Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Rostropovich

male, deceased (2007)
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE, (March 27 1927 - April 27 2007), known to close friends as “Slava”, was a cellist and conductor. He was marr...
Gregor Piatigorsky

Gregor Piatigorsky

male, deceased (1976)
Gregor Piatigorsky was a Ukrainian cellist well known in his time. Gregor Piatigorsky, or occasionally known as "Grisha," was born in Ekaterinoslav...
Daniil Shafran

Daniil Shafran

male, deceased (1997)
Daniil Borisovich Shafran (January 13, 1923, Saint Petersburg - February 7, 1997, Moscow) was a Russian cellist. His father, Boris Shafran, was the...
Raya Garbousova

Raya Garbousova

female, deceased (1997)
Raya Garbousova (b. 1909 in Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire, d. January 26, 1997, United States) was a well-known cellist and teacher. According...

Joseph Schuster

male, deceased (1969)
Joseph Schuster was born in Constantinople of Russian descent. He entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music at the age of 10 to study the...
Nina Kotova

Nina Kotova

female
Nina Kotova is a Russian cellist. Nina Kotova represents the third generation of musicians in her family. Her father, Ivan Ivanovich Kotov,...
Natalia Gutman

Natalia Gutman

female
Natalia Gutman is a cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Saposhnikov. She was later admitted to the Central...
Natalia Shakhovskaya

Natalia Shakhovskaya

female, 74 years old
Natalia Shakhovskaya (born 1935 in Moscow) is a Russian cellist. She studied cello at the Gnessin School of Music and later at the Moscow...

Dimitry Markevitch

male, deceased (2002)
Dimitry Markevitch (1923) - 2002) was a Russian concert cellist, researcher, teacher and musicologist. He studied under Gregor Piatigorsky and...

Karl Davydov

male, deceased (1889)
Karl Juljewitsch Davydov, was a Russian cellist of great renown during his time, and described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "tsar of...