Aldo Parisot

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Aldo Parisot

Aldo Simoes Parisot (born September 30, 1918 in Natal (Brazil) , † December 29, 2018 in Guilford (Connecticut) ) was an American cellist and music teacher of Brazilian origin.

Parisot had cello lessons from the age of seven and performed with the Orquestra do Rio de Janeiro at the age of twelve . He then studied with Emanuel Feuermann at the Curtis Institute of Music and at Yale University , where he taught from 1958, received the Samuel Sanford Professorship for Music in 1994 and received the Gustave Stoeckel Award in 2002.

In 1947 he became a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra , with whom he toured the United States and Europe. As a concert cellist, chamber musician and soloist, he has performed with internationally important symphonic orchestras and chamber ensembles in Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, Munich, Warsaw, Chicago, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh under the direction of conductors such as Leopold Stokowski , John Barbirolli , Leonard Bernstein , Zubin Mehta , Pierre Monteux , Paul Paray , Eleazar de Carvalho , Wolfgang Sawallisch and Paul Hindemith . Several composers, including Camargo Guarnieri , Quincy Porter , Alvin Etler , Cláudio Santoro , Joan Panetti , Ezra Laderman and Yehudi Wyner , wrote works for him. Heitor Villa-Lobos dedicated his Second Cello Concerto to him, the world premiere of which he played with the New York Philharmonic .

Individual evidence

  1. Anthony Tommasini: Aldo Parisot, Eminent Cello Teacher and Yale Fixture, Dies at 100: Aldo Parisot, Eminent Cello Teacher and Yale Fixture, Dies at 100 - The New York Times. In: nytimes.com. The New York Times, January 1, 2019, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  2. Klassik.com: Cellist Aldo Parisot has died. In: magazin.klassik.com. December 31, 2018, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  3. Beloved, longtime faculty cellist Aldo Parisot dies at 100. In: music.yale.edu. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .

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