Cello

Vagram Saradjian, (Russia/USA)

VAGRAM SARADJIAN gave his first public recital at age 9 and won his first prize at the Russian National Competition at age 18, which put him in the country’s national spotlight. International recognition of his prodigious talent came when he won several major contests, including the Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1970 and the Geneva International Cello Competition in 1975. By the time he was twenty, Mr. Saradjian was being compared with such masters as Mstislav Rostropovich, who was his teacher at the Moscow Conservatory for eight years. As a ...

Andre Emelianoff (USA)

For over three decades, cellist ANDRE EMELIANOFF has been a highly valued contributor to New York’s rich musical life, where he is esteemed as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestra leader and educator. For twenty-three years Mr. 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 the Far East, Russia, England, North America, and Austria, where he performed as soloist in the Beethoven...

Alexander Ivashkin, (Russia/England)

ALEXANDER IVASHKIN began his music education at the Gnessins Special School of Music for gifted students at the age of five, playing both piano and cello. It was the legendary Mstislav Rostropovich who suggested he choose a career of a solo cellist. Ivashkin established an international reputation both as an interpreter of the standard repertoire and as a proponent of contemporary music. His highly acclaimed recitals, radio and TV recordings, and appearances with orchestras have included performances in more than 40 countries. As a soloist he has played with the...

Alan Smith (USA)

ALAN SMITH, a graduate of the University of Texas, he studied with George Neikrug, Adolphe Frezin and Horace Britt and participated in master classes with Leonard Rose and Andre Navarra. As the winner of several national competitions, he has been soloist with the Houston, Shreveport, Abilene, Midland-Odessa, Lima (OH), Filharmonica de Jalisco (Guadalajara) symphonies and other orchestras in Washington (DC), Philadelphia, Denver, Kansas City and in South Korea (Gwangju and MoPok Philharmonic Orchestras) and has performed under such conductors as Igor Stravinsky, Louis...

Daniel Saenz, (USA)

A native of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, cellist DANIEL SAENZ has performed throughout the United States, Central Amer- ica, Japan and Europe as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist. He earned his Bachelor of Music de- gree from the Eastman School of Music as a pupil of Pamela Frame and Alan Harris and later completed his Master of Music degree at Rice University as a studentDesmond Hoebig. His further studies include a fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival and private study with Carter Enyeart and Richard Clark. While living in Paris, he toured...

Nina Flyer (Israel/ USA)

NINA FLYER is a lecturer in cello and chamber music and has been at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music since 1997. She is also a lecturer in cello at Cal State East Bay and taught at the Reykjavik School of Music. She holds a B.M. from the University of Southern California and has also studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Vienna Academy of Music. Her major teachers include Ronald Leonard, Gabor Rejto, Vladmir Orloff and Frank Miller. Ms. Flyer has been principal cellist of the Jerusalem Symphony, the Iceland Symphony, the Bergen (Norway)...

Natalia Pavlutskaya (Russia/ England)

NATALIA PAVLUTSKAYA was born in Moscow and was lucky enough to get a real flavor of the nineteenth century’s cello traditions. She started her studies with Anatoly Klivansky, the favourite student of Anatoly Brandukov (dedicatee of Tchaikovsky and Rakhmaninov) and continued with M-me Vera Birina, most popular Russian cello teacher, once a classmate of Rostropovich in Semyon Kozolupov’s studio. Natalia’s Professor at the Conservatoire was Alexander Fedorchenko, teacher of nearly all best Russian cellists today, including Natalia Shakhovskaya, Ivan...