Cellist David Starkweather has a distinguished international career as performer and professor of cello at the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music in Athens. He was a semifinalist in the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition. Starkweather attended the Eastman School of Music, then graduate studies with Bernard Greenhouse at SUNY Stony Brook, followed by post-doctoral studies in Switzerland with Pierre Fournier. A foremost expert on the manuscripts of the Bach suites, Starkweather’s 3-DVD set received a Creative Research medal in 2009, and his pdf edition of the suites has been given a research award in 2021. His website is starkweatherdavid.com.