Daniel Grosgurin
Swiss cellist, pedagogue and Daniel Grosgurin, born in Geneva, studied there with Pierre Fournier and in the USA with Janos Starker.
A laureate of international music competitions, he performed as soloist with orchestras such as “Orchestre de la Suisse Romande”, “Stuttgarter Philharmoniker”, “Tonkünstlerverein” in Vienna or “Eastern Music Festival” in the U.S. As a chamber music partner, he appeared with musicians like Alexandre Rabinovitch, Martha Argerich, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Valery Oistrakh, Pierre Amoyal or Augustin Dumay and was a guest of prestigious Festivals.
Together with his wife, Turkish-born cellist Ferhan Grosgurin, he founded the string ensemble “Les Solistes de Genève” which toured major European countries.
Daniel Grosgurin taught at Music Universities in Mannheim, Geneva, and the “Schola cantorum de Paris”. He gave masterclasses in many countries and is a sought-after teacher and player.
His interest in the interdisciplinary approach of performing led him to create exchanges with linguists, actors, dancers and sportspersons which form the backbone of his book, "Music & Other Muses - Crossing Boudaries: Classical Music in Context", published in 2025. Available under https://a.co/d/9t413rT
About The Book
This book explores the parallels between music and respectively language, theater, dance and sport from the point of view of instrumental performance. It is aimed principally at musicians, professionals and amateurs, as well as readers interested in the above fields and their interrelationships.
The purpose of its publishing is to open up the horizon towards parallel disciplines and thus explore how inspiration for musical performance can be drawn from other art forms. Leonard Bernstein declared: “Perhaps the principal thing I absorbed from Harvard was a sense of interdisciplinary values—that the best way to ‘know’ a thing is in the context of another discipline.” (The Unanswered Question, 3) This proposition forms the basis of the book’s investigations, which draw on printed material as well as “live” exchanges which took place in the past few years in Geneva, Switz.
The choice of English reflects the wish for the book to be widespread, in Europe as well as in the U.S. and beyond. The author has been active principally as a college cello professor and performer in Germany, Switzerland and France, occasionally also in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Japan, Korea and the U.S.