About Leo Stern (musician)
Leo Stern was an English cellist, best remembered for being the soloist in the premiere performance of Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor in London in 1896. Stern played the concerto in Prague (three weeks later, again conducted by Dvořák,) at the Leipzig Gewandhaus (he was the first Englishman ever invited to play there) and with the Berlin Philharmonic. The Leo Stern Prize was established in 1907 in Stern's memory, and was awarded annually to assist a student of the cello at the Royal College of Music.
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