Josef Feigelson

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Josef Feigelson (also Yosif Feigelson , born June 14, 1954 in Riga ) is a Latvian cellist .

Life

Feigelson comes from the Latvian capital Riga . At the age of six the cellist , who comes from a family of musicians - his mother was a violinist in the symphony orchestra , his father a tenor at the opera house  - received his lessons from Don Jaffe. At the age of 12 he played Schumann's cello concerto. At the age of 16 he won the Prague competition, which enabled him to give concerts with the Prague orchestra and to study with Mstislav Rostropovich . After his resettlement, Natalja Gutman became his teacher. This was followed by further prizes at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1974) and at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig (1976). He made music all over Russia and Eastern Europe, for example in the Dvořáksaal in Prague, in the Moscow Conservatory and in the Berlin State Opera .

In 1981 Josef Feigelson emigrated to America and since 1987 has played with many well-known orchestras in Pittsburgh , Detroit , New York and Seattle . He has also been a soloist at Avery Fisher Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Symphony Hall in Chicago, as well as in Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans. In 1990 he received the Avery Fisher Prize for Outstanding Instrumentalists. His 1996 live recording of the Dvořák concert was broadcast on radio stations around the world. In Europe he made music at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Handel Festival , the Berlin Biennale , the Tuscany Festival and the Music Meeting in St. Moritz and gave many other concerts in Central Europe , the Baltic States and Israel .

Feigelson also promotes young artists as the director of several master classes.

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SURNAME Feigelson, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feigelson, Yosif
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian cellist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga