Bernard Greenhouse was born in Newark, New Jersey, on 3 January 1916. He studied at the Juilliard School and later spent an extended period working intensively with Pablo Casals in France, an apprenticeship he described as the decisive experience of his musical life. He served in the US Navy during the Second World War and made his New York solo debut in 1946. In 1955 he became the founding cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio, alongside the pianist Menahem Pressler, and remained with the group until 1987. He died in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on 13 May 2011 at the age of 95.

Greenhouse’s thirty-two years in the Beaux Arts Trio helped establish the group as the leading piano trio of the post-war era. Its extensive Philips recordings of the standard trio repertoire became reference versions and remain widely circulated. He taught for decades at the Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard School, Indiana University and Rutgers, and a large number of prominent orchestral and chamber cellists passed through his studio. He continued to teach and to play into his nineties, and his instrument, the “Paganini” Stradivarius of 1707, was long associated with him.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Greenhouse