David Gross has performed extensive solo concerts both in the United States and Europe, including performances with the Berliner Symphoniker, Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder, Ensemble Oriol (Berlin), Rockford Symphony, Champaign-Urbana Symphony, Macon Symphony, Idaho Civic Symphony, Greenville Symphony, Brevard Philharmonic, Anderson Symphony, Merrimack Valley Philharmonic, and Hendersonville Symphony, as well as several university orchestras throughout the United States. He has been a featured soloist for the American Liszt Society National Conference, and has performed several recitals for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago. Gross has numerous recorded solos that were broadcast for German NPR, and he was featured in the German National Public Television film “Singing Hands” (ARTE). His recording of the Lalo Piano Concerto with the Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder was an “engaging and honed performance” (Fono Forum), and his 2010 release of Voříšek piano works is available on Centaur Records.

An active chamber musician, David Gross is a founding member of the Poinsett Piano Trio with Deirdre and Christopher Hutton. The trio has performed throughout the Southeastern US and Europe, on extensive tours of New Zealand, and several times as part of the US Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

David Gross grew up in Berlin and studied piano in Germany from a young age, and holds a Diploma from the Hochschule München, a Master’s Degree from the Yale School of Music, an Artist’s Diploma from the Hochschule Hannover, and a Doctoral Degree from the University of Illinois. His principal teachers include Ludwig Hoffmann, Arie Vardi, Daniel Pollack, Claude Frank, and John Wustman. He has held positions at different universities, including Resident Artist at Western Michigan University, Visiting Associate Professor at Goshen College, Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), and Professor at Furman University, where he has taught for twenty years. Dr. Gross has been a featured lecturer and performer at the Goethe Institute in Boston, national conferences of the College Music Society and the Music Teachers National Association, and local MTNA chapters throughout the Southeast.

Honors

• Marsala International Piano Competition, 5th Prize
• Bremen International Piano Competition, Special Award
• Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship (National Competition)

Education

• D.M.A., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
• Artist's Diploma, (Konzertdiplom)Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover
• M.M., Yale University School of Music
• B.M., Staatliche Hochschule für Musik München (Munich/Germany) Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy

Training Under:

• Elisabeth Dounias-Sindermann, Childhood
• Ingeborg Peukert, Pre-College
• Ludwig Hoffmann, Hochschule München
• Arie Vardi, Hochschule Hannover
• Daniel Pollack, Yale School of Music
• Claude Frank, Yale School of Music
• John Wustman, University of Illinois