Raphael Wallfisch
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Raphael Wallfisch (born 15 June 1953,[1] London) is a British cellist.
Wallfisch was born into a family of distinguished musicians, his father the pianist Peter Wallfisch and his mother the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who is one of the last known surviving members of the Girl orchestra of Auschwitz. He studied under teachers including Amaryllis Fleming, Amedeo Baldovino, and Derek Simpson and Gregor Piatigorsky. A prizewinner at the International Gaspar Cassadó Cello Competition in Florence, Wallfisch has made CD recordings of almost the entire cello repertoire, including works by Britten, Finzi, Kenneth Leighton, Shostakovich, Ernest Bloch, Maurice Ravel, William Busch, Robert Schumann, Alexander von Zemlinsky and Tchaikovsky. During his career he has been appointed to the faculties of the Konservatorium Zürich Winterthur and the Musikhochschule Mainz.
His wife is the Australian Baroque violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch.[2] His sister is the psychotherapist Maya Jacobs-Wallfisch
He has recorded on the EMI, Chandos, Black Box, ASV, Naxos and Nimbus labels. He has recorded a wide range of British cello concertos, including works by James MacMillan, Gerard Finzi, Frederick Delius, William Walton, Arnold Bax, Arthur Bliss, Benjamin Britten, Moeran and Kenneth Leighton.
Many British composers have works especially for him. These include Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, John Metcalf, Paul Patterson, Robert Simpson, John Joubert, Robert Saxton, Roger Smalley, Giles Swayne, John Tavener and Adrian Williams.
Raphael plays a 1760 Gennaro Gagliano cello.
He has three children, the conductor and Hollywood composer Benjamin, the baritone (and cellist) Simon, and vocalist Joanna.
References
External links
- Official personal homepage (in English)
- Biography from the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich (in German) DEAD LINK
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