MAGILL, SAM Cellist Sam Magill has for the past fifteen years been a member of the famed Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York, under the direction of James Levine. Prior to that, he played with the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Houston Symphony. He began his tenure with the Houston Symphony while a graduate student at Rice University, where he was a pupil of Shirley Trepel.
He studied with the late Zara Nelsova at the Peabody Conservatory where he earned his Bachelor of Music degree. His other principal teachers were Lawrence Lesser, who was a pupil of Piatigorsky, and Irving Klein.
Since 1997, Sam Magill has been principal cellist of the New York Symphonic Ensemble which tours Japan every summer. With this orchestra he has performed most of the standard cello concertos in some of Japan’s most prestigious venues, such as Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. He has played the Brahms Double Concerto with violinist Mischa Keylin at Alice Tully Hall.
The Artist International Award was given to his trio, Elysian, in 1997. The award provided the unusual flute, cello and harp trio with a Carnegie Hall début at Weill Recital Hall. For over ten years he has given annual recitals at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts. His cello was made for him in 1992 by Wendy and Peter Moes.
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