He returned to America in 1990 and taught at the University of Michigan School of Music until his retirement from academia in 2006.
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He was admitted at the age of sixteen to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Gregor Piatigorsky, who engaged him as a teaching assistant in 1949.
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He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and was conferred the title "Chevalier du Violoncelle" by Indiana University in 1993.
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