Lynn Harrell

Lynn Harrell ( born January 30, 1944 in New York City ) is an American cellist of international standing.

Life and work

Born into a musical family home ( the father of singer and her mother a violinist ) Harrel decided at the age of eight years for the cello. Among his teachers at the Juilliard School of Music in New York included Lev Aronson, Leonard Rose and Orlando Cole. He attended master classes with Pablo Casals and Gregor Piatigorsky. He made his debut in 1961 with the New York Philharmonic in New York's Carnegie Hall.

At the age of 18 he got in 1962 a position as a cellist in the Cleveland Orchestra (conductor: George Szell ), whose solo cellist he was then from 1964 to 1971.

In 1971, he began his international career as a soloist and chamber music partner.

He also taught at many prestigious institutions as the Royal Academy in London, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival. From 1988 to 1992 was musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, from 1986 to 1993 he was the owner of " Gregor Piatigorsky Endowed Chair in Violoncello " at the " USC Thornton School of Music ", also in Los Angeles, and thus direct descendant of Gregor Piatigorsky in this position.

Currently Harrell teaches at the " Shepherd School of Music " at Rice University in Houston / Texas.

He plays a Montagnana cello from 1721 and an Antonio Stradivarius Cello of 1673, which belonged to the British cellist Jacqueline du Pré previously.

Awards

  • Avery Fisher Prize in 1975
  • Ford Foundation Concert Artists ' Award
  • Piatigorsky Award
  • Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman for Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios ( 1988)
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman for Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor (1982 )

Auswahldiskographie

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Suites for Solo Cello
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Violoncello ( with Vladimir Ashkenazy )
  • Johannes Brahms: Sonatas for Piano and Violoncello ( with Stephen Kovacevich )
  • Franz Schubert: Piano Trios ( with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Pinchas Zukerman )
  • Serge Taneyev: Chamber Music ( with Vadim Repin, Ilya Gringolts, Nobuko Imai, Mikhail Pletnev )
Domenico Montagnana Integrated Authority File
536446
de