 The New York Times described Ralph Kirshbaum as "one of the outstanding cellists of his generation". Catapulted to international attention in 1969 when he won top prize in the First International Cassado Competition in Florence, he has since appeared as a guest soloist with the symphonies of Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco and at international festivals including Edinburgh, Bath, Verbier, Aspen, Ravinia, and Mostly Mozart. A graduate of Yale University, he now serves on the faculty of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and in the fall of 2008, he assumes the Gregor Piatigorsky Endowed Chair in Violoncello at the Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles.
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