Andre Emelianoff, Cello

2010: Second 3 Week Session

Faculty, The Juilliard School; Member, Aeolian Chamber Players.

Andre Emelianoff was the principal cellist of the New York Chamber Symphony under Gerard Schwarz and was the winner of a 1985 Solo Recitalist Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has toured as soloist and chamber artist throughout Japan, Russia, Austria, England and North America, and gave recitals throughout central Asia and the Mediterranean as an American Ambassador for the Arts, sponsored by the USIA. He is a member of the Da Capo Chamber Players and the Aeolian Chamber Players.

Mr. Emelianoff has commissioned and premiered works by Aaron Kernis, Joan Tower, George Perle, Richard Wernick, Shulamit Ran, Stephen Jaffe, and Gerald Levinson, and has recorded for CRI, Opus One, New World Records, Nonesuch, GM Recordings, RCA, Bridge Records, and Pro Arte.

He also teaches cello at the Mozarteum Salzburg summer course.