The cellist and conductor David Geringas, born in Vilnius, Lithuania, is among the elite musicians of today. His unusually wide repertoire, ranging from the earliest Baroque to contemporary music, reflects his artistic versatility and curiosity. His intellectual rigor, stylistic diversity, melodic sensibility, and rich tone have earned him numerous awards worldwide. A student of Rostropovich and winner of the 1st Prize and Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition (1970), Geringas looks back on a decades-long career. He has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conducted by the greatest conductors of our time. His discography, comprising nearly 100 CDs, features many recordings that have received prestigious awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque for the recording of the 12 Cello Concertos by Luigi Boccherini, the Diapason d'Or d'Année for chamber music by Henri Dutilleux, and the German Record Critics' Award for his recordings of the cello concertos by Hans Pfitzner and for works for cello and piano by Alfred Schnittke. In 2013 and 2014, David Geringas was honored with the Echo Klassik award: in 2013 for the best chamber music recording of the 20th/21st centuries (Braunfels/Strauss, Profil Edition Günter Hänssler), and in 2014 for the best chamber music recording of the 19th century (“Pohádka”, C2 Hamburg/ES DUR).

A significant focus of his artistic work lies in his regular releases of outstanding CD recordings. Between 2008 and 2011, he released eight new recordings, including two world premieres ("David's Song" and "Discorsi", Profil Edition Günter Hänssler) as well as works for cello and piano by Sergei Rachmaninov (Hänssler Classic), Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Profil Edition Günter Hänssler), and Frédéric Chopin (Sony Music Entertainment). He also released all works for cello and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven (Hänssler Classic) with pianist Ian Fountain, a recording that was awarded the “Editor's Choice” by GRAMOPHONE. His "Bach plus" cycle, which introduces all six cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach with contemporary fragments by various composers, was released in October 2011 (Es-Dur) and received critical acclaim.

Renowned contemporary composers such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Ned Rorem, Peteris Vasks, and Erkki-Sven Tüür have dedicated cello concertos to David Geringas. He was the first musician to introduce many works of Russian and Lithuanian avant-garde to the West. The concerto in C major by Anatolijus Šenderovas, dedicated to Geringas, was premiered by him in 2002 and won the European Composer Award in Berlin.

In 2012, David Geringas premiered three world premieres: the concerto "in Memoriam" by Arvydas Malcys in Kaunas, the concerto for cello by Silvia Colasanti in Milan, and the cello concerto by Alexander Raskatov in Amsterdam.

As a conductor, David Geringas regularly appears on podiums both in Germany and abroad, often combining his roles as both conductor and cellist. His engagements take him to the leading music centers of Western and Eastern Europe (Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Auditorium Parco della Musica Rome, Wiener Musikverein, Tonhalle Zürich, Berliner Philharmonie, and others), as well as to Asia and the United States. From 2005 to 2008, he was the "Chief Guest Conductor" of the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra in Japan. In 2007, he made his debut with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and the China Philharmonic Orchestra. In February 2009, he debuted as a conductor with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2015 with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in St. Petersburg. His opera debut took place in 2010 with Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in Klaipeda, Lithuania. In 2015, David Geringas made his successful debut as musical director and conductor of the ballet Egle, Queen of Serpents by Eduardas Balsys in Vilnius.

David Geringas was a professor at the music conservatories in Hamburg (1977 to 1986), Lübeck (1980 to 2000), and at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin (2000 to 2009). Over several decades, he has led a globally celebrated cello class, from which cellists such as Gustav Rivinius, Jens Peter Maintz, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Monika Leskovar, Tatjana Vassilieva, Jing Zhao, Johannes Moser, Maximilian Hornung, and Sol Gabetta have emerged. For his worldwide dedication to Lithuanian music and its composers, David Geringas has received the highest honors from his home country. For his overall achievements as a musician and ambassador of German culture on the international music scene, he was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit 1st Class by the Federal Republic of Germany. In October 2011, David Geringas was honored by the "Gunter and Juliane Ribke Foundation Hamburg" for his outstanding contributions to music education. He is an honorary professor at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, as well as an honorary doctor of music at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In the winter semester of 2014/2015, David Geringas was a guest professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Manhattan School of Music in New York. On the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2016, David Geringas celebrated his anniversary year with concerts in Siena, Rheingau Festival, Enescu Festival, Usedom Festival, Berlin Philharmonic, Vilnius, Moscow, and St. Petersburg. In 2008, Maestro Geringas was awarded the gold medal by Armenia’s Minister of Culture, Asmik Pogosyan, for his significant contributions to the development of culture. In 2014, he received the “Carry Your Light and Believe” medal from Lithuania’s Minister of Culture, Šarūnas Birutis, for his exceptional contributions to the development of culture in Lithuania. In 2018, he chaired several juries for renowned competitions, such as the Schoenfeld International Cello Competition in Harbin and the George Enescu Cello Competition in Bucharest. He was also named an "Honored Artist of Musical Arts" by the International Union of Musical Arts of Russia, an accolade bestowed by Alexander Sokolov, rector of the Moscow Conservatory and president of the International Union of Musical Arts of Russia.

Professor David Geringas teaches exclusively at the Blackmore International Music Academy in Berlin.