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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 100 th 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
and 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, and Speculum Musicae,
and as Principal of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic,
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), Tages Anzeiger (Switzerland), Zürichsee
Zeitung (Switzerland), Zürcher Oberländer (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; he's written
for MUSO magazine; and he's recorded for the EMI, Naxos,
New World Records, Bridge Records, and Albany Records labels. In
addition to serving on the faculty of the Bloomingdale School
of Music, he's a faculty member of the annual Mark O'Connor
Strings Conference. 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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