Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Mr. Honigberg has a wealth of experience performing and directing chamber music concerts and presenting solo recitals and concertos with orchestras in the United States and in Europe. He was the Director of the Chamber Music series at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC for ten years where he premiered a number of new works by such composers as Lukas Foss, Benjamin Lees, Robert Starer and David Diamond. He has recorded extensively with the Potomac String Quartet, including the nine string quartets composed by Americans Quincy Porter and the eleven quartets of David Diamond. Hired by the late Mstislav Rostropovich to join the National Symphony Orchestra and heralded as a "sterling cellist" by the Washington Post, STEVEN HONIGBERG gave his New York debut recital in Weill Hall. Honigberg has been featured numerous times as soloist with the NSO; most recently in May 2015 in a pair of performances at the Kennedy Center of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Triple Cello Concerto with NSO Music Director Christoph Eschenbach conducting. He won rave reviews for the 1988 world premiere of David Ott's Concerto for Two Cellos performed with the National Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, with repeat performances on the NSO's 1989 and 1994 United States tours. From 1990-2009, Honigberg was principal cellist, chamber music director in Sun Valley, Idaho where he was featured as soloist with the summer symphony in concerti by Barber, Bartók, Bloch, Boccherini, Dvořák, Elgar, Goldschmidt, Haydn, Korngold, Popper, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, and Walton. Mr. Honigberg is a member of Gerard Schwarz's All-Star Orchestra, which in August 2012 convened in New York City to record 8 one-hour programs for PBS television. As author, in 2010 his first book was published: Leonard Rose: America’s Golden Age and Its First Cellist. Honigberg performs on a Lorenzo Storioni cello made in Cremona in 1789.
Chosen by Mstislav Rostropovich to join the world class National Symphony Orchestra during Maestro's lauded 17-year tenure.
Two performances at the Kennedy Center concert hall with famed German conductor Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director of NSO. Panufnik performed with Aukso Chamber Orchestra, Marek Mos, conductor: performance on youtube https://youtu.be/UbtphO9j3WI