Piatigorsky
Americannoun
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At USC he was the pianist and conductor in Piatigorsky and Heifetz’s master classes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
He visited a final time in 1970 for a five-week tour with the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023
As a teenager, he accompanied and conducted the orchestra for master classes by the legendary cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and violinist Jascha Heifetz, and Piatigorsky asked him to learn Rachmaninoff’s cello sonata.
From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2019
Yet the Piatigorsky Festival—a ten-day affair, divided between the University of Southern California and Disney Hall—was not the place to muse on the cello’s reputation for solemnity.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016
She was married to the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, who happened to be giving a concert in Los Angeles that Sunday afternoon.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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