Aldo Parisot
Aldo Simoes Parisot (September 30, 1918 – December 29, 2018) was a Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher. He was first a member of the Juilliard School faculty. He was a music professor at the Yale School of Music for sixty years (1958 to July 2018), retiring at age 99.[1] He was born in Natal, Brazil.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Aldo Simoes Parisot |
| Born | September 30, 1918 Natal, Brazil |
| Died | December 29, 2018 (aged 100) Guilford, Connecticut |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Cellist, Cello teacher |
| Instruments | Cello |
| Years active | fl. ca. 1946–2018 |
| Labels | Albany Records, Naxos Records, Delos International |
Personal life
Parisot was married twice. His first marriage, to the former Ellen Lewis, produced three sons, one of whom is film director Aldo L. "Dean" Parisot. His second marriage, to the pianist Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, lasted 52 years, until his death.[2] Parisot died at his home in Guilford, Connecticut, on December 29, 2018, aged 100.[3]
References
- Julia Carabastos (July 28, 2018). "YSM's longest-serving professor retires at age 99". Yale News. Archived from the original on September 25, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- Anthony Tommasini (January 1, 2019). "Aldo Parisot, Eminent Cello Teacher and Yale Fixture, Dies at 100". The New York Times. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
- "Beloved, longtime faculty cellist Aldo Parisot dies at 100". Yale School of Music. December 29, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
Further reading
- Aldo Parisot, The Cellist: The Importance of the Circle, Susan Hawkshaw, Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, New York (2018), ISBN 978-1-57647-309-2
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