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—allmusic.com Born into a family of distinguished London musicians, Raphael Wallfisch soon made the cello his life’s work. While studying with Gregor Piatigorsky in California, he was chosen to perform chamber music with Jascha Heifetz in Piatigorsky’s informal house recitals. At the age of 24, he won the Gaspar Cassadó International Cello Competition in Italy, and has since won engagements with the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Symphony, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, the Berlin Symphony, the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmoniic, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Czech Philharmonic, among others. He regularly appears at such major festivals as the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Spoleto in Italy, Prades, Oslo and Schleswig-Holstein. He is professor of cello at the Zürich Winterthur Conservatory and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, U.K. Raphael Wallfisch has recorded most of the major cello works for EMI, Chandos, Black Box, ASV, Naxos and Nimbus, including a wide range of British cello concertos. Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, John Tavener and a number of other British composers have written works especially for him. in March, 2011, Wallfisch played concerts in Israel with violinist Hagai Shaham and pianist Arnon Erez at the Jerusalem YMCA and the Israel Music Conservatory, the University of Haifa and Keshet Eilon Music Centre. He played the Schumann concerto with the Southbank Sinfonia under Vladimir Ashkenazy at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and at Canterbury Cathedral, and will repeat the work with the Northern Chamber Orchestra at the Buxton Festival in July. He will join the Coull Quartet for two performances of the Schubert Quintet in Yeovil and Barnstaple in April. Recent recordings (2010) include Weber’s Concerto ‘Grand pot-pourri’, Friedrich Grützmacher’s arrangement of Spohr’s a minor violin concerto and Reicha’s A Major Concerto with Nicholas Ward and the Northern Chamaber Orchestra; British music for cello and piano by Wordsworth, Holbrooke & Busch with Raphael Terroni; Sonatas by Chopin, Laks & Szymanowski with John York; and Joseph Holbrooke’s Cello Concerto with the George Vass and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. For more than a dozen years, he has played regularly as the Wallfisch-York duo with pianist John York, who replaced Peter Wallfisch, Raphael’s father, at the keyboard. Together they have performed at all the major festivals in the UK and abroad and have recorded all the Beethoven cello and piano works as well as a CD of works by Poulenc. He lives in London with his violinist wife, Elizabeth, and their three children. He plays an instrument made in 1760 by Gennaro Gagliano. March 2011 |
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