Grande Dame du violoncelle Certificate Awards, 1979-2008
Since the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center was founded, the following cellists/teachers have been honored in Bloomington with the Chevalier du violoncelle or Grande Dame du violoncelle award for their contributions to the cause of cello playing:
1979: Pierre Fournier 1980: Bernard Greenhouse 1981: Raya Garbousova 1982: Margaret Rowell - An Introduction from Internet Cello Society Exclusive Interviews by Tim Finholt 1983: Fritz Magg 1984: Aldo Parisot 1985: Antonio Janigro 1986: Zara Nelsova 1987: Samuel Mayes & Gabor Rejto (posth.) 1988: Harvey Shapiro & Eleanor Slatkin 1989: Paul Tortelier 1990: Lev Aronson (posth.), Jacques Français, Janos Scholz, & Shirley Trepel 1991: Eva Heinitz, Richard Kapuscinski (posth.), & Laszlo Varga 1992: Daniel Saidenberg, David Soyer, & Etienne Vatelot 1993: Erling Blöndal-Bengtsson & Eleonore Schoenfeld 1994: Takayori Atsumi, Jules Eskin, & Martin Ormandy 1995: David N. Baker, Lawrence Block, Robert LaMarchina, & Louis Potter 1996: George Neikrug & Uzi Wiesel 1997: Guy Fallot, Alan Shulman, & Mihaly Virizlay 1998: Amadeo Baldovino (posth.), René Morel, Siegfried Palm, & George Sopkin 1999: Janos Starker: A 75th Birthday Celebration 2000: Ronald Leonard & here, Gabriel Magyar, & Phyllis Young 2001: Orlando Cole, Carlos Prieto, & Allen Winold 2002: Paul Katz, Dimitry Markevitch, Angelica May, & Milos Sádlo 2003: Joel Krosnick, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, & Helga Winold 2004: Bonnie Hampton & Alan Harris 2005: Marta Casals Istomin and Laurence Lesser 2006: Lynn Harrell and László Mesö 2007: Timothy Eddy, Stephen Geber, Claude Kenneson, Maud Martin-Tortelier, and Elizabeth Sawyer-Parisot. This year's Honorees: 2008: Stefan Popov, & Marc Johnson
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