Frank Sumner Dodge

Quick Facts

Full Name	Frank Sumner Dodge
Occupation	Cellist
Date Of Birth	Jan 3, 1950(1950-01-03)
Age	74
Birthplace	Boston
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Capricorn

Frank Sumner Dodge Biography

Frank Sumner Dodge is one of the most popular and richest Cellist who was born on January 3, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Frank Dodge performs on a cello played by Antonio Casini dated 1676 from Modena, Italy, and on a cello played by Jebran Yakoub from 2010 in Cremona, Italy.

Looking for a gap in the culture of this famously music-loving city Frank established Spectrum Concerts Berlin in 1988, in what was then West Berlin. The performances are captured with the help of Sender Freies Berlin on behalf of National Public Radio. The work of Sender Freies Berlin is supported by a number of committed foundations, individuals and companies which include The Ernst von Siemens Foundation in Munich and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Robert Helps Music Trust, the Korber Foundation and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. The former President of Germany Richard von Weizsacker became an honorary chairman in 2002 the support circle for Spectrum Concerts Berlin, and the former president referred to Frank Dodge as one of those “great artistic personalities” who are required to encourage cities that are culturally rich.

Two documentary films about Spectrum Concerts Berlin and Frank Dodge have been made: “Next Stop Manhattan – 20 Years Spectrum Concerts Berlin”, a 2008 film by Renate Lieberenz and Petra Kölsch for rbb Fernsehen, and “Sehnsucht Musik – Spectrum Concerts Berlin im Kosovo”, a 2013 film by Cetin Tutak und Marian Piper.

In February 2013 Dodge went with three fellow musicians to Prizren, Kosovo, to the music school Lorenc Antoni, to provide encouragement and inspiration where everything is missing (rooms, instruments, notes, books), but where young people from different religions and cultures have an opportunity for a peaceful coexistence; a 45-minute documentary film for rbb Radio Brandenburg called ″Sehsucht Musik – Forgotten Voices″ covered the visit. The musicians returned in May 2014, a visit documented by photographer Adil Razali. The connection is continuing with a campaign to help rebuild music schools in Kosovo.

Frank was a student of master classes by Janos Starker and Mstislav Rostropovitch and earned the B.M. at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and an M.Mus. at Yale University. Dodge was the founding participant of Yale’s Portsmouth Chamber Ensemble, winners in 1981 of the Artists International Competition in New York.

Frank Sumner Dodge Net Worth

Frank Sumner Dodge is one of the richest Cellist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Frank Sumner Dodge 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Frank Sumner Dodge (born January 3 1950) is an artist and director for chamber ensembles. Frank began his studies in cello at the age of 16. His teachers included Jacobus Langendoen, Alfred Zighera, Aldo Parisot, Pierre Fournier, Eberhard Finke and Maurice Gendron. He established the Strawbery Banke Chamber Music Festival, Inc. in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and was its artistic director and cellist from 1969 to 1980 and in 1997. He relocated from New Hampshire to Berlin, Germany in 1982 and created the privately funded Spectrum Concerts Berlin in 1988.

He was a resident of New York from 1978-1982 as an active member of the Opera Orchestra of New York as well as The St. Lukes Chamber Ensemble as well as The Orchestra of our Time and as the principal cellist for the Stamford Symphony, before moving to Berlin in 1982. Between 1983 and 1993, he played regularly in The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1984, the late Jesus Lopez-Cobos invited him to join of the Spanish National Orchestra. The Highlands tour as the principal cellist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Jaime Laredo followed in the spring of 1985. He has resided in Berlin since then.

Additional recordings include an album on New World Records (originally CRI) devoted to new chamber and solo music of David Del Tredici, Robert Helps, Jan Radzynski and Tison Street, and the piano quartets of Johannes Brahms co- produced by Sender Freies Berlin in 2000.

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