Amy Sue Barston, cello
Praised as “passionate and elegant” by The New York Times, cellist Amy Barston has performed as a soloist and chamber musician on stages all over the world, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Ravinia, Caramoor, Haan Hall (Jerusalem), The Banff Centre, Prussia Cove (Englad), The Power House (Australia), and Chicago’s Symphony Center. At seventeen, she was soloist with the Chicago Symphony on live television, won Grand Prize in the Society of American Musicians’ Competition, and won First Place and the Audience Prize in the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition. Amy earned her Masters at Juilliard with Joel Krosnick. She also worked with Yo Yo Ma. She has performed as soloist with dozens of orchestras all over the world, and made her first solo appearance with orchestra in Guelph, Canada when she was twelve. Amy is a devoted teacher at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division. Her students commute for lessons from hundreds of miles away, some as far as Alaska and Japan. She is visiting cello professor at Xiamen University, artistic director of the Canandaigua LakeMusic Festival, and cellist of The Corigliano Quartet, which has been hailed by Strad Magazine as having "abundant commitment and mastery," and whose Naxos CD was named recording of the year by both the New Yorker and Gramophone. Amy’s recent recital performances include Bali, Australia, Taiwan, New Zealand, Canada, New York, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Baltimore, Rochester, Seattle, Chicago, and China.