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Matteo Goffriller
Matteo Goffriller (1659–1742) was a Venetian luthier, particularly noted for the quality of his cellos. He was active between 1685–1735 and was the founder of the " Venetian School" of luthiers, during a time when Venice was one of the most important centers of musical activity in the world. Biography Although it is known that Goffriller was born in Brixen, little else is known of him prior to 1685 in Venice. Goffriller arrived in Venice in 1685 to work for luthier Martin Kaiser (Caiser). In 1685 he married Martin Kaiser's daughter Maddalena Maria Kaiser (Caiser), at the Madonna delle Grazie in Venice; she bore him twelve children (five boys and seven girls) in 26 years. Francesco Goffriller, long thought to be his brother, is now known to have been his son. He was the founder of the " Venetian School" of luthiers, when Venice was one of the most important centers of musical activity in the world, and is believed to have taught luthiers Domenico Montagnana and Francesco Gobet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Venice
The Republic of Venice ( vec, Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic ( vec, Repùblega Vèneta, links=no), traditionally known as La Serenissima ( en, Most Serene Republic of Venice, italics=yes; vec, Serenìsima Repùblega de Venèsia, links=no), was a sovereign state and maritime republic in parts of present-day Italy (mainly northeastern Italy) that existed for 1100 years from AD 697 until AD 1797. Centered on the lagoon communities of the prosperous city of Venice, it incorporated numerous overseas possessions in modern Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Greece, Albania and Cyprus. The republic grew into a trading power during the Middle Ages and strengthened this position during the Renaissance. Citizens spoke the still-surviving Venetian language, although publishing in (Florentine) Italian became the norm during the Renaissance. In its early years, it prospered on the salt trade. In subsequent centuries, the city state established a thalassocracy. It dominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Weil
Terence Weil (9 December 1921 in London – 25 February 1995 in Figueras) was a British cellist, principal cellist of the English Chamber Orchestra, a founding member of the Melos Ensemble, a leading chamber musician and an influential teacher at the Royal Northern College of Music. Career Herbert Walenn was his cello teacher at the Royal Academy of Music. After the war he joined a string quartet formed by the violinist Emanuel Hurwitz, a friend and colleague. He was also principal cello of chamber orchestras such as the Goldsbrough Orchestra (later known as the English Chamber Orchestra, or ECO), and was an outstanding continuo cellist. Together with clarinettist Gervase de Peyer and violist Cecil Aronowitz, he helped found the Melos Ensemble in 1950. He was its principal cellist for decades, and Aronowitz its principal violist. Bassoonist William Waterhouse wrote in 1995: "It was the remarkable rapport between this pair of lower strings, which remained constant through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Eskin (Principal Cellist Of BSO 1964-2016)
Jules Louis Eskin (October 20, 1931 – November 15, 2016) was an American cellist who was the principal cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was born in Philadelphia. With conductor Seiji Ozawa, he is known for solo performances of well-known works by Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré, and Beethoven. Prior to joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he spent three years with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell George Szell (; June 7, 1897 – July 30, 1970), originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. He is widely considered one of the twentieth century's greatest condu .... He also played for the Boston Chamber Players and Burton Quintet Five. Eskin died at the age of 85 on November 15, 2016 in Brookline, Massachusetts from cancer. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Eskin, Jules 1931 births 2016 deaths Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts Musicians from Philadelphia American cellists< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés Díaz (cellist)
Andrés Díaz (born 1964) is a Chilean cellist, who performs with the Díaz Trio, which includes his brother Roberto Díaz, a violist, and violinist Andrés Cárdenes, former concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He won the First Prize in the 1986 Naumburg International Cello Competition. Career Díaz's orchestral appearances include engagements with the Atlanta Symphony, performances with the American Symphony at Carnegie Hall, the symphony orchestras of Milwaukee, Seattle, Rochester, the Boston Pops and Esplanade Orchestras, the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival and the National Symphony Orchestra. He has toured Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Hawaii and Canada, and appeared in Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic. He has also appeared with Russia's Saratov Symphony and toured in New Zealand with the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra. He is currently a professor at Southern Methodist University , mottoeng = "The truth will make you fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert DeMaine
Robert DeMaine (born December 6, 1969 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American virtuoso cellist, best known as Principal Cello of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Early life From a musical family, Robert DeMaine began learning music at age 4 from his sister, an accomplished cellist. DeMaine debuted at age 12 with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, performing Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme. The following year, he met the American cellist and teacher Leonard Rose at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina, where Rose invited DeMaine to become his student. DeMaine was accepted for study at the Juilliard School in New York City, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and was also invited to learn privately with Pierre Fournier in Geneva, Switzerland, but his parents made the decision that he should complete his secondary education at home. After graduating high school — during which he took a nearly two-year hiatus from music studies — on a bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Croisé
Christoph Raphael Friedwart Croisé (born 3 December 1993 in Filderstadt/Germany but raised in Niederlenz/Switzerland) is a French-German-Swiss cellist and composer. Life and career Christoph Croisé had his first Cello lessons at the age of seven with Katharina Kühne. Since 2007, so at the age of 14, he was taught and guided by Alexander Neustroev, a Solo-Cellist at Zurich's Tonhalle. When he turned 20 he moved to Berlin to study with Wolfgang-Emanuel Schmidt at Berlin University of Arts. Also from the age of 14 he started attending various master classes and has since benefitted from the advice of Steven Isserlis, Michael Sanderling, David Geringas, Walter Grimmer, and Frans Helmerson. At the age of 17, Christoph made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City after having won the IBLA Foundation Grand Prize, which included a concert tour through the United States. His debut album with Oxana Shevchenko was released in May 2015 on Quartz Classics. His second album "Summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Coppey
Marc Coppey (born 1969 in Strasbourg) is a French contemporary classical cellist. Biography In 1988 at the age of 18, Marc Coppey won the two highest prizes of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition: the first prize and the special prize for best Bach performance. He was then noticed by Yehudi Menuhin. He made his public performance debuts in Moscow and in Paris playing the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio with Menuhin and Viktoria Postnikova, on the occasion of a concert filmed by Bruno Monsaingeon. Rostropovich invited him to the Evian Festival and, from then on, his soloist career unfolded under the direction of Emmanuel Krivine, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Michel Plasson, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Theodor Guschlbauer, John Nelson, Raymond Leppard, Erich Bergel, Philippe Bender, Alan Gilbert, Lionel Bringuier, Paul McCreesh, Yutaka Sado, Kirill Karabits and Asher Fisch. External links Official website* (discography) Artistes · Solistes · Marc Coppey · violoncelleon S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Castleman
Charles Martin Castleman (born 22 May 1941) is an American violinist and teacher. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, he began violin lessons at the age of four with Ondricek. When he was six he appeared as a soloist with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orch. At nine, he made his solo recital debuts at Jordan Hall in Boston and Town Hall in New York In Aaron Richmond's Celebrity Series of 1950-51 he was co-featured with Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz and Isaac Stern. He was a student of Galamian at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (1959–63), and also received coaching from Gingold, Szering and Oistrakh. He received AB and MA degrees from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1963 he was a silver medalist at the Queen Elisabeth Concours in Brussels, and in 1966 was a bronze medalist at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He debuted in 1963 with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy playing Wieniawski's F sharp minor Concerto. I ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuill Bailey
James Zuill Bailey, better known as Zuill Bailey (born 1972) is a Grammy Award-winning American cellist, chamber musician, and artistic director. A graduate of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and the Juilliard School, he has appeared with major orchestras internationally. He is a professor of cello at the University of Texas at El Paso. Bailey has an exclusive international recording contract with the Telarc label. Biography As a concerto soloist, Bailey has performed with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Buffalo, Ft. Worth, Louisville, Milwaukee, Minnesota, North Carolina, Toronto, and Utah. He has collaborated with conductors Alan Gilbert, Andrew Litton, Grant Llewellyn, Itzhak Perlman, James De Preist, and Stanisław Skrowaczewski, and has performed with the pianist Leon Fleisher, the Juilliard String Quartet, the violinist Jaime Laredo, and cellists Lynn Harrell, Janos Starker and David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Peled
Amit Peled (born 1973) is an Israeli-American cellist, conductor, and pedagogue. He plays a ca. 1695 Grancino cello on loan from the Roux Family Foundation. From 2012-2018 he played Pablo Casals's 1733 Matteo Goffriller cello. Prior to Casals's cello, Peled played a 1689 Andrea Guarneri cello. Amit Peled's two critically acclaimed CDs ''The Jewish Soul'' and ''Cellobration'' were released under the Centaur Records label. His third CD with Centaur Records, ''Reflections,'' was released in September 2012. He released recordings of five of Bach's Cello Suites on the albums ''Bach Suites 1–3'' (2018) and ''Solus et Una'' (2022) and Brahms' Cello Sonatas on ''To Brahms, with Love: From the Cello of Pablo Casals'' (2018). At 6'5" tall, Peled started life as a basketball player and was called "larger than life" when he enveloped his Guarneri cello and "Jacqueline du Pré in a farmer's body." Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gautier Capucon
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Gautier may refer to: People * Gautier or Walter of Pontoise (c. 1030 – c. 1099), French saint * Gautier le Leu, thirteenth-century French poet * Gautier (surname) Places * Gautier, Dominican Republic, a municipal district in the San Pedro de Macorís province *Gautier, Mississippi, a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States Other uses *Gautier furniture, French furniture manufacturer *Gautier-Languereau, French publishing house founded by Gautier and Maurice Languereau See also *Gaultier (other) *Gauthier *Gotye (born 1980), Belgian-Australian musician, singer, songwriter *Vautier Vautier is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Ben Vautier (born 1935), French artist *Cath Vautier (1902–1989), New Zealand netball player *Kerrin Vautier, New Zealand economist *René Vautier, (1928–2015), French filmmaker *T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
