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In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, making her the first female cellist and the second tenured woman in the orchestra. Evangeline remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein.
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Evangeline has toured the world many times over, and played alongside the world's greatest instrumental and vocal soloists, including Artur Rubenstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Isaac Stern, David Oistrakh, Mistislav Rostropovich, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, Luciano Pavarotti, and Joan Sutherland to name a few. In addition to playing 200 prestigious premiers, her extensive work with celebrated conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, George Szell, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel and Alan Gilbert is unique and rare, and makes her a valuable musical resource for students, emerging professionals and professional players alike.
In demand as a chamber musician, she has collaborated with celebrated colleagues such as Yefim Bronfman (piano), Stanley Drucker (clarinet), and Philip Smith (trumpet). Evangeline gave her New York solo recital debut to rave reviews, with the New York Times calling her approach to playing as “strikingly similar to Casals” and praising her "technical capacity," her "big, vibrant tone" and her "enormous communicativeness."
Evangeline is currently a member of the cello faculty with the iClassical Academy, an innovative master class resource that "connects young musicians with some of the worlds most accomplished teachers," which whom she recorded a series of video tutorials on the Cello, Bow, and You Approach. She served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She has given master classes in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Shanghai, the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and Mannes, The New School for Music, the San Diego Symphony, among many others.
Evangeline currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and served on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The Violoncello Society of New York.
Click below to download Evangeline's full curriculum vitae.
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