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Leslie Parnas

Leslie Parnas was an American cellist known for his long collaborations with Pablo Casals and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. His style is often described as dramatically expressive with effortless technique and controlled phrasing. He was born in 1931, in St. Louis, Missouri, into a musical family. His father was a clarinetist, his mother played the piano, and his siblings were also musicians. Parnas began learning the piano when he was five years old, and he transitioned to the cello after three years. He attended the Community Music School in St. Louis and progressed rapidly. Around 1945, he made his debut with the St. Louis Symphony, and in 1947 he traveled to Philadelphia and enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Gregor Piatigorsky. After Parnas graduated in 1953, he served briefly in a military band, and from 1954 to 1962, he was appointed principal cellist of the St. Louis Symphony. It was also during this time that he won top prizes in several major competitions, including the International Cello Competition in Paris, the Geneva International Music Competition, the Trofeo Primavera, and the Tchaikovsky International Competition. These successes propelled his career as a soloist, and he began a long friendship with Pablo Casals. He began teaching at the Boston University School of Music in 1963, and in 1964, he gave premiere performances of Kabalevsky’s Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 77 with the St. Louis Symphony, and several other orchestras in Germany and Russia. Also a respected chamber musician, Parnas performed in a piano trio with violinist James Buswell and pianist Lee Luvisi, and he gave solo recitals. He became a founding member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 1969, which promotes chamber music in New York City through recordings, concerts, and educational programming. He was appointed artistic director of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School and Festival from 1973 to 1985, and he also performed several tours though Russia. In the '90s he served twice as a juror for the Tchaikovsky International Competition, and he appeared on several recordings, including Ravel, Kodaly, Martinu: Works for Violin and Cello with Josef Suk, Duos for Violin and Cello with Nam Yun Kim, and Brahms, Schumann: Works for Cello and Piano with Tong-il Han. Following his retirement in 2013, Parnas lived in a rehabilitation facility in Florida, where he continued to play his cello until his final years. His health began to decline after he suffered a fall in 2021, and he died of heart failure in 2022.
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