Artist Biography
Peter Rejto: Cellist
“Reviewing a concert by cellist Peter Rejto is no more necessary than checking Albert Einstein's addition. …a Rejto performance guarantees musicianship of the highest quality.” The Arizona Daily Star
His participation in the biochemistry doctoral program at Berkeley was interrupted by his activities as a solo cellist, and he frequently pilots his own plane to concert performances.
Rejto participated in master classes with Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky and Pierre Fournier. As a founding member of the Los Angeles Piano Quartet, he has appeared in many of the world's concert halls.
Peter Rejto, cellist, has appeared throughout the United States and abroad in hundreds of performances as soloist, and with the Los Angeles Piano Quartet of which he is a founding member. He has played concerti with numerous orchestras as well as appearing at all the major US festivals, including Aspen, La Jolla, Carmel Bach, Marlboro, and Santa Fe.
He has been the Artistic Director of the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival since its founding in 1994.
His 1996 Silva Classics recording of the concertos of Gerard Schurmann and Miklos Rozsa was greeted with great critical acclaim. He has also recorded for Sony Classical, Summit, Vox, and Pickwick. Currently Professor Emeritus of Music at the Oberlin College Music Conservatory, Peter now resides in Sydney with his wife, Nicole Divall, and their two children.
In this Four Winds Festival he will be performing Elena Katz-Chernin's The Spirit and the Maiden, with Kirsti Harms soprano and Chris Latham violin (a world premiere performance), and Shostakovich's Adagio from the Viola Sonata arranged for cello and piano with Ian Munro. Peter also appears in the Four Winds Philharmonia for the Terry Riley In C, Ross Edwards Tyalgum Mantras, Bach Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, Mozart Ave Verum Corpus and the Strauss Four Last Songs.