellist and give recitals, perform in chamber music groups, give cello lessons and play at events here in the Pacific Northwest. My next recital is at the Chapel performance Center in Wallingford. Here is a link to the flyer for this recital. I will be playing with Akiko Kinney who is a terrific pianist and I feel very fortunate to hve her on board for this exciting upcoming recital.
     I perform recitals with other pianists including composer/pianist Peter V. Stevens and also with pianist Lisa Maria d'Aquila. On the recitals page you can find when and where you can see us perform. I also have listed some other cello concerts you may be interested in going to.
     To the benefit of myself and my students, I continue to learn more about cello technique. Since graduating from Juilliard, where I studied with Leonard Rose and Harvey Shapiro, I have also studied with Eric Wilson ( 2nd place Geneva Competition) and James Kreger Assistant to Harvey Shapiro for 25 years and winner of the Tchaikovsky competition.
    Our next student recital is on April 25th 2012 at 7 PM at the Chapel Performance center which is located at 50th and Sunnyside Av. in Wallingford. Our featured soloist, Sam Kuo, will perform 4 works including a Romberg Duet. Sam just turned 6 and has played several recitals. Here is a link to his most recent recital. Other works include a cello quartet called Opera for Tron ( from the movie ). Tera Silver Rain will perform part of the 2nd movement of the Dvorak cello concerto and Iman Hein will be playing the prelude from the Bach cello Suite in C major. Everything from pop to Bach and it should be a lot of fun. We all hope you can come out on Wednesday April 25th for this student cello recital.
     On the 24th of April I will perform the Shelomo Cello Concerto with Pianist Akiko Kinney. We will also play Kol Nedrei by Max Bruch with a surprise opening piece for cello and piano. This rectal is also at the Chapel Performance center at 7:00 PM. Shelomo is a very beautiful piece with a very difficult piano accompaniment. Two recitals back to back! I hope you can attend them both. If you have any questions about these recitals please contact me at 206-384-1123.

Don Larson     
  

PS Here are some photos from our last student recital