Artist description Menahem Pressler, Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, is one of the world's best known chamber music artists. He was born in Germany and received most of his musical education in Israel. The original pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio, he has made more than 50 recordings over the past 30 years. Among the Beaux Art's trio's many awards are the Prix Mondial du Disque de Montreaux and the Gramophone Magazine Chamber Music Award. Shauna Rolston was selected by Musical America among the "1986 Young Artist to Watch". The Musicis Foundation award gave the young cellist début recitals in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. having performed extensively in her native Canada and on the Croisière Pacquet Festival-at-Sea, she has concertized throughout the world, performing in recitals and with orchestras in cities as diverse as London, New York, Amsterdam, and Budapest, as well as in Japan, Korea, and Italy.

Music Style Classical Cello with Piano

Musical Influences Beaux Arts Trio

Similar Artists Beaux Arts Trio

Press Reviews In 1986, pianist Isobel Moore suggested to Shauna Rolston the idea of transcribing this violin sonata for the cello. The young cellist promptly accepted this artistic challenge. Overcoming the technical problems of changing tessitura and balance while leaving the original piano part intact, she successfully completed the transcription and performed it for the first time with Menahem Pressler at the Banff Centre in Canada on March 28th of the same year.

Location TEMPE, AZ - USA

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