Editing Steven Isserlis (section)

==Career==
Isserlis's major career breakthrough came in 1988, when he asked [[John Tavener]] to write a work for cello and orchestra. The result of this was ''[[The Protecting Veil]]'', and Isserlis premiered it at the [[BBC Proms]] with the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] and [[Oliver Knussen]]. The piece and also Isserlis’ subsequent recording of it
were met with both critical and public acclaim.<ref name="Lunch with the FT"/> The recording became a classical bestseller.<ref name="Lunch with the FT"/>

Since then, Isserlis has had an active solo career and regularly appears with many of the world's leading ensembles. He has performed with orchestras such as the [[Berlin Philharmonic]], [[Vienna Philharmonic]], [[Gewandhausorchester Leipzig]], [[Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich]], [[Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin]], [[London Symphony Orchestra]], [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Philharmonia Orchestra]], [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]], [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]], [[Cleveland Orchestra]], [[Los Angeles Philharmonic]], [[New York Philharmonic]], [[Philadelphia Orchestra]], and the [[NHK Symphony Orchestra]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/artists/2576/steven-isserlis|title=Steven Isserlis|website=LA Phil|access-date=22 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/isserlis.htm|title= Conversation with Steven Isserlis|website=Internet Cello Society|access-date=22 January 2022}}</ref> He has also curated concert series for [[Wigmore Hall]], [[92nd Street Y]] in New York and the [[Salzburg Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.ram.ac.uk/people/steven-isserlis|title=Steven Isserlis CBE|website=Royal Academy of Music|access-date=22 January 2022}}</ref>

Isserlis is committed to authentic performance and also frequently performs with [[period instrument]] orchestras. He has performed [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] with [[Fortepiano|fortepianist]] [[Robert D. Levin|Robert Levin]] in Boston and London, and [[Cello Concerto (Dvořák)| Dvořák’s Cello Concerto]] with the [[Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment]] with [[Simon Rattle|Sir Simon Rattle]]. He has also published several editions and arrangements, principally for [[Faber Music]], and was an advisor on new editions of Beethoven's cello works, as well as the cello concertos of Dvořák and [[Edward Elgar|Elgar]]. 

On the other end of the spectrum, Isserlis has premiered works by composers [[John Tavener]], [[Lowell Liebermann]], [[Carl Vine]], [[David Matthews (composer)|David Matthews]], [[John Woolrich]], [[Wolfgang Rihm]], [[Mikhail Pletnev]] and [[Thomas Adès]]. He also commissioned a new completion of [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev’s]] Cello Concertino from the [[Udmurtia|Udmurt]] musicologist [[Vladimir Blok]], which was premiered in 1997 with the [[BBC National Orchestra of Wales]] conducted by [[Mark Wigglesworth]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sprkfv.net/journal/three03/concertino.html|title=Prokofiev's unfinished Concertino: a twisted tale.|first=Serge Jr.|last=Prokofiev|website=Sprkfv.net|access-date=23 October 2017}}</ref>

Isserlis has presented a number of festivals with long-term collaborators such as [[Joshua Bell]], [[Stephen Hough]], [[Mikhail Pletnev]], [[András Schiff]], [[Dénes Várjon]], [[Olli Mustonen]], [[Tabea Zimmermann]], and actors [[Barry Humphries]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/classical-review-sir-les-on-song-1291978.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/classical-review-sir-les-on-song-1291978.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Classical Review: Sir Les on song|date=4 November 1997|website=The Independent|access-date=23 October 2017}}</ref> and [[Simon Callow]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/aug/05/classicalmusicandopera.music|title=Steven Isserlis on Robert Schumann|first=Steven|last=Isserlis|date=4 August 2006|access-date=23 October 2017|website=The Guardian}}</ref> He is artistic director of the International Musicians Seminar, [[Prussia Cove]] in West [[Cornwall]], where he both performs and teaches.