Lynn Harrell

Lynn Harrell (born in 1944 with New York) is a American Violoncelliste .

Born parents musicians (his father, Mack Harrell, are Baryton and its mother, Marjorie Fulton, Violoniste), Harrell decides at the eight years age to suspend the Violoncelle. After having finished its secondary studies, he studies with the Juilliard School of New York then to the Curtis Institute off Music of Philadelphia where he has as professors Leonard Pink and Orlando Cole. He makes his beginnings in 1961 with the Philharmonic orchestra of New York with the Carnegie Hall.

Orphan at 17 years (his father dies of a cancer in 1960 and its mother two years later in an car accident), Lynn Harrell joined the Orchestre of Cleveland where it occupies the station of first violoncello of 1964 to 1971.

Harrell begins in recital in New York in 1971 and continues since an international career of recitalist, chambrist and concert performer. He is also a required professor who taught in the most prestigious music schools of which the Royal Academy of London, Cleveland Institute off Music and Juilliard School. He also animates during several seasons of the master classes in margin of the Festival of Aspen. He occupied the musical position of director of Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute of 1988 to 1992. He currently teaches the violoncello in Shepherd School off Music of the Université Rice and lives with Houston (Texas) with his wife, the violonist Helen Nightingale.

Lynn Harrell plays on a violoncello Montagnana of 1720. It also has a Stradivarius of 1673 having previously belonged to the British violoncellist Jacqueline of the Pre and which it called the Pre in remembering the precociously missing musician.

Rewards

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:
  • Trio for piano in the minor, COp 50 of Tchaïkovsky: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman (1982)
  • Integrals of the trios for piano of Beethoven: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman (1988)

External bonds

  • Biography (Shepherd School off Music)

Random links:Rochénard | Orchis incarnates | Angle of attack | Embassy of Tunisia in France | Loricella | DIX_de_Karl