Masterclass with Timothy Eddy, Cellist of the Orion String Quartet

February 16, 2011 - 8:30am
  • Wednesday, February 16, 2011
  • 8:30am
  • B18 Old Cabell Hall
  • Free

World-renowned cellist and pedagogue Timothy Eddy will teach University of Virginia cello students at 8:30am on Wednesday, February 16th in room B018 of Old Cabell Hall. Students will be perfroming music by Bach, Lalo, and Saint-Saens.

Cellist Timothy Eddy has earned distinction as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher of cello and chamber music. He has performed with numerous symphonies including Dallas, Colorado, Jacksonville, North Carolina and Stamford, and has appeared at the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Aspen, Santa Fe, Marlboro, Lockenhaus, Spoleto and Sarasota music festivals. He has won prizes in numerous national and international competitions, including the 1975 Gaspar Cassado International Violoncello Competition in Italy. Mr. Eddy is currently Professor of Cello at the Juilliard School and New York's Mannes College of Music, and he was frequently a faculty member at the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall. A former member of the Galimir Quartet, the New York Philomusica and the Bach Aria Group, he collaborates regularly in recital with pianist Gilbert Kalish. He has recorded a wide range of repertoire from Baroque to avant-garde for the Angel, Arabesque, Columbia, CRI, Delos, Musical Heritage, New World, Nonesuch, Vanguard, Vox, and Sony Classical labels.

This master class is supported by the Eleanor Shea Music Trust. Special thanks to the Tuesday Evening Concert Series.

 

Address

UVA Department of Music
112 Old Cabell Hall
P.O. Box 400176 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4176

Email: music@virginia.edu