德国柏利汉，塞思勒音乐学院。中央音乐学院客座教授。被誉为“继罗斯特罗波维奇之后最为出色的大提琴大师”兼大提琴家和指挥家，是这个时代最多才多艺的音乐家之一。世界著名指挥如西蒙·拉特、克里斯多夫·艾森巴赫、查尔斯·迪图瓦、阿什肯纳齐、迈克尔·提尔森·托马斯和罗斯特罗波维奇等都与其有过成功的合作。他录制发行了50余张唱片，曾荣获法国的唱片大奖，金色音叉大奖，还是至今唯一获得“德国唱片评论家年度奖”这个殊荣的大提琴演奏家。获1970年柴科夫斯基音乐大赛金质奖章。荣获法国的唱片大奖，金色音叉大奖。唯一获得“德国唱片评论家年度奖。
David Geringas has performed as soloist with the greatest orchestras around the globe, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Czech Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia, NHK Symphony and Israel Philharmonic, under such esteemed conductors of our time as Gerd Albrecht, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt, Andrey Boreyko, Myung-whun Chung, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Lawrence Foster, Valery Gergiev, Paavo Jarvi, Kirill Kondrashin, Krzysztof Penderecki, Simon Rattle, Mstislav Rostropovich, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Yuri Temirkanov, Klaus Tennstedt and Michael Tilson Thomas. He is a regular guest at several major chamber music festival and has a vast repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, much of which he has recorded, being awarded the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy in 1989. He is a cello professor in Berlin.Important contemporary composers such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Pēteris Vasks and Erkki-Sven Tüür have dedicated new compositions to Geringas. In July , Anatolijus Senderovas’ composition “David’s Song for Cello and String Quartet” was premièred in Kronberg – a dedication to Geringas’s 60th birthday.
