Raphael Wallfisch

Raphael Wallfisch is a British Jewish cellist recognized internationally as a soloist, admired for his rich tone and his advocacy of neglected Romantic and twentieth-century concertos. He was born in London into a musical Jewish family; his mother, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, is a cellist who survived Auschwitz by playing in the camp's women's orchestra. Wallfisch has recorded extensively and championed works by composers suppressed under the Nazi regime.