Yosif Feigelson
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Yosif Feigelson is a renowned Latvia
n-born concert cellist
living in the United States
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Feigelson is a former student of Mstislav Rostropovich
and Natalia Gutman
, and the prize winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition and International Bach Competition. He performs as a soloist across the U.S. and Europe. Feigelson has recorded the 24 Preludes and four solo sonatas of Mieczysław Weinberg for the Olympia label. He currently lives in Milford, Pennsylvania.
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
n-born concert cellist
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
living in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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Feigelson is a former student of Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...
and Natalia Gutman
Natalia Gutman
Natalia Gutman is a Russian cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Sapozhnikov. She was later admitted to the Moscow Conservatory, where she was taught by Rostropovich, amongst others....
, and the prize winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition and International Bach Competition. He performs as a soloist across the U.S. and Europe. Feigelson has recorded the 24 Preludes and four solo sonatas of Mieczysław Weinberg for the Olympia label. He currently lives in Milford, Pennsylvania.