Among other major influences on her work, she lists cellists Anner Bylsma, Jacqueline du Pré and Bruno Guiranna.
Guest soloists with the orchestra have included pianists Dimitri Bashkirov, Julius Katchen, and Rudolf Kerer; violinists Ivry Gitlis, Gidon Kremer, Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Spivakov, and Josef Suk; and cellists Miloš Sádlo and Daniil Shafran.
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Other performers in Timișoara have included pianists Annie Fischer, Artur Rubinstein, and Carlo Zecchi; violinists Bronisław Huberman, Fritz Kreisler, Jacques Thibaud, and Eugène Ysaÿe; and cellists Pablo Casals and Gregor Piatigorsky.
Besides, as an outstanding cellist, Chu had opportunities to play with other great cellists such as Rostropovich, Greenhouse, etc.
They have collaborated with many artists including cellists János Starker and Yehuda Hanani, pianists Santiago Rodriguez, Cyprien Katsaris and Rudolph Buchbinder, tenor Ramón Vargas, and guitarists Narciso Yepes, Sharon Isbin, David Tanenbaum and Manuel Barrueco.
His chamber music activities include collaborations with violinists Alexander Sitkovetsky, the reader Gabriel Woolf, as well as cellists, singers, clarinettists and others.
Among his musical partners, soprano Arpiné Rahdjian, violist Demetrio Comuzzi, cellists Luca Pincini and Giorgio Gasbarro (first cellist at Palermo Teatro Massimo), dancer Oriella Dorella (étoile at Teatro alla Scala, Milan).
He went on in the next five years to study with many great cellists, including the genius cellist-editor Leonard Rose.
Recent owners of The 1673 have included the cellists Jacqueline du Pré (1945–1987), Lynn Harrell and Nina Kotova.
Certain specific performers became associated with the Festival, including violinist Aaron Rosand, pianists Jorge Bolet, Malcolm Frager, Gunnar Johansen and Raymond Lewenthal, cellists James Kreger and Jascha Silberstein, and conductors Victor Borge, Igor Buketoff, Jorge Mester and Izler Solomon – many of whom went on to record several of these works for commercial record labels.
He is noted for his partnerships with other artists, particularly his thirty-year collaboration with mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani, but also including cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, and soprano Dawn Upshaw.
A group of her closest colleagues (including fellow cellists Mstislav Rostropovich and Julian Lloyd Webber) sent a bristling letter to The Times.
Renowned not only for his technical skill but also for a gorgeous profundity of tone and deep insight musicality, Johann Sebastian Paetsch has the pleasure of a distinguished international career as one of the foremost cellists of his generation, performing regularly in Japan, Europe and the Americas.
A highly sought after chamber musician, recent collaborations include Australian and international tours with the Australian String Quartet, performances with violinists Natsuko Yoshimoto, Elizabeth Layton, Ilya Konovalov, (concertmaster Israel Philharmonic), Flinders Quartet, and cellists Li-Wei Qin and Guy Johnston.
Her chamber music partners throughout many concerts and festivals include pianists Masha Belooussova, Jean Claude Vanden Eynden, Julien Gernay, Sanja and Lidija Bizjak violinists Nemanja Radulovic, Gil Sharon, Grigory Zhislin, violist Vladimir Mendelssohn, cellists Michel Strauss and Alain Meunier, clarinettists Philippe Berrod, Sandrine Vasseur as well as string quartets Talich and Ebene.
In 2007 he wrote and directed "Eleonore Schoenfeld: Born to Teach", a look into the life of Eleonore Schoenfeld who is considered one of the most influential cellists of the 20th century.
The Rose Album, performing David Popper's Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano opus 66, with cellists Matt Haimovitz, Sara Sant'Ambrogio, and Zuill Bailey (2002).
Cellists who have recorded Tchaikovsky's original version have included Steven Isserlis, Raphael Wallfisch and Julian Lloyd Webber.
The Rose Album, performing David Popper's Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano opus 66, with cellists Matt Haimovitz and Sara Sant'Ambrogio, and pianist Navah Perlman (2002).