Peteris Sokolovskis
Info
Role: Cello
Performances with FSO:
- Dvořák: Cello Concerto
15 March 2025
About
Latvian cellist Peteris Sokolovskis is enjoying a freelance career as a chamber musician, orchestral player and occasionally a soloist. Peteris has performed the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Barnet Symphony Orchestra and Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Corinthian Chamber Orchestra. His most recent concerto performances were the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto with the Wandsworth Symphony Orchestra and Shostakovich's 1st Concerto back with Barnet Symphony Orchestra.
As guest principal Peteris has played with the Netherlands Philharmonic and Trondheim Symphony Orchestras and is a regular in the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Aurora Orchestra. Peteris was a member of Kremerata Baltica for 4 years, touring extensively throughout Europe, North and South Americas and Asia.
As a chamber musician Peteris has performed in festivals in Europe and South America. Most recently he Joined Viktoria Mullova and Matthew Barley on a mini tour of Europe performing Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht. Peteris is a regular teacher at the Oxford Cello School and La Mariette Junior Course in France and he regularly works with the LSO outreach programmes and Multi-Story Orchestra and last summer he coached the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra as part of the LSO coaching staff in Aix-en-Provence. Peteris plays on a 1692 Carlo Giuseppe Testore cello.