EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Yale School of Music
Doctor of Musical Arts, Cello Performance, 1990
Master of Musical Arts, Cello Performance,
1985
Master of Music, Cello Performance, 1984
Yale University
Bachelor of Arts (cum laude), Music, 1983
Cello Teachers
Aldo
Parisot, New Haven, CT (1977 – 1985)
Antonio Guerra Vicente, Brasília, DF, Brazil (1976 – 1977)
Juarez Johnson, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil (1975
– 1976)
Alberto Jaffé, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil (1973 – 1975)
Iberê Gomes Grosso, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil (1969 – 1973)
Teachers
in Master Classes
Lynn Harrel, Ralph Kirshbaum, Yo-yo Ma, Janos Starker
Other teachers during summer festivals
Janos Starker and
Tsuioshi Tsutsumi, Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, Alberta, Canada, (1983)
Paul Tortelier, Fritz Maag and Nathaniel Rosen, Piatigorsky
Seminar for Cellists, Los Angeles, California (1982)
Tokyo String Quartet, Raphael Hillyer, Ward Davenny, Donald Currier and Keith
Wilson, Norfolk, CT (1979)
Aldo Parisot, Aldo Parisot International Cello Course, Brazil (1978, 1977)
Iberê Gomes Grosso, Eugen Ranevsky,
Thomas Lanz, and Barney Lehrer, Curso Internacional de Férias da Pro-Arte, Teresópolis, Brazil (1973-1975)
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Jaffé began his cello studies at the age of seven and gave his first public concert at the age of eleven.
His early teachers included Iberê Gomes Grosso, his father Alberto Jaffé, Antonio Guerra Vicente, and Juarez Johnson. At the age of
fifteen, he received an invitation by the distinguished Yale professor of cello Aldo Parisot to study in the United States. Subsequently,
Jaffé earned his undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees from Yale University under Parisot’s tutelage. Jaffé studied in Master
classes and special workshops with great masters of the cello including Yo-Yo Ma, Lynn Harrell, Paul Tortelier, Tokyo String Quartet,
Janos Starker, Nathaniel Rosen, and Ralph Kirshbaum.