Adriana Contino
Adriana Contino (* 1954 ) is an American cellist.
Live and act
Contino is the daughter of the conductor Fiora Contino and the clarinetist Joseph Contino . She studied with Janos Starker at Indiana University until 1976 and was supported by musicians such as György Sebők , Joel Krosnick , Arleen Auger and Julius Herford . She became the youngest member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra . Since 1980 she has played with the Bach Chamber Soloists . From 1987 to 1991 she was first cellist of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Bach Collegium Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling , with whom she also made concert tours and recordings. She has also performed with the New York Chamber Orchestra , the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra , the Group for Contemporary Music , the New York New Music Ensemble and the String Fever jazz ensemble, and with conductors such as Robert Shaw , Dennis Russell Davies , Lukas Foss , Rafael Kubelík , Trevor Pinnock , Ferdinand Leitner and William Steinburg . The album New Beginnings was created in 1989 in an improvisational duo with pianist Richard Shulman . She works in a duo or trio formation with Jean-Louis Haguenauer .
From 1991 to 2012 Contino was professor for cello, baroque cello and chamber music at the Freiburg University of Music . She lives in Indianapolis and has been Visiting Professor at Anderson University since 2014 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Axel Schniederjürgen Kürschner's Musicians Handbook 2006 De Gruyter 2006 (5th edition), p. 73.
- ↑ New Beginnings at Allmusic (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Contino, Adriana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cellist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |