Master Class: Cello with Mihail Jojatu

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Romanian-born cellist Mihail Jojatu joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2001 and became fourth chair of the orchestra’s cello section at the start of the 2003-04 season, occupying the Sandra and David Bakalar Chair. Mr. Jojatu studied at the Bucharest Academy of Music before coming to the United States in 1996. He then attended the Boston Conservatory of Music, where he studied with former BSO cellist Ronald Feldman, and worked privately with Bernard Greenhouse of the Beaux Arts Trio. Through Boston University, he also studied with BSO principal cellist Jules Eskin. Mr. Jojatu has collaborated with such prestigious artists as Yefim Bronfman, Sarah Chang, Glenn Dicterow, Peter Serkin, Gil Shaham, members of the Juilliard and Muir string quartets, and Seiji Ozawa, who asked him to substitute for Mstislav Rostropovich in rehearsing the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. A winner of the concerto competition at Boston University School for the Arts (subsequently appearing as soloist with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra), he also won first prize in the Aria Concerto Competition at the Boston Conservatory and was awarded the Carl Zeise Memorial Prize in his second year as a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow. He has performed as guest soloist with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Bucharest and has won numerous awards in Romania for solo and chamber music performance. Recent performances have included chamber music with pianist Yefim Bronfman, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Berkshire Symphony and Longwood Symphony, and the Dvořák concerto with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Bucharest under Sergiu Comissiona and the Indian Hill Symphony Orchestra under Bruce Hangen. A faculty member at the Longy School of Music, Mihail Jojatu is also a member of the Triptych String Trio, which recently released its first compact disc.

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