Peter Rejto

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Peter Rejto is an American cellist and music teacher .

Life

Rejto had cello lessons from his father, the Hungarian cellist Gabor Rejto , who had emigrated to the USA in 1939, and in the master classes with Pablo Casals , Gregor Piatigorsky and Pierre Fournier . In 1972 he was the winner of the International Young Concert Artists Prize . He subsequently appeared internationally as a soloist with orchestras such as the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra , the Dallas Symphony Orchestra , the Ohio Chamber Orchestra , the Filarmonica de Caracas , the California Chamber Symphony Orchestra and the Rio de Janeiro Symphony Orchestra . He owns a Dominicus Montagnana cello, which was made in Venice in 1721.

In 1977 he was a founding member of the Los Angeles Piano Quartet , to which he belonged until 2007 and with which he a. a. performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Wigmore Hall in London . In 1991 he played the world premiere of Gerard Schurmann's cello concerto The Gardens of Exile with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra , which was broadcast live on the BBC . A recording of the cello concertos by Schurmann and Miklós Rózsa with the Pecs Hungarian Symphony was released in 1996 on the Equilibrium label . A CD with cello works by Bohuslav Martinů , Leoš Janáček , Samuel Barber and Zoltán Kodály was recorded on Summit Records in 1992. Other recordings have appeared on Vox , Pickwick , IMP , the Marlboro Recording Society and Sony Classical .

As a chamber musician he performed a. a. with the Tokyo Quartet , the Bartok Quartet , the Colorado Quartet , the American Quartet , the Orion Quartet , the St. Petersburg Quartet and the Miro Quartet . From 1994 he was director of the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival . In 2004 he went on a concert tour through Korea and China, where he also gave master classes, and in 2006 he performed at the Townsville Festival in Australia.

Rejto has taught at Michigan State University , California State University in Northridge, and the University of Arizona in Tucson, and is Professor Emeritus at Oberlin College . In 2003 he was a juror at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition . He gives master classes at the Sydney Conservatory and the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM).

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SURNAME Rejto, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cellist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century