Aldo Parisot
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.
