Emmanuel Feldman

Emmanuel Feldman (born 1965) is an American classical cellist and teacher based in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the co-founder of the cello-double bass duo Cello e Basso, and a member of the Aurea Ensemble.

Early life and education Feldman was born and raised in New York City.

Career As part of completing his studies in Paris, Feldman joined l'Orchestre des Prix, and was the first American ever in the orchestra. The album features works originally written for cello and bass, along with their own transcriptions of pieces by Mozart, Bartók and Handel.

In 2006, Feldman released Rider on the Plains, named after the subtitle of the first movement of Virgil Thomson's 1950 Cello Concerto, which is featured on the album. Feldman first heard of the piece in the late 1990s after speaking with Anthony Tommasini, Thomson's biographer. The album also includes two works by Charles Fussell, which Feldman commissioned in 2002 to record alongside Thomson's work. On the album, Feldman is joined by the New England String Ensemble and Nashville Chamber Orchestra. Feldman's second album, Our American Roots, was released in 2013. It features George Gershwin's Three Preludes, arranged for cello and piano by Feldman, as well as renditions of music by Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and George Walker. As a composer, Feldman's original compositions include the three-movement "Enigma No. 1", written for cello and bass, and "Synergy", written for string orchestra.

Feldman has performed as the principal cellist in the Boston Philharmonic and Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra; as a soloist with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, New England String Ensemble, New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project; and alongside Bobby McFerrin, Borromeo String Quartet, David Deveau, where he was the cello teacher of Zlatomir Fung, and at the Department of Music at Tufts University, and has also taught cello at Brown University and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. They met while studying at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Discography Albums By: Axiom Duo Released: 2002 Label: Synergy Classics Formats: CD2006Rider on the Plains: Cello Concertos By: Emmanuel Feldman Released: October 24, 2006 Label: Albany Records By: Emmanuel Feldman and Joy Cline Phinney Released: May 28, 2013 Label: Delos Formats: CD, digital download

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