Alan Stepansky

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Alan Stepansky is an American cellist and music teacher .

Stepansky studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Harvard University with the Horblit Prize . He then played the cello in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and became principal cellist in the Boston Pops Orchestra under John Williams . Zubin Mehta finally brought him to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , to which he was a member for ten years, as deputy principal cellist . He has been a guest of the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center , the Mostly Mozart Festival , the Washington National Gallery of Art , the Frick Museum , Camerata Pacifica , Brooklyn's Bargemusic and Jazz at Lincoln Center , and has performed with musicians as diverse as Isaac Stern , Emanuel Ax , Renée Fleming , Frederika Von Stade , Ruth Laredo , Glenn Dicterow , Sting , Bruce Springsteen and Natalie Merchant .

He has recorded a number of solo and chamber music CDs with EMI , and has been the solo cellist in numerous cinema and television films such as Adaptation , August Rush , Being John Malkovich , The Brave One , Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , The Good Shepherd , Titanic and True Grit . He has also made CD recordings with Bruce Springsteen, David Byrne , Natalie Merchant, Audra McDonald , Harry Connick Jr. , Judy Kuhn , Joss Stone , Shawn Colvin , Lou Reed and Sting.

Stepansky is professor of cello at the Manhattan School of Music and the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University , as well as director of chamber music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and a regular participant in the Summer Festival at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.

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SURNAME Stepansky, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cellist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century