Dean David H. Stull has announced the appointment of Amir Eldan to the Conservatory faculty as Assistant Professor of Cello. Eldan won the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra’s position of Associate Principal Cello when he was just 22 years old, which made him the orchestra’s youngest member. He performed with the orchestra for three years and was subsequently invited by James Levine to perform with the
MET Chamber Ensemble in Carnegie Hall.
Eldan has won concerto competitions at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Juilliard School, and has performed at Alice Tully Hall with the Juilliard Orchestra. An avid chamber musician, Eldan has collaborated with members of the Guarneri and Juilliard string quartets, Richard Goode, Kim Kashkashian, Joseph Silverstein, Midori, and Lynn Harrell.
Eldan has presented concerts of Bach’s six cello suites in recitals at Bargemusic, Columbia, La Sierra, and Indiana universities, the ENCORE School for Strings Blue Ribbon Series, Windham Chamber Music Festival, and abroad in Israel. He has also performed in the music festivals of La Jolla, Marlboro, and Ravinia, the International Chamber Music Festival in Giverny, France, and the Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, England. He has also participated in the Piatigorsky Seminar for cellists and the Kronberg Cello Academy in Germany.
Eldan received his bachelor of music degree cum laude from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he won the cello award for achievement and excellence. He is a doctoral degree candidate at the Juilliard School, where he received his master of music degree, and where he served on the faculty as assistant to Joel Krosnick, with whom he studied. He has also studied with Peter Wiley and Richard Aaron. Eldan has also taught at the Heifetz International Music Institute and ENCORE School for Strings. |
