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Andrea E. Mills - Cello Andrea E. Mills started her studies as part of the Hartt School Community Division. She went on to receive her Bachelor of Music Degree at the Hartt School and her Master’s Degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Alan Harris, David Wells and Peter Stumpf. As a chamber musician her teachers have included the Cleveland Quartet, the Emerson Quartet, and the American Quartet. She has participated in masterclasses with Orlando Cole, Irene Sharp and Yehudi Hanani and attended the Aspen Music School in Colorado, the Yellow Barn Music Festival in Vermont and the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. Andrea has held principal cello positions with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, the Wallingford Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra, with whom she performed as soloist. As an active freelancer throughout the US, she has played with the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, the New Haven Symphony, the Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra, the Youngstown Symphony, the Erie Philharmonic, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and the South Bend Symphony. Most recently, she became a member of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra. She also travels regularly to Europe where she has performed with orchestras in Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom. Andrea has a wide variety of musical interests from classical to jazz. In 1998 she studied jazz cello at the Henry Mancini Institute, CA., where she performed at the Hollywood Bowl. She has played with such familiar names as Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Johnny Mathias, Yes, Diana Krall, Dave Gruisin and the Turtle Island String Quartet. As a dedicated teacher of young musicians Andrea has taught both traditional and Suzuki cello for over 10 years, completing specialist training in San Francisco, Chicago, Cleveland, Ithaca, and West Hartford. She has been on the faculty of the Ethel Walker School, Choate-Rosemary Hall and the Hartt School Community Division and currently leads the cello faculty at the Western Springs Suzuki School. In 2003 she assisted Daniel Morganstern, principal cellist of the Lyric Opera, on a book on cello technique to be published by International Edition. She is a guest lecturer as orchestral and chamber music coach at Valparaiso University and performs as cellist with the Castillon Piano Trio. Andrea is the founding Director of Musici Entertainment. |
