Date/Time
Date(s) - 2 Apr 2014
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
The Italian Academy
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The Spring 2014 concert series at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies will continue on Wednesday, April 2 at 7 PM with a recital by Montreal-based cellist Elinor Frey, whose CD, La Voce del Violoncello: Solo works by the first Italian Cellist-Composers, was just released in the U.S. Her program at the Italian Academy will feature a selection of works by composers included on the CD.
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
(between 116th & 118th Streets)
New York, NY 10027
Elinor Frey‘s received a US-Italy Fulbright Fellowship to study baroque cello with Paolo Beschi; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarship; and Canada Council for the Arts grants facilitating her work on Italian baroque and modern unaccompanied cello music. In recent seasons she has performed with Ensemble Caprice, Tafelmusik, Les Idées hereuses, and Bradamante, among others, as well as with her quartet, Pallade Musica, grand prize winners of the 2012 Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition. Frey’s debut album, Dialoghi, is titled for the solo piece written for her by Steven Stucky. Her new CD, La voce del violoncello, was released in Europe in 2013 on the Belgian label Passacaille, praised for its “careful scholarship and brilliant layering of moods and tempos” (Toronto Star) and for the “honest, reflective beauty of her music making” (Strings). Her performance of the CD’s program was the winner of the public prize at the 2013 Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe. Frey holds degrees from McGill, Mannes, and Juilliard.