Dimitry Markevitch (1923–2002) was a Swiss-born[1] American[2] cellist, researcher, teacher, and musicologist.

He studied under Gregor Piatigorsky and founded the Institut de Hautes Etudes Musicales (IHEM) in Switzerland.

Markevitch rediscovered several important manuscripts, including Westphal and Kellner transcriptions of several Bach Suites, and published his own edition of the Suites, playing all six in recital at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1964.

He was one of the first people to champion period performance techniques[citation needed] and played a baroque cello for pieces composed before the 19th century.

He was the first cellist to record the complete Kodály Opus 8 Solo Cello Sonata[citation needed] in addition to two sonatas for cello and piano by Louis Abbiate with Bernard Ringeissen.