Bernard Greenhouse

Bernard Greenhouse (born January 3, 1916 in Newark / New Jersey ; † May 13, 2011 in Wellfleet / Massachusetts ) was an American cellist and music teacher .

Greenhouse began playing the cello at the age of eight and became a student of William Berce at the age of 13 . At the Institute of Musical Arts (now the Juilliard School ) he studied with Felix Salmond . After graduating in 1938, he worked for the CBS as a member of the Dorian Quartet and first cellist of the radio orchestra and also took lessons with Emanuel Feuermann and Diran Alexanian . When the United States entered World War II in 1941, he became first cellist in the US Navy Orchestra . He also appeared in a quartet with the violinists Oscar Shumsky and William Stone and the violist Emanuel Vardi .

In 1946 Greenhouse made his debut as a soloist in New York's Town Hall . In the same year he traveled to France and completed his training in Prades with Pablo Casals . In 1948 he returned to the USA, where he co-founded the Bach Aria Group ; he also continued his career as a soloist (including a performance in London's Wigmore Hall ). With his friend, the violinist Daniel Guilet and the pianist Menahem Pressler , he founded the Beaux Arts Trio in 1955 , of which he was a member until 1987. From 1969 Isidore Cohen was the violinist of the trio.

The trio made their debut in Tanglewood in 1955 with a Beethoven program and gave 80 concerts in the 1955–56 season alone. Numerous international tours and recordings followed, including those with works by Maurice Ravel and Gabriel Fauré , of cycles with compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert , of Mozart's piano quartets (with the violist Bruno Giuranna ) and Johannes Brahms ' and Robert Schumanns Trios and piano quartets.

In addition, Greenhouse was always active as a teacher, u. a. at the Manhattan School of Music , the Juilliard School , Stony Brook University and Rutgers University . His students included Rolf Gjelsten , Paul Katz , Timothy Eddy , Maxine Neuman , Amit Peled , Damien Ventula , Stjepan Hauser , Uzi Wiesel , Astrid Schween and Kurt Baldwin . After retiring from the Beaux Arts Trio, he was active as a soloist and teacher until well after his 90th birthday.

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• The Guardian, July 20, 2011: Bernard Greenhouse obituary
• The Telegraph, May 16, 2011: Bernard Greenhouse
• The Strad, May 15, 2011: Beaux Arts Trio founding cellist Bernard Greenhouse dies aged 95
• New York Times, May 13, 2011: Bernard Greenhouse, Acclaimed Cellist, Dies at 95
• Deutschlandfunk, January 7, 2016: The cellist Bernard Greenhouse
• cellobello: Bernard Greenhouse ● Artist Teacher

literature

• Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Greenhouse Bernhard. 12th completely revised edition. 4. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1972, p. 454 (first edition: 1882).