Jennifer Kloetzel

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Jennifer Kloetzel is an American cellist and music teacher .

Kloetzel grew up in Baltimore and began her cello training at the age of six. Her teachers included Aldo Parisot , William Pleeth , Harvey Shapiro , Stephen Kates , Paula Skolnick, and members of the Juilliard String Quartet , the Amadeus Quartet and the Cleveland Quartet . She is a graduate of the Juilliard School , which she awarded the Peter Mennin Prize , and studied on a Fulbright Scholarship in England. After performing with Andre Previn at the La Jolla Chamber Music Festival , she was among the Rising Stars at the Caramoor Festival in New York for two seasons .

As a founding member of the Cypress String Quartet , she undertook concert tours around the world with performances at the Lincoln Center , the Chatauqua Institute , the Prague and Vienna Palais Lobkowitz , at the Ravinia Festival and at many well-known music academies and conservatories. She participated in numerous radio programs and made almost forty CD recordings, including the string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven and the Sexette by Johannes Brahms . She was also principal cellist with the Concert Artists of Baltimore , the Baltimore Opera and the Juilliard Orchestra under Kurt Masur .

She was a guest at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival , the Sarasota Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival , at the Britten-Pears School and at the Mozart Academy in Prague and worked as a cellist with the Cassatt Quartet from 1995–1996 . From 2003 to 2009 she taught cello and chamber music at San José State University . She also gave master classes at other universities in the USA, at the Juilliard School and at the San Francisco Conservatory . In 2004 she received the Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach . Since 2016 she has been teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara .

Her repertoire includes works by Beethoven , Brahms , Dvořák , Elgars , Glasunows , Faurés , Iberts , Haydn , Hindemith , Lalos , Saint-Saëns , Shostakovich , Stauss , Waltons and others, as well as works by contemporary composers. In 2017 she premiered Lee Actors Cello Concerto, recorded cello works by Richard Aldag with Albany Records in 2019 and in the 2019-20 season premiered the cello sonatas Aldags and Elena Ruehrs composed for her and Joel Friedman's Inferno: Double Concerto for Viola, Cello and Chamber Orchestra .

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SURNAME Kloetzel, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cellist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century