STEVEN HONIGBERG was hired under the leadership of Mstislav Rostropovich to become a member of the National Symphony Orchestra. In 1988 he performed the world premiere of David Ott’s Concerto for Two Cellos conducted by Slava and the NSO with repeat performances on two NSO United States tours. His latest solo appearance with the NSO occurred in 2015 in performances of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Triple Cello Concerto with the NSO’s Music Director Christoph Eschenbach. For a decade, Mr. Honigberg was Director of the Chamber Music series at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Six recordings emerged from the series. With the Potomac Quartet, a landmark eleven quartets of David Diamond were released on Albany Records in 2010. For 20 summers Honigberg was principal cellist and chamber music director in Sun Valley, Idaho where he was featured as soloist in concerti by Barber, Bartók, Bloch, Boccherini, Dvorák, Elgar, Goldschmidt, Haydn, Korngold, Popper, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Walton. As author, in 2010 his first book was published: Leonard Rose: America’s Golden Age and Its First Cellist.