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Antônio Meneses is a Brazilian cellist. Coming from a musical family, he took up the cello at age 10. A meeting with cellist
Antonio Janigro led
Meneses to participate in classes in Dusseldorf and Stuttgart. He won first prize in the ARD International Competition in Munich, 1977, and followed that by winning the first prize and the gold medal in the
Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, 1982. He has performed as soloist with the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the
London Symphony Orchestra, the
BBC Symphony, the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the
New York Philharmonic, among other world-lass orchestras. As a chamber musician,
Meneses has collaborated with the
Emerson Quartet, the
Vermeer Quartet, and the
Belcea Quartet, and performed in recitals with pianists
Nelson Freire,
Menahem Pressler,
Cristina Ortiz, and
Gérard Wyss. Since 1998 he has been a member of the
Beaux Arts Trio, and plays an Alessandro Gagliano cello, ca. 1730.