FULL BIO (Link)
SHORT BIO:
Cellist Laura Metcalf is active in New York City and beyond as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and teacher. She is a member of the Sybarite Chamber Players (a string quintet dedicated to eclectic programming and active commissioning), the Tarab Cello Ensemble (a cello octet with whom she has performed in the US and in Mexico), and Ten O'Clock Classics (a collective of soloists devoted to performance and outreach). She has appeared on the Festival Chamber Music Series in Weill and Merkin Halls with members of the New York Philharmonic and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and performed chamber music in Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Tenri Institute, Detroit's Orchestra Hall, the J.P. Morgan Library, Le Poisson Rouge, and many other venues. She has performed as a soloist with the Ensemble 212 Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa, and was a semi-finalist in the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Competition. She has attended the IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses and Open Chamber Music, and music festivals in Taos, Aspen, Sarasota, and Fontainebleau (France). Laura is currently assistant principal of the Chamber Orchestra of New York, and has appeared numerous times in the New World Symphony. She serves on the cello faculty of Opus 118 Harlem School of Music, through which she also teaches group cello lessons at New York PS 129. Laura received her master's degree in 2006 from the Mannes College of Music, where she studied with Timothy Eddy
SHORT BIO:
Cellist Laura Metcalf is active in New York City and beyond as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and teacher. She is a member of the Sybarite Chamber Players (a string quintet dedicated to eclectic programming and active commissioning), the Tarab Cello Ensemble (a cello octet with whom she has performed in the US and in Mexico), and Ten O'Clock Classics (a collective of soloists devoted to performance and outreach). She has appeared on the Festival Chamber Music Series in Weill and Merkin Halls with members of the New York Philharmonic and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and performed chamber music in Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Tenri Institute, Detroit's Orchestra Hall, the J.P. Morgan Library, Le Poisson Rouge, and many other venues. She has performed as a soloist with the Ensemble 212 Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa, and was a semi-finalist in the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Competition. She has attended the IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses and Open Chamber Music, and music festivals in Taos, Aspen, Sarasota, and Fontainebleau (France). Laura is currently assistant principal of the Chamber Orchestra of New York, and has appeared numerous times in the New World Symphony. She serves on the cello faculty of Opus 118 Harlem School of Music, through which she also teaches group cello lessons at New York PS 129. Laura received her master's degree in 2006 from the Mannes College of Music, where she studied with Timothy Eddy
