Ole Akahoshi
Assistant Professor, Adjunct, in Cello. Ole Akahoshi, from Germany, has concertized on four continents in recitals and as soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin, Symphonisches Orchester Berlin, and the Czechoslovakian Radio Orchestra. Winner of numerous competitions including the Concertino Praga and Jugend Musiziert, Mr. Akahoshi’s performances have been featured on CNN, NPR, WQXR, and radio in Germany and Korea. A recipient of a fellowship from Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi, Mr. Akahoshi has performed in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington, Suntory Hall and Tsuda Hall in Tokyo, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, Wigmore Hall in London, and Berliner Philharmonie. He has made recordings for the Albany, New World Records, Composers Recording Inc., Calliope, Bridge, and Naxos Labels.
Mr. Akahoshi has collaborated with the Tokyo String Quartet and virtually every performing artist on the Yale School of Music faculty as well as with Sarah Chang, Cho-Liang Lin, Gil Shaham, Joel Smirnoff, Chee-Yun, Toby Appel, Edgar Meyer, Leon Fleisher, Garrick Ohlsson, Myung Wha Chung, Janos Starker, and principal players of the Vienna Philharmonic. He has served as faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Camp Encore/Coda, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Festival des Artes de Itu Brazil, and at the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea, where he gives classes every summer. He has served as a judge of numerous competitions including the Juilliard Concerto Competition, the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Competition, and the William Waite Concerto Competition.
At age eleven Mr. Akahoshi was the youngest student to be accepted by Pierre Fournier. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Juilliard and a Master of Music degree from Yale, where he studied with Aldo Parisot. He also received the Artist Diploma from Indiana University where he studied with Janos Starker. Mr. Akahoshi has served as teaching assistant for both Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker. His other mentors were Wolfgang Boettcher and Georg Donderer. Mr. Akahoshi is the principal cellist of Sejong in New York. He has been a member of Seiji Ozawa’s Saito Kinen Orchestra since 1998 and the Tokyo Nomori Opera. Mr. Akahoshi is on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and he has been on the faculty of the Yale University School of Music since 1997.
Aldo Parisot
Samuel Sanford Professor in the Practice of Cello. Long acknowledged as one of the world’s master cellists, Aldo Parisot 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 those of Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Rio, 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, Mr. Parisot has premiered 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 premiered by Professor 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. Mr. Parisot has recorded for RCA Victor, Angel, Westminster, and Phonodisc. His Yale Cello Ensemble recording for Delos, Bach Bachianas, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1988.
He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music from Shenandoah University in 1999, an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Penn State University in 2002, and the Award of Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, in 2001. A Yale faculty member since 1958, Aldo Parisot received the Gustave Stoeckel Award in 2002. This year Mr. Parisot celebrates his 50th year at Yale.
