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Pablo Casals, considered to be one of the most influential 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.
Jacqueline Mary du Pré OBE OBE (26 January 1945 – 19 October 1987) was a British cellist, widely regarded as one of the prominent cellists of the 20th century.Born in Oxford, she began studying at the Guildhall School of Music in the mid-1950s with William Pleeth, earning the school's Gold Medal in 1960.
His first encounter with a cello-like instrument was from witnessing a local travelling Catalan musician, who played a cello-strung broom handle. Upon request, his father built him a crude cello, using a gourd as a sound-box. When Casals was eleven, he first heard the real cello performed by a group of traveling musicians, and decided to ...
Ma's albums include recordings of cello concertos, sonatas for cello and piano, works for solo cello, and a variety of chamber music. He has also recorded in non-classical styles, notably in collaboration with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Carlos Santana, Chris Botti, Chris Thile, Diana Krall, James Taylor, Miley Cyrus and Sting. [79] [80]
Lift (2013) for solo cello, premiered at MIT (written for Jennifer Kloetzel) Cricket the Fiddler (2020), commissioned by Jennifer Kloetzel, solo cello, premiered online October 2020, ca 8’ Cloud Forest (2015) solo cello, 8 minutes, commissioned by Rhonda Rider; Peter Ruzicka. Sonata, Op. 9 (1969) Stille Four Epilogues (1976)
Tsutsumi’s father was a versatile player of the violin, viola and cello and also played double bass in the Tokyo Radio Philharmonic. [1] His father taught all three instruments in local schools. [2] Tsuyoshi began the violin at the age of six, but changed to cello when he saw a half-size cello being demonstrated to his father by a dealer. [3]
János Starker (/ ˈ s t ɑːr k ər /; [1] Hungarian: [ˈʃtɒrkɛr]; July 5, 1924 – April 28, 2013) was a Hungarian-American cellist.From 1958 until his death, he taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he held the title of Distinguished Professor.
Tina Guo (Chinese: 郭婷娜; pinyin: Guō Tíngnà) (born 28 October 1985) is a Chinese-born American cellist and erhuist from San Diego.Her international career as a cellist, electric cellist, erhuist, and composer is characterized by videos featuring theatrical backdrops and elaborate costumes, a range of genres, and an improvisatory style in film, television, and video game scores.