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Happy Birthday To New Rochelle’s David Starobin

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- Happy Birthday to New Rochelle’s David Starobin!

David Starobin, turns 63 on Saturday.

David Starobin, turns 63 on Saturday.

David Starobin, who lives in New Rochelle, turns 63 on Saturday.

Starobin, a classical guitarist, record producer, composer, writer and film maker, was born Sept. 27, 1951, in New York City. Starobin has headed guitar departments at Brooklyn College, Bennington College, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the State University of New York at Purchase, and, from 1993 to 2004, the Manhattan School of Music. He remains on the faculty at Manhattan School of Music (2013). He was appointed "Fondation Charidu Chair in Guitar Studies" at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Starobin was the first guitarist to have been awarded Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Career Grant, in 1988. He was honored by Peabody Conservatory with its "Distinguished Alumni Award." Starobin was inducted into the Guitar Foundation of America's "Hall of Fame" and was given the GFA's "Artistic Achievement Award".

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