Sonia Wieder-Atherton

Sonia Wieder-Atherton (* 1961 in San Francisco ) is an American cellist .

Life

Wieder-Atherton studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Maurice Gendron and took masterclasses with Mstislaw Rostropovich . She continued her education at the Moscow Conservatory with Natalja Schachowskaja .

After her return in 1986 she was a winner of the Rostropovich Competition . In the following years she appeared as a soloist with major European orchestras such as the Orchester de Paris , the Orchester National de France , the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, the Luxemburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hanover.

Several contemporary composers have dedicated works to her, including Pascal Dusapin , Georges Aperghis , Henri Dutilleux , Wolfgang Rihm , Betsy Jolas and Ivan Fedele . As a chamber musician she worked a. a. with the pianists Imogen Cooper , Georges Pludermacher , Laurent Cabasso and Elisabeth Leonskaja and the violinists Jan Talich , Raphaël Oleg and Sylvia Marcovici .

Wieder-Atherton worked on several films as a cellist and composer and made several recordings.

Jewish Songs
Beginning with Monteverdi
Schubert trios
En sonate (duos with the pianist Imogen Cooper and the violinist Raphaël Oleg)
En concerto (works by Maurice Ravel , Béla Bartók and Dmitri Schostakowitsch with the Sinfonia Varsovia under János Fürst )
Songs from Slavic Lands: Journey Down a Long-lost Path (Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra with works by Sergei Rachmaninow , Leoš Janáček , Sergei Prokofjew , Bohuslav Martinů , Witold Lutosławski , Ernst von Dohnányi and Gustav Mahler ), 2009

personal data
SURNAME	Again-Atherton, Sonia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American cellist
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Francisco , California, USA