By 1774 he was an active cello teacher.

Mr. Rostropovich began to teach at 15, taking over from his father, a distinguished cello teacher who died young.

"It is like a light going on over your head," says her cello teacher, Mr. Porch.

His influential cello teachers included Leonard Rose and Orlando Cole.

"I gave it to my cello teacher."

My cello teacher moved, and I didn't feel like finding a new cello teacher.

The cello teacher mentioned a long list of cello pieces and asked him which ones he played.

"You would always imagine an Indian tribe lived there," said Ms. Hough, a 57-year-old cello teacher who lives in her childhood home.

Apart from his work with Apocalyptica he is a cello teacher and a skiing instructor.

His father, a cellist, played with the American Symphony Orchestra, among others, and was a cello teacher.