Timothy Eddy
BM, MM, Manhattan School of Music. Principal teacher: Bernard Greenhouse.
Profile:
Top honors, Cassado International Violoncello Competition (1975). Solo recitals throughout the United States. Solo appearances with the Dallas, Denver, and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras. Participant in the Marlboro Music Festival. Member of the Orion String Quartet, Bach Aria Group, and Eddy/Kalish duo. Professor of cello, State University of New York at Stony Brook and The Juilliard School. Cello faculty, Mannes College, since 1980.
RONALD THOMAS
Email:
thomasr1@newschool.edu
Profile:
Ronald Thomas recently stepped aside as the principal cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. He is the co-founder and artistic director of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and has appeared as soloist and in recital with orchestras throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East. Mr. Thomas has appeared with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Bravo! Colorado Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, Blossom Festival, Chamber Music Northwest Festival, Music at Menlo, Sarasota Festival, and others. He studied at The Curtis Institute and New England Conservatory, and has taught at M.I.T., Brown University, Boston Conservatory and Peabody Conservatory.
Fred Sherry
Profile:
A pioneer and a visionary in the music world, cellist FRED SHERRY has introduced audiences on five continents and all fifty United States to the music of our time through his close association with today’s composers. Elliott Carter, Mario Davidovsky, Steven Mackey, David Rakowski, Somei Satoh, Charles Wuorinen and John Zorn have written concertos for Sherry which he has performed with orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony, Municipal Orchestra of Buenos Aires, BBC Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, New World Symphony and RAI Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale. Mr. Sherry has premiered solo and chamber works dedicated to him by Milton Babbitt, Derek Bermel, Jason Eckardt, Lukas Foss, Oliver Knussen, Peter Lieberson, Donald Martino and Toru Takemitsu among others.
He has been a member of the Group for Contemporary Music, Luciano Berio’s Juilliard Ensemble, the Galimir String Quartet and a close collaborator with jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea. Mr. Sherry was a founding member of Speculum Musicae and Tashi. He has been a guest at festivals including the Aldeburgh Festival, Casals Festival, Tanglewood, Spoleto, Scotia Festival of Music, Toru Takemitsu’s Music Today, Chamber Music Northwest, OK Mozart, Ravinia and the Mostly Mozart Festival. He has been an active performer with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since the 1970s and was the Artistic Director from 1988 to 1992. Mr. Sherry is a member of the cello faculty of Mannes College The New School for Music, the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music.
Fred Sherry created the series “Bach Cantata Sundays” at St. Ann’s Church and conceived and directed the acclaimed “Arnold Schoenberg: Conservative Radical” series at Merkin Concert Hall. He was the creator and director of “A Great Day in New York,” the groundbreaking festival featuring 52 living composers presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Merkin Concert Hall. Sherry played an important role in the White Pine Pictures documentary “Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould.”
In the vast scope of his recording career, Fred Sherry has been a soloist and “sideman” on hundreds of commercial and esoteric recordings on RCA, Columbia, Vanguard, CRI, Albany, Bridge, ECM, New World, Arabesque, Delos, Vox, Koch and Naxos. Mr. Sherry’s longstanding collaboration with Robert Craft has produced recordings of major works by Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Webern, including Sherry’s performance of the Schoenberg Cello Concerto. The Fred Sherry String Quartet recordings of the Schoenberg String Quartet Concerto and the String Quartets Nos. 3 and 4 were both nominated for a Grammy.
Sherry’s book “25 Bach Duets from the Cantatas” was released by Boosey & Hawkes in July 2011. It will be followed by the long-awaited treatise on contemporary string techniques.
Portfolio:
www.fredsherry.com
Irene Sharp
B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University. Cello studies with Margaret Rowell, Gabor Rejto, Eugene Eicher, Theo Salzman. Participant, Casals Master Classes.
Profile:
Winner, American String Teachers Association Award. Solo performances throughout U.S., Europe, Asia. Teacher seminars in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and Europe. President, ASTA, Bay Area region. Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University. Former faculty, University of California at Santa Cruz, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Meadowmount School of Music, Bowdoin Summer Festival, Indiana University String Academy, Northwestern University Summer Program, Margaret Rowell Seminar. Artistic Director, California Summer Music since 1995; Irene Sharp Cello Seminar since 1998. Faculty, University of California-Berkeley since 2000; Faculty, Mannes College since 1993, Preparatory Division since 1991.
Marcy Rosen
Curtis Institute of Music. Principal teachers: Gordon Epperson, Orlando Cole, Marcus Adeney, Felix Galimir, Karen Tuttle, and Sandor Vegh.
Profile:
Winner, 1986 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Walker Fund Prize, Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award, and Washington International Competition for Strings. First recipient, Mischa Schneider Memorial Award from the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation. Orchestral and solo appearances throughout Europe, Japan, Canada, and the United States. Performances with Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Caramoor Festival Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony, Concordia Chamber Orchestra, and Tokyo Symphony. Founding member, Mendelssohn String Quartet and Rosen/Walsh Duo. Artist-in-residence at North Carolina School of the Arts and Harvard University. Associate professor of cello, Eastman School of Music. Faculty, University of Delaware and New England Conservatory. Cello faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music, since 1999.
Ms. Rosen is currently Associate Professor of Cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College.
Barbara Stein Mallow
B.M., M.M., Yale School of Music. Cello studies with Luigi Silva, Bernard Greenhouse, and Zara Nelsova. Composition studies with Nadia Boulanger, Quincy Poter, and Bohuslav Martinu.
Profile:
Two-time winner of the New York Philharmonic Young Composer's Contest. Appearances as soloist and chamber musician. Recordings for Melodya Records in Russia. Founding member of the Carnegie String Quartet at Brooklyn College. Former faculty, Bennington College, Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, Hoff Barthelsan School, and Perlman Music Program on Shelter Island. Vice President, Violoncello Society of New York. Cello Faculty, Mannes College, since 1996.
