Pieter Wispelwey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pieter Wispelwey

Dutch cellist

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1962

Place of Birth: Haarlem, County of Holland, Netherlands

Profession: cellist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Pieter Wispelwey (born 25 September 1962) is a Dutch cellist.
In 1992, he was the first cellist to receive the Netherlands Music Prize, a government-awarded prize given to the most promising young musician in the Netherlands.
He has come to be regarded as one of the world's leading performers and interpreters of both baroque and modern cello works.He plays a 1760 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini cello and a 1710 Rombouts baroque cello.