David Gerstein is currently the principal cellist of the Arkansas Symphony and cellist of the Quapaw String Quartet. He has appeared as a featured soloist with the Arkansas and Pine Bluff Symphonies, and performs frequently across the state, earning him the title of “the busiest classical musician in Arkansas” according the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Mr. Gerstein is a member of the cello section at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, CA and teaches cello at the Music in the Mountains Conservatory in Durango, CO. Mr. Gerstein is Co-Artistic Director of the East-West Virtuosi in Ashland, OR. Mr. Gerstein received a BM with distinction from the Eastman School of Music and an MM from Rice University. He is currently on faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.