Titles by: ROBERT JESSELSON
ROBERT JESSELSON
Robert Jesselson is an Emeritus Carolina Distinguished Professor at USC, where he taught cello and played in the American Arts Trio and the Jesselson/Fugo Duo for forty years. In 2013 he was named as the Governor's Professor of the Year. Dr. Jesselson has performed in Europe, Asia, South America, and the US. His performance degrees are from the Staatliche Hochschule for Musik in Freiburg, West Germany, the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Paul Katz, and from Rutgers University where he studied with Bernard Greenhouse. In 1983, Dr. Jesselson was in China for a six-month residency, one of the first Western cellists to visit that country. In December 2001 he led a delegation of string players and teachers to Cuba to begin professional contact with Cuban musicians. He has also taught at Sookmyung University in Korea, Sun Yat Sen University in Taiwan, University of Auckland in New Zealand, and at the Royal College of Music in London. Dr. Jesselson was the director of the USC String Project for fifteen years, building the program into one of the largest and most prominent string education programs in the country. His pioneering work on this program was recognized in an article in The New York Times in 2003. Dr. Jesselson was the national President of ASTA from 2000- 2002, during which time he started the National String Project Consortium, with sites at forty-four universities and grants of $3.1 million. He was the cello teacher at the S.C. Governor's School for the Arts for seventeen years. He is the recipient of the 2015 USC Trustees Professorship, the 2002 Cantey Award for Outstanding Faculty, the 1992 Verner Award, and the 1989 S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship.