Aldo Parisot
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Aldo Parisot is one of America's leading cello teachers. Brazilian by birth, Parisot studied cello first in Brazil, and then at Yale School of Music, where he became a distinguished professor. Margaret Campbell, in her book The Great Cellists calls him "a brilliant soloist, chamber musician and teacher who based his ideas on the playing of Emanuel Feuermann."
His solo and symphonic concert appearances began in the 1950s, and he has premiered works by Hector Villa-Lobos, Camargo Guarnieri, Jose Siqueira, Quincy Porter, Mel Powell, Claudio Santoro, Donald Martino and other works dedicated to him. He is well-known for his musicality, temperament and virtuoso playing.
At Yale he formed his students into an ensemble with a unique sound called the "Yale Cellos," and they have made a number of very good recordings. Many of his students have begun well-received careers of their own as concert artists and teachers, including Irene Sharp, Shauna Rolston, Bion Tsang, Carol Ou, Ralph Kirshbaum, Johann Sebastian Paetsch, Jian Wang and others. Kirshbaum reports in Campbell's book, "Parisot had a virtuoso left hand technique and was a great teacher. He also furthered the use of my musical imagination in a technical sense."
Aldo Parisot, long acknowledged as one of the world's master cellists, has led the career of a complete artist, as concert soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, and teacher. He has been heard with the major orchestras of the world, including Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, Munich, Warsaw, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh, under the batons of such eminent conductors as Stokowski, Barbirolli, Bernstein, Mehta, Monteux, Paray, de Carvalho, Sawallisch, Hindemith, and Villa-Lobos. As an artist seeking to expand his instrument's repertoire, he has given first performances of numerous works for cello, written especially for him by such composers as Carmago Guarnieri, Quincy Porter, Alvin Etler, Claudio Santoro, Joan Panetti, Ezra Laderman, Yehudi Wyner, and Heitor Villa-Lobos, whose Cello Concerto No. 2, written for and dedicated to him, was first given by Aldo Parisot in his New York Philharmonic debut. Since then he has appeared with the Philharmonic on nearly a dozen occasions. He created a sensation when he introduced Donald Martino's Parisonatina al'Dodecafonia at Tanglewood.
He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from Shenandoah University in 1999, and honoured as an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Penn State University in 2002, with the Award of Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, in 2001. A Yale faculty member since 1958, Aldo Parisot was named the Samuel Sanford Professor of Music at Yale in 1994 and received the Gustave Stoeckel Award in 2002.
