8x10 B&W vintage photograph signed "To Jim best wishes Cordelia Wikarski" in blue felt tip ink. Excellent condition. Cordelia Wikarski is an East German concert cellist and professor. She is currently the Northwest-Artist-Teacher in residence at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, and has been since 1983. Wikarski held the position of cello-professor at the Hochschule fur Musik "Hanns Eisler" in East-Berlin, Germany from 1973-1976.She has toured the world as a concert cellist. She has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra playing such works as the Shostakovich Cello Concerto #2, William Schumann's "Song of Orpheus" and the Vivaldi Double-Concerto. In Europe, she has performed with orchestras and as a recitalist in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Poland, Romania, Austria, West Germany, East-Germany, Iraq, and India. She has also made recording and television appearances in Berlin, East Germany, and was a member of the contemporary ensemble serving the Maxim Gorki Theater in East Berlin (1961-1971).She graduated in 1961 with her master's degree from the "Hochschule fur Musik" Berlin. And she has studied with noted pedagogues, Maurice Gendron and August Eichhorn until 1967. Her awards include first prize in the International Competition, Duo Cello-Piano in Munich, in 1958, the Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest, in 1963, and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, in 1966. Wikarski was the recipient of the coveted Felix Mendelssohn Award of East Germany, in 1966.This lot came from the Jim Wiggins collection we purchased in July 2022. Jim Wiggins accumulated the most unique and valuable autograph collection over a period of 70-plus years. He obtained his collection either in person or by writing to persons of fame and notoriety. Comes with a full Letter of Authenticity from Todd Mueller Authentics.