Sonia Wieder-Atherton

Sonia Wieder-Atherton (born 1961) is a Franco-American classical cellist. Life Born in San Francisco of a Romanian mother and an American father of Jewish origin, she grew up in New York and then in Paris where she entered the Conservatoire de Paris in Maurice Gendron's class. She is the sister of Claire Atherton. After her studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in the cello classes of Maurice Gendron and chamber music of Jean Hubeau, she studied with Mstislav Rostropovich, then two years at the Moscow Conservatory with Natalia Shakhovskaya. In 1986, she was a laureate of the concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch.