Richard Aaron
Born:
West Hartford, CT
Biographical Information:
Has traveled extensively, giving master classes in Madrid, Spain; Mannheim, Germany; Seoul, Korea; Matsumoto, Japan; and Paris, France; as well as in the U.S. at many leading schools, including Rice, Eastman, Michigan, and Oberlin. Summer festivals: Aspen, Indiana U. String Academy, Calgary Music Bridge, Aria, Innsbruck, the Chautauqua Festival and Idyllwild. Member of the Elysian Trio, in residence at Baldwin-Wallace College. Former faculty member, Cleveland Institute of Music and Encore School for Strings; current faculty, U. of Michigan.
The Juilliard School:
Faculty since 2007; Pre-College since 2009.
Darrett Adkins
Born:
Huron, SD
Degrees and Studies:
B.M., Oberlin College; M.M., Rice U.; D.M.A., Juilliard. Studies with Joel Krosnick, Norman Fischer, and Cordelia Wikarski-Miedel.
Biographical Information:
Solo orchestral appearances with Orchestra of St. Luke's, Tokyo Philharmonic, New Hampshire Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra (American premiere of Donatoni concerto), Monadnock Festival Orchestra. Recitals in Tokyo, Yokohama, Oslo, and throughout U.S. Cellist of Flux (string quartet specializing in cutting-edge music) and Zephyr Trio (flute, piano, cello). Winner: Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award, Presser Music Award. Recordings of chamber music on Koch, CRI, Mode, Tzadic, RCA, MMC. Visiting cello faculty, Baylor U., 2001. Former faculty, Encore School for Strings.
The Juilliard School:
Faculty since 2003; assistant faculty, 1999-2003; Pre-College since 2002.
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Timothy Eddy
Born:
Exeter, NH
Degrees and Studies:
B.M., M.M., Manhattan School of Music; studies with Bernard Greenhouse and Luigi Silva.
Biographical Information:
Solos with orchestra, duos (with Gilbert Kalish). Founding member, Orion String Quartet, in residence at Mannes College the New School for Music. Member, Bach Aria Group, since 1978. Former member. Galimir String Quartet, N.Y. Philomusica. Prizewinner in Cassado International Violoncello Competition, Dealy Competition (Dallas), Denver Symphony Guild, N.C. Symphony Contest. Summers at Sarasota Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Steans Institute, Aspen; past appearances at Marlboro, Lockenhaus, Mondsee, Turku, Spoleto USA, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival. Tours with Music From Marlboro. Recordings for Columbia Records, Angel, Vanguard, Nonesuch, C.R.I., New World, Vox, Musical Heritage, Delos, Arabesque, Sony Classical. Former faculty, SUNY-Stony Brook (emeritus), New England Conservatory.
The Juilliard School:
Faculty since 2001.
André Emelianoff
Born:
N.Y.C.
Degrees and Studies:
B.S., The Juilliard School; studies with Leonard Rose, Channing Robbins, Luigi Silva, and Leonard Shure.
Biographical Information:
Concerto soloist, chamber artist, master classes throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. Cellist with Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players, in residence at Bard College, participating in more than 100 commissions and many recordings. Principal cellist, New York Chamber Symphony under Gerard Schwarz, since 1982, with recorded solos in Strauss's Bourgeois gentilhomme. Cellist with Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and Pierre Boulez. Collaborations with Garrick Ohlsson, Itzhak Perlman, Robert Mann, Dawn Upshaw, and Jaime Laredo. Commissioned and premiered solo works by Joan Tower, George Perle, Aaron Jay Kernis, Martin Bresnick, and Shulamit Ran. Guest artist, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Houston Da Camera, Chamber Music West, and Piccolo Spoleto. Artist-faculty member at Salzburg Mozarteum (1996-2002); opened 2002 season with Beethoven Triple Concerto and debuted in 1996 with the chamber music of Shostakovich. Artist-faculty at Round Top International Music Festival, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Nara Centennial Academy, Summit Festival, and Beijing International Music Festival Academy. Former faculty, Perlman Music Program.
The Juilliard School:
Chamber music faculty since 1992; cello faculty since 2000; Pre-College since 1990.
Joel Krosnick
Born:
New Haven, CT
Degrees and Studies:
B.A., Columbia College. Honorary doctorates: Michigan State U., Jacksonville U., San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Studies with William D'Amato, Luigi Silva, Claus Adam, and Jens Nygaard.
Biographical Information:
Cellist of Juilliard String Quartet since 1974, with performances throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and recordings of major classical and contemporary quartet repertoire; 2008 recipient Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award from Chamber Music America. Co-founder/director (1962), Group for Contemporary Music, Columbia U.; numerous premieres of works by Wuorinen, Martino, Babbitt, Shapey, Carter, Wernick, and others. Recordings of Bacon, Overton, Berger, Shapey, Carter, Cowell, Weber, Schnabel, Sessions. Annual duo recitals in N.Y. and throughout the U.S. and Europe with pianist Gilbert Kalish. Recordings: Arabesque (including complete Brahms Sonatas, Beethoven Sonatas and Variations, and works others); CBS, SONY, CRI, Nonesuch, Orion, Koch, CP2, New World. Two Grammy Awards (Schoenberg and Late Beethoven String Quartets); two Indie Awards and Classical Recording Foundation Award (with Kalish); Chevalier du Violoncelle Award from Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at Indiana U. Assistant professor, U. of Iowa, 1963-66; U. of Massachusetts, 1966-70; artist-in-residence, California Institute of Arts, 1970-74. Past associations: Aspen, Marlboro, Tanglewood, Yellow Barn, Piatigorsky Seminar at U.S.C.; currently, artist faculty, Kneisel Hall.
The Juilliard School:
Faculty since 1974; chair, violoncello department, since 1994.
Fred Sherry
Born:
Peekskill, NY
Degrees and Studies:
Diploma, The Juilliard School; studies with Leonard Rose.
Biographical Information:
Close working association with Luciano Berio, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Toru Takemitsu, jazz pianist Chick Corea. Premiered Mario Davidowsky's Divertimento for Cello and Orchestra with American Composers Orchestra, later performed with Municipal Orchestra of Buenos Aires and San Francisco Symphony. Concerto Five written for him by Charles Wuorinen in 1988, premiered at New York City Ballet, performed again at Carnegie Hall, 1989-90. Created series, Bach Cantata Sundays, St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn. Founding member, Tashi; performances with Los Angeles Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Festivals: Tanglewood, Chamber Music Northwest, Bridgehampton, Angel Fire, Casals, Spoleto. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since early 1970s; artistic director 1989-82. Recordings: RCA/BMG, Columbia/Sony, Nonesuch, DGG.
Natasha Brofsky
Cello, Chamber Music
nbrofsky@juilliard.edu
Cellist of the Naumburg Award-winning Peabody Trio, which has performed on important chamber music series throughout the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.; been heard on numerous radio broadcasts; and has recorded on the New World, CRI, and Artek labels. Has performed as guest with numerous ensembles, including the Takacs, Prazak, Cassatt, Norwegian, Jupiter, Ying, and Borromeo Quartets. Held principal positions in the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra under Iona Brown. Was also a member of the Serapion Ensemble, performing with them in Germany and Austria, and the string trio Opus 3, which performed throughout Norway for Rikskonsertene, the Norwegian State Concert Agency. Recorded Olav Anton Thommessen's Concerto for Cello and Winds for Aurora Records, and was a regular participant at Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, England. Master classes at many schools, including San Francisco Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, and Boston U. Has taught at Barratt-Due's Institute in Oslo, the U. of Colorado-Boulder and the Heifetz Institute. Faculty, Yellow Barn Festival (Vermont) since 2001; New England Conservatory since 2004.
Degrees and Studies
B.M. and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School; M.M., Mannes College the New School for Music. Studies with Marion Feldman, Robert Sylvester, Paul Katz, and Timothy Eddy, and on a Fulbright grant William Pleeth in London, where she was awarded the Muriel Taylor Cello Prize.
The Juilliard School
Faculty since 2012.
David Finckel
Cello, Chamber Music
dfinckel@juilliard.edu
Appears in over one hundred concerts each season in recital with pianist Wu Han across the United States and around the world. Activities as a concerto soloist include performances and recordings of the Dvorák Concerto, John Harbison Concerto, and Augusta Read Thomas’s Ritual Incantations. Recent seasons featured performances of the Dvorák Concerto at Symphony in C, the Britten Cello Symphony at the Aspen Music Festival, and the Haydn C major concerto with the Louisiana Philharmonic. With Wu Han: Artistic Directors of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; founders and artistic directors of Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley; artistic directors of Chamber Music Today, an annual festival held in Seoul, Korea. With Wu Han, named Musical America’s 2012 Musicians of the Year.
In 1997, David Finckel and Wu Han launched ArtistLed, classical music’s first musician-directed and Internet-based recording company. He has also the creator of other classical music media projects, such as the Music@Menlo LIVE label, the CMS Archive label, and is the host and instructor of Cello Talks, a series of one-hundred cello lessons available free on the web (www.cellotalks.com).
For many years, he taught alongside the late Isaac Stern at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center. In 2013, David Finckel and Wu Han launched a chamber music studio at Aspen Music Festival. Under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, David Finckel and Wu Han direct the LG Chamber Music School, which serves dozens of young musicians in Korea annually. David serves as Artist-in-Residence at Stony Brook University as well.
Degrees and Studies
Studies with Els Hilger, Bernard Greenhouse, and Mstislav Rostropovich.
The Juilliard School
Faculty since 2012.
Astrid Schween
Cello, Chamber Music
Recipient of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the Gold Medal at Russia’s Shostakovich Competition. Made her debut as soloist with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta. Participated in the Marlboro Music Festival and the William Pleeth Cello Master Classes at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh. Frequent guest artist with the Boston and Memphis Chamber Music Societies. Member of the Boston Trio, an ensemble-in-residence at the New England Conservatory, and the Lark Quartet. As of Fall 2016, member of the Juilliard String Quartet. Performs regularly in recital with pianists Randall Hodgkinson and Michael Gurt. Served as juror for the Fischoff, Sphinx, and Concert Artists Guild competitions.
Serves as cello professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is on the faculty of the Hartt School of Music, Mount Holyoke College, and at Interlochen. Conducted master classes at Juilliard, the Curtis Institute, the Hartt School, Dartmouth College, and at many other schools, and is an occasional speaker and panelist for organizations such as Chamber Music America.
Degrees and Studies
BM, MM, The Juilliard School. Studied with Harvey Shapiro, Leonard Rose, Channing Robbins and Ardyth Alton.
The Juilliard School
Faculty as of fall 2016.
