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Cellist Ella Toovy has performed worldwide in recitals,
chamber music concerts in the United States, Europe,
Asia, Latin America, as well as in her native country of Israel.
Her playing was noted for "possessing capacity of cantabile
to great finesse?so well balanced with sonority and expression"
(Cuban Daily Newspaper) and described as "breathtaking"
(New Music Connoisseur). Her work was recorded for television
and radio broadcasts internationally in Spain, France and Israel.
Currently residing in New York City, Ms. Toovy performed in
New York?s most prestigious venues such as Weill Recital Hall
and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and
Steinway Hall. Festival appearances include the Kfar Bloom Chamber
Music Festival, Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, The Musica Viva
Festival, The Grandes De La Musica Festival, and the New York
Summer Music Festival. She collaborates frequently
with musicians and ensembles in New York City and beyond,
and has performed with flutist Linda Chesis, clarinetist Anthony
McGill, pianists Joanne Polk and Daniel Epstein, members of
the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and
the Ying Quartet, among others.
Currently a doctoral candidate at Mason Gross School of the Arts
at Rutgers University in the studio of Mr. Jonathan Spitz, Ms.
Toovy earned her MM from the Manhattan School of Music where she
studied with Alan Stepansky, a BA from the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, where she earned a degree in Middle Eastern Studies
and Musicology, and a performance BM from the Academy for Music
and Dance in Jerusalem where she studied with Professor Shmuel Magen.
She has played in master classes for Steven Isserlis, Janos Starker,
Arnold Steinhardt, and Aldo Parisot and has studied chamber music
with Isidore Cohen, Jacob Lateiner, Hagai Shaham,
and Sylvia Rosenberg. |
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