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Biography

Praised by the New York Times for having "traversed the palette of emotions" with "gorgeous tone and an edge of-seat intensity" and described by Diario de Menorca as an "ideal performer" that offers "elegance, displayed virtuosity, and great expressive power that blossoms from the transparency of the voice and its sumptuous resonance ", Spanish cellist Andrea Casarrubios strives to enrich and transform all kinds of audiences, empowering them to explore their own personal connection to music.

Andrea has played extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in countries throughout Europe, Asia and America. She has collaborated in festivals such as the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles, Ravinia Steans Music Institue, Heifetz International Music Institute, the Pablo Casals Festival in France, the International Cello Forum in Spain, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany, the Menuhin Festival and the Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland. Andrea has also performed with artists including Daniel Phillips, Ralph Kirshbaum, Alexander Kerr, Atar Arad, Wing Ho, Amit Peled, Michael Kannen, Maria Lambros, Karine Lethiec, François Salque, and Ida Kavafian.

Andrea is a founding member of Trio Appassionata, along with violinist Lydia Chernicoff and pianist Ronaldo Rolim. The trio has performed in Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in 2011 among other venues in the U.S, Spain, the U.K. and Italy. The ensemble just completed a CD with four American Piano Trios “gone into night are all the eyes” released in 2014 on Odradek Records. Andrea's solo appearances include performances of the arrangement for cello and orchestra of Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, her debut solo performance at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall of the Caude Debussy Sonata along with pianist Ronaldo Rolim, concerts in the U.K., U.S., France, and Switzerland, and concerts in Spain of several works for cello and orchestra including Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto in C major with the OCIM under the direction of Andrew Watkinson. Andrea is also an active new music performer and a composer herself, and she has premiered several contemporary works including Meredith Monk's Backlight (2015), Lambda for solo cello and dancer by composer Ariyo Shary, Thomas Kotcheff's Piano Trio (2012-2013), As the Universe Unfolds for cello and acoustics (First Prize "Prix D'Eté 2010") by composer Griffin Cohen, and Maktub for three cellos, Andrea's own work which was premiered at the VI Festival Luigi Boccherini, in 2013.

Andrea is a first prize winner of several competitions including the Solo Violoncello Competition Illa de Menorca-FIDAH 2010, the American Fine Arts Festival International Concerto Competition 2012, the SOR Solo String Concerto Competition 2009, and the National Piano Competition Rio del Oro 2005 in Spain. She was also awarded second and special prize at the XIV Llanes International Cello Competition 2012, and has been sponsored by the Wingate Foundation in the U.K., the Spanish Cello Forum, as well as Juventudes Musicales of Madrid. She was awarded the Beatrice Feldman Kahn and Raymond S. Kahn Endowed Cello Scholarship in order to pursue a Bachelor's degree in cello performance at the Peabody Conservatory, from where she graduated in 2011 receiving the Grace Clagett Ranney Prize in Chamber Music.

Andrea Casarrubios began to play the piano at the age of two under the guidance of composer María Escribano and continued her development with pianists Ludmil Angelov, Seth Knopp, and Bernadene Blaha in Toledo (Spain), Baltimore and Los Angeles respectively. At the age of five she started to take cello lessons and became a student of Maria de Macedo in Madrid. Andrea expanded her studies with Lluis Claret in Barcelona before moving to the United States in 2007, in order to study at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University with Amit Peled. Andrea has also had the pleasure of working closely with Frans Helmerson, Laurence Lesser, Gary Hoffman, Timothy Eddy, Paul Katz, Lluis Claret, Hans Jorgen Jensen, Donald Weilerstein, Leon Fleisher, Miklós Perényi, and Thomas Demenga. In 2011 she was invited on a full scholarship to the University of Southern California where in 2013 she completed her Masters under the tutelage of Ralph Kirshbaum.

Andrea currently lives in New York City where she is an artist in residence at Carnegie Hall as a fellow of Ensemble ACJW, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. Andrea's latest engagements include recitals in Spain, a tour through China with Trio Appassionata, and concerts in Paris and Geneva with Ensemble ACJW. In addition to several chamber music concerts each season at Carnegie Hall among other venues, Ensemble ACJW fellows also use their unique skill set of advocacy and musicianship to present meaningful events and performances at multiple non-traditional venues bringing music to people in challenging circumstances within the healthcare settings, correctional facilities, and senior-service organizations. Andrea also teaches at City College for the Arts in Manhattan, where she shares with the students performance skills, music history, technique for string instruments, and most of all, her love for classical music.


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Biografía

Aclamada por el New York Times por haber “transitado con un precioso sonido a través de una amplia gama de emociones, desde la lánguida instrospección hasta una intensidad febril”, y elogiada por el Diario de Menorca como “una intérprete ideal” que ofrece “elegancia, virtuosismo exhibido, y gran capacidad expresiva que aflora en la transparencia de la voz y en su resonancia suntuosa”, la violonchelista española Andrea Casarrubios explora la capacidad de transformar y enriquecer a todo tipo de audiencias, permitiendoles que exploren su conexión personal con la música, realzando la creatividad y el intercambio cultural.

Andrea ha ofrecido tanto conciertos de música de cámara como de solista en diversos países de Europa, Asia y América. Ha sido invitada en festivales como Ravinia RSMI Festival, Verbier Festival, Casals Festival, Piatigorsky Cello Festival y Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, colaborando en concierto con los artistas Ralph Kirshbaum, Ida Kavafian, Daniel Phillips, Alexander Kerr, Atar Arad, Amit Peled, Karine Lethiec, François Salque.

Andrea ha sido galardonada con primeros premios en numerosos concursos incluyendo el I Concurso de Solistas de Violonchelo Illa de Menorca-FIDAH, American Fine Arts Concerto Competition 2012, SOR Solo String Competition en Montana 2009, Certamen Nacional de Piano Río del Oro en 2005, así como el segundo premio y premio especial de música española en el XIV Concurso Internacional de Violoncello Villa de Llanes 2012. Andrea es la cellista del Trio Appassionata (Carnegie Hall debut en Marzo 2011), grupo de cámara elegido en 2010 Ensemble Honorífico en Peabody Conservatory y ganador de Presser Award en 2012. Formado en 2007 junto con el pianista Ronaldo Rolim y la violinista Lydia Chernicoff, el Trio ha completado en 2014 su primer CD con cuatro obras de compositores americanos bajo la discográfica Odradek Records.

Andrea comenzó sus estudios de piano a los dos años de edad con la pianista y compositora María Escribano continuando su formación con Ludmil Angelov en Toledo, Seth knopp en Baltimore y Bernadene Blaha en Los Angeles. Al mismo tiempo, Andrea se formó como cellista con Maria de Macedo en Madrid completando sus estudios con Lluís Claret en Barcelona. Becada por Juventudes Musicales de Madrid, Forum de Violoncellos de España, Wingate Foundation en Inglaterra y las universidades de Johns Hopkins y University of Southern California en Estados Unidos, Andrea se licenció en violonchelo de la mano de Amit Peled en el Peabody Conservatory de la Johns Hopkins University en 2011 recibiendo el premio de música de cámara Grace Clagett Ranney. Asimismo el trabajar con Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman, Laurence Lesser, Timothy Eddy, Paul Katz, Miklós Perényi, y Thomas Demenga ha sido una gran influencia. En 2014 Andrea finaliza el Máster y Performance Diploma en especialidad de violoncello con Ralph Kirshbaum en la University of Southern California.

Actualmente Andrea vive en Nueva York, donde continúa una carrera musical activa como cellista residente en Carnegie Hall del Ensemble ACJW y enseñando en City College for the Arts y en la Julliard School of Music. Además de ofrecer cada temporada conciertos en el Carnegie Hall, entre otros auditorios, Andrea participa dos veces al año como artista residente en la Universidad de Skidmore, donde da conciertos, clases magistrales, jornadas educativas para los estudiantes, así como actuaciones interactivas en diversos lugares para la comunidad de Saratoga Springs. Los miembros del Ensemble ACJW también presentan actuaciones personalizadas con la idea de traer música clásica a todos los estamentos sociales. Entre los más recientes compromisos de Andrea se incluyen recitales en España, una gira por China con el Trio Appassionata y conciertos de música de cámara en París y Ginebra con Ensemble ACJW.