2020 Roster

The 2020 International Piatigorsky Cello Festival features the Mass Cello Ensemble -- with the unique sound of more than 100 cellists, including many international artists, 33 Festival Fellows, and cellists young and old from Los Angeles and beyond -- bringing the festival to a close on the stage of Walt Disney Concert Hall in a grand display of shared passion and enthusiasm.

Cello 1

Jean-Guihen Queyras
Laura van der Heijden
Yoshika Masuda
Taeguk Mun
Hayoung Choi
Erica Piccotti
Anton Spronk
Christine Lee
Rainer Crosett
Elena Ariza
Minji Kim
James Baik
Euan Shields

Cello 2

Kian Soltani
Zlatomir Fung
Stella Cho
Peter Myers
Henry Myers
Timotheos Petrin
Ülker Tümer
Lia Chen Perlov
Ben Solomonow
Keith Williams
Laura Andrade
Nathan Le
Olivia Marckx

Cello 3

David Geringas
Jakob Koranyi
Benjamin Lash
Youna Choi
Domonkos Hartmann
Juliette Herlin
Tate Zawadiuk 
Sarah Kim
Christopher Hutton
Joon Sung Jun
Eugene Lin
Jocelyn Yeh
Madeline Sheard
Mingchen Ma

Cello 4

Wendy Warner
Torleif Thedéen 
Michael Kaufman
Natania Hoffman
Constantin Macherel
Yuqi Wang
David Schepps
Samuel DeCaprio
Benett Tsai
Nathan Mo
Jerry Xu
Jaewon Ahn
Marek Szpakiewicz

Cello 5

Ralph Kirshbaum
Laurence Lesser
Andrew Shulman
Allan Hon
Endre Steger
Constantin Heise
Juan-Salvador Carrasco
Hannah Innis
Jeffrey Ho
Emma Lee
Sanga Yang
Nathaniel Yue
Anmari Joubert
Shengyu Meng

Cello 6

Frans Helmerson
Narek Hakhnazaryan
Sinéad O‘Halloran 
Jakob Christoph Kuchenbuch
Jason Pegis
Yanyan Lin
Quenton Blache
Joo Lee
Katherine McCarthy
Killian Kelly
Elizabeth Wright
Ifetayo Ali
Raymond Newell
Eiline Tai

Cello 7

Jeffrey Solow
Camille Thomas
Friedrich Thiele 
Bryan Cheng
Clara Védèche 
Jared Blajian
Aihao Zheng
Benjamin Fried
Maialen Eguiazabal Arruabarrena
Haley Hedegard
Joel Shimada
Christopher Ye
Ariel Hung

Cello 8

Giovanni Sollima
Chiara Enderle Samatanga
Alexander Hersh
Annette Jakovcic
Javier Iglesias-Martin
Diane Roscetti
Wayne Wooseok Kwon
Rebecca Yang
Kaya Ralls
Daniel Ketter
Klara Krklec
Caleb Yang
Claire Druffner
Candice Oh
Ye Un Park