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List Of Cellists
A person who plays the cello is called a cellist. This list of notable cellists is divided into four categories: 1) Living Classical Cellists; 2) Non-Classical Cellists; 3) Deceased Classical Cellists; 4) Deceased Non-Classical Cellists. The cello (/ˈtʃɛloʊ/ chel-oh; plural cellos or celli) is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments. Living classical cellists A * Sophie Adam French cellist * Jamal Aliyev (born 1993, Azerbaijan) *Nicolas Altstaedt (born 1982, Germany) *Tanya Anisimova (born 1966, Russian, also a composer) *Julian Armour (born 1960, Canadian) B * Michael Bach (born 1958, Germany, also composer and visual artist) *Soo Bae (born 1977, Korean-Canadian, living in United States) *Zuill Bailey (born 1972, United States) *Alexander Baillie (born 1956, England) * Matthew Barley (born 1965, England) *Maya Beiser (born 1968, Israel, moved to the United States, new classic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Beiser
Maya Beiser (born 31 December 1963) is an American musician, cellist, performing artist and producer who lives in New York City. Beiser was raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentine father, and graduated from Yale University School of Music. She has been described by the Boston Globe as "a force of nature", "a cello goddess" by ''The New Yorker'' and "the reigning queen of the avant-garde cello" by ''The Washington Post''. Beiser is a 2015 United States Artists Distinguished Music Fellow and the Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology. Biography Maya Beiser was born 31 December 1963 in Gazit, a kibbutz in Israel. Her mother was French, her father Argentinian. As a child, she played the piano before switching to the cello. At age twelve, she was discovered by the violinist Isaac Stern and embarked on a solo career. Beiser graduated from Yale University School of Music in 1987. She collaborated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Carr
Colin Carr (born 25 October 1957) is a British cello soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher. Biography Born in Liverpool, Carr is professor of cello at the Royal Academy of Music. He taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston for 16 years before joining the Royal Academy's faculty. He is also affiliated with the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Carr has won many prestigious international awards, including First Prize in the Naumburg Competition, the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Award, Second Prize in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition and the Young Concert artists competition. Carr began playing at the age of five, and studied with Maurice Gendron. He also attended the Yehudi Menuhin School. He formerly played the 'Marquis de Corberon' Stradivari cello, formerly played by Zara Nelsova and now played by Steven Isserlis, and owned by the Royal Academy of Music. He now plays a Venetian cello made by Matteo Goffriller. He lives with his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gautier Capuçon
With Jean-Claude Casadesus Gautier Capuçon (born 3 September 1981) is a French cellist. Biography Gautier Capuçon was born in Chambéry, Savoie, the youngest of three siblings. His brother is the violinist Renaud Capuçon. He started learning the cello when he was four years old.Gautier Capuçon interview, Borletti-Buitoni Trust, London, 2004''La Croix'', 1 December 200"Renaud et Gautier Capuçon frères d'archet"/ref> He began his formal musical education in his hometown at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Chambéry, where he graduated with first prizes in cello and in piano. In Paris, he studied the cello initially with Annie Cochet-Zakine, who had heard him in Chambéry and brought him with her to the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris (CNR), where he graduated in 1997 with the first prize in cello. He then became a pupil of cello pedagogue Philippe Muller at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMP), where he graduated in 2000 with first prizes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Beitan
Maxim Viktorovich Beitan (Latvian:Maksims Beitāns) (Russian: Максим Викторович Бейтан) (born 25 November 1986) known as Max Beitan, is a Latvian cellist. He is the winner of 18 international competitions five of them Grand Prix Awards. Max Beitan tours and performs extensively in Europe, the US and Asia and is famous by his virtuosic repertoire. Beitan currently resides in Lugano, Switzerland. Early life Beitan was studying with Johannes Goritzki, Victoria Yagling and Natalia Gutman. When Beitan was four, he began his first cello studies in Latvia with Irina Titarenko in Jelgava, Latvia. At the age of five, Beitan had his first solo concert and at the age of six, he was invited to perform at a concert that was broadcast on National Latvian Television (Latvian: Latvijas Televīzija) where was awarded by the Latvian composer Raimods Pauls. Since his early childhood, Beitan performed all over Europe and has won 18 international music competitions, five of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Butt
William Moore Butt (1805–1888) was a politician in Georgia. Butt arrived in Atlanta in 1851 from Campbell County, Georgia Campbell County was a county of the U.S. state of Georgia from to . It was created by the state legislature on December 20, 1828, from land taken from Fayette, Coweta, and Carroll counties, and from the half of DeKalb County which became Fu ..., where he had been an Inferior Court judge, and became a merchant.Garrett (1969) p.353 He served as a councilman in 1853. The next year he was elected the eighth mayor.Garrett (1969) p.372 References * Mayors of Atlanta 1805 births 1864 deaths 19th-century American politicians {{GeorgiaUS-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Brunello
Mario Brunello (born 1960) is an Italian cellist and musician. The turning point in his artistic life was the 1986 victory of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Life and career Origins and musical beginnings Brunello, born in Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso - Italy), studied under Adriano Vendramelli (Venice Conservatorio of music) and of Antonio Janigro. In 1986 he was awarded the first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow) in the cello section.AMC Music - ex equo with Kirill Rodin (Russia then USSR). Since then Brunello has played with the many orchestras in the world: , |
