REGISTER NOW AND GET • 5 FREE tracks! • 101 tracks for $9.99
Ballet
Chamber Music
Chinese Music
Concertos
Film & TV Music
Instrumental
Musicals
Opera / Operetta
Orchestral
Orchestral Backing Tracks
Sacred Choral
Secular Choral
Vocal
---------------------------- Classical Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic/19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Classic Jazz
Contemporary Jazz
Fiction
Classic Fiction
Drama
Shakespeare
Others
Non Fiction
Arts-Histories
Biographies
History
Music
Philosophy
Religion
Poetry
Junior Classics
Classicsonline Home » Artists » » Noras, Arto
Founder and Artistic Director of the Naantali Music Festival, Arto Noras is one of Finland’s most celebrated instrumentalists and amongst the most outstanding internationally acknowledged cellists of his generation, known both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. After completing his studies with Yrjo Selin at the Sibelius Academy, he studied with Paul Tortelier at the Paris Conservatoire, where he took the Premier Prix diploma in 1964. Two years later he was awarded second prize in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the beginning of an international concert career, followed by the Danish Sonning Prize in 1967 and Finnish State music prize in 1972.
His repertoire covers all the principal works for cello, including those by contemporary composers, and he has recorded extensively for Finlandia. In 1970 Arto Noras was appointed Professor of Cello at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He is in considerable demand as a jurist for major competitions, including the Tchaikovsky, Casals and Cassado, and gives master-classes throughout the world. He is a member of the Helsinki Trio and a founder member of the Sibelius Academy Quartet.