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Cellist Arash (Joey) Amini has performed
as soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician on four continents,
including at two Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops in Carnegie
Hall, the Ravinia Festival, Smithsonian Institution, Kennedy
Center, Verbier Festival and Academy in Switzerland, Rencontres
Musicales d'Evian in France; in Toronto's Glenn Gould Studios,
Tokyo's Suntory Hall, and Maitisong Hall in Botswana (Africa);
on Great Performers at Lincoln Center, the Alexander Schneider
Young Artists Series in Weill Recital Hall, the Museum of Modern
Art's Summergarden series, and the Curtis Alumni Recital series;
and for the 100th Anniversary of the Jefferson Building of
the Library of Congress, The Creative Coalition, and the Americans
for the Arts Gala- honoring Isaac Stern. He was a winner of
the ALEX Award of the National Alliance for Excellence, their
highest award in the performing arts.
A graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied
with David Soyer, and The Juilliard School, where he studied
with Aldo Parisot, Joey's a co-founder (along with his wife,
flutist Eveline Kuhn), the Artistic Director, and an Artist
Member of the exciting, new chamber music society, America's
Dream Chamber Artists (ADCA): www.adcany.org. He's
also performed chamber music with Barbara Hendricks, Nigel
Kennedy, Cho-Liang Lin, André Watts, and Mischa Maisky
and performs frequently in the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra,
as Principal Cellist of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic,
as a member of the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Lenape Chamber
Ensemble, and as cellist of the new Mark O'Connor Trio (with
violinist and composer Mark O'Connor), Trio Galleria (with
Eveline), and the new music group Avian Music. He's
also performed on numerous occasions in the Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Speculum Musicae,
and as Principal of the Long Island Philharmonic, Riverside
Symphony, New Juilliard Ensemble, and Juilliard's and The
Curtis Institute's Orchestras.
Joey's performed countless world and U.S. premieres of solo
and chamber music works, including the U.S. Premiere of Jindrich
Feld's Partita Concertante for Solo Cello (at the suggestion
of the composer), the U.S. Premiere of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh's
Ask havasi for Solo Cello (of which he received a glowing review
by Paul Griffiths of The New York Times), the World
Premiere of the last work written by Iannis Xenakis, and the
World Premiere of Behzad Ranjbaran's Elegy (arranged for ADCA).
As for his non-classical performances, Joey's appeared in the Downtown
Messiah at The Bottom Line in Greenwich Village and at
the World Financial Center, at Cornelia Street Café and
Don't Tell Mama, and in concerts of the music of Led Zeppelin.
In 2004, he was selected to perform as a soloist in the Iran
Bam Project's Benefit Concert for Bam's earthquake victims;
in 2005, he performed at the United Nations in a benefit concert
for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami; and at the age
of 10, he performed as a soloist in the Buy-a-Brick benefit
concert for Botswana's bomb victims. Joey's performances
have been heard on WQXR and National Public Radio; he's been
featured in The New York Times, The New York Sun, Le
Nouveau Quotidien (France), Zürichsee Zeitung (Switzerland), Botswana
Daily News, Chamber Music and The Strad magazines,
on the Arte television network in Europe, and on Voice of America
television and Internet broadcasts worldwide; and he's recorded
for the EMI, Naxos, New World Records, and Bridge Records labels.
When he's not busy performing, teaching, and doing other music
related stuff, Joey enjoys cooking; eating great food; playing
with his little Maltese, Snowy; writing; traveling; shopping;
surfing the net; watching tennis; and going to the movies. |
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