American cellist Brinton Averil Smith is as an active international solo and chamber performer as well as the principal cellist of the Houston Symphony and a professor at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice. Further information at brintonaverilsmith.com. Smith's CD of the first public performance of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's cello concerto since Piatigorsky, paired with virtuosic Castelnuovo-Tedesco transcriptions and arrangements is available from Naxos, Spotify, etc amazon.com/Castelnuovo-Tedesco-Transcriptions-Brinton-Averil-Smith/dp/B07CZ4QVZH/