Praised as “passionate and elegant” by The New York Times, cellist Amy Sue Barston has performed as a soloist and chamber musician on stages all over the world, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Ravinia, Bargemusic, Caramoor, Haan Hall (Jerusalem), The Banff Centre (Canada), The International Musicians’ Seminar (England), The Power House (Sydney, Australia), and Chicago’s Symphony Center. At age seventeen, she appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on live television, was the Grand Prize winner in the Society of American Musicians’ Competition, and won First Place and the Audience Prize in the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition. Beginning at age three, Amy studied with Nell Novak at the Music Institute of Chicago, Eleonore Schoenfeld at the Unversity of Southern California, and Joel Krosnick at The Juilliard School, where she earned her Masters degree. She also worked with Yo Yo Ma, Gary Hoffman, Tim Eddy, David Geringas, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Pinchas Zukerman.
Amy has performed as soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra, the Rockford Symphony, the USC Symphony, the Westchester Symphony, and the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, among many others. She made her first solo appearance with orchestra in Guelph, Canada when she was twelve. Amy is also the cellist of two critically acclaimed chamber ensembles, The Corigliano Quartet and Divahn. The Corigliano Quartet has been hailed by StradMagazine as having abundant commitment and mastery. Divahn is a unique all-female quartet that specializes in Middle Eastern music and improvisation using vocals, percussion, violin, cello, and an array of exotic Mediterranean instruments. Amy has performed sonatas and chamber music with many of the world’s leading musicians, including Leon Fleisher, Jon Kimura Parker, Arnold Steinhardt, Bernard Greenhouse, and Ani Kavafian.
Above all, Amy is a devoted teacher: in her home, at the New York School for Strings, as an assistant teacher at The Juilliard School, and at numerous summer music festivals and Suzuki Institutes. Several of her students commute for lessons from hundreds of miles away, some from as far away as Alaska and Japan.
Amy’s upcoming schedule includes solo and chamber music performances in England, Sydney, New Zealand, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Wisconsin, Rochester, Denver, Chicago, and Germany, as well as giving masterclasses for young cellists in twenty-two cities world-wide.
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