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Monday, November 12 at 3:00 pm
 SARA
SANT’AMBROG IO
Grammy Award-winning cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio first leapt to
international attention when she was a winner at the Eighth
International Tchaikovsky Violoncello Competition in Moscow, Russia. As
a result of her medal, Carnegie Hall invited Ms. Sant'Ambrogio to
perform a recital that was filmed by CBS News as part of a profile about
her, which was televised nationally. The New York Times described Ms.
Sant'Ambrogio's New York debut as "sheer pleasure."
Sant'Ambrogio has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as Atlanta,
Boston Pops, Chicago, Dallas, Moscow State Philharmonic, the Prague
Chamber Orchestra, the Beijng Philharmonic, the Osaka Century Orchestra
(Japan), St. Louis, San Francisco and Seattle; she has performed
throughout the world at major music centers and festivals including
Aspen, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center,
Kennedy Center, the Konzert Huset in Stockholm, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart,
Musikverein in Vienna, Ravinia, and Orchard and Suntory Halls in Tokyo.
Sant'Ambrogio has collaborated with the New York City Ballet in seven
highly successful sold-out concerts at Lincoln Center performing The
Bach Cello Suites and this season will be performing with Rufus
Wainwright in the inauguration of a new concert series at The National
Arts Club in New York City.
Sant'Ambrogio started cello studies with her father John Sant'Ambrogio,
principal cellist of the St. Louis Symphony, and at the age of 16 was
invited on full scholarship to study with David Soyer at the Curtis
Institute of Music. Three years later world renowned cellist Leonard
Rose invited Sant'Ambrogio to study at The Julliard School; within weeks
of arriving, she won the all-Julliard Schumann Cello Concerto
Competition, resulting in the first of many performances at Lincoln
Center.
The cellist has won numerous international competitions, including The
Whitaker, Dealey, Artists International, and Palm Beach competitions.
Ms. Sant'Ambrogio won a Grammy Award for her performance of Bernstein's
"Arias and Barcarolles" on Koch Records. Sant'Ambrogio has been profiled
in Glamour, Vogue, Elle, In Fashion, Bon Apetit, Detour, Strings, Strad,
Gramophone, Travel and Leisure, Fanfare and Swing magazines, as well as
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CBS, ABC, PBS,
Fox, USA and CNN networks. Ms. Sant'Ambrogio is the subject of a feature
length documentary, which has had multiple airings nationwide on PBS.
She currently has 4 music videos playing on Classic FM TV in the UK and
Europe.
Sara Sant'Ambrogio is a founding member of the Eroica Trio. The Trio won
the prestigious 1991 Naumburg Award, resulting in an acclaimed Lincoln
Center Debut and has since extensively toured the United States, Europe,
Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1997 the Trio opened the
"Distinctive Debuts" series at Carnegie Hall, and that year represented
Carnegie Hall as the official chamber music ensemble in concerts
throughout the world. While touring around the world the Eroica has
released seven celebrated recordings for Angel/EMI Classics Records,
garnering multiple Grammy nominations.
This Season Sant'Ambrogio was given a Matteo Goffriller cello, 1715,
Venice, on extended loan through the generous efforts of The Stradivari
SocietyŽ of Chicago. Inspired by this magnificent cello, Sant’Ambrogio
has decided to follow up on the success of her last solo release,
DREAMING, by recording the Bach Solo Cello Suites on the Goffriller
this season for Sebastian Records.
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