Allison Eldredge, Artist-In-Residence
Allison Eldredge is the Allen Center Artist-in-Residence and Founder of Cherry Street Music. Not only does she curate a season of live performances produced by Cherry Street Music, Allison resides in The Allen Center as her home.
In the 2022-23 season, Allison was appointed the first Artist-in-Residence of the Newton Cultural Alliance (NCA) and The Allen Center in West Newton, Ma.
Following her appointment, Allison founded Cherry Street Music, a less-formal concert series with conversation between artists and audience members – celebrating current and past cultures and community for greater unity and diversity through social awareness and music of all genres. “Classical with a Twist” and “Americana” concerts have quickly become a popular community builder in the historic home making it an intimate venue for performance. Allison and the Cherry Street Music Concert Series have made The Allen Center a hub for Arts & Culture in West Newton.
BIOGRAPHY
Cellist Allison Eldredge, a recipient of the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant and Musical America’s “Young Artist of the Year”, has enjoyed performing nationally and internationally, from London to Moscow to China to Berlin. She has been called “a cellist afraid of nothing” (Chicago Times) with “virtuosity wholly at the service of the music” (American Fanfare – American Record Guide). She gained international attention when Daniel Barenboim invited her to give the first performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto, which he conducted years after the death of his wife, the celebrated cellist Jacqueline Du Pre.
Allison has appeared as cello soloist with 30 major American orchestras and innumerable major international orchestras. She has been invited by the premiere Music Directors of the world from Scotland to Italy to Canada to the Netherlands and the United States receiving critical acclaim such that “She belongs to “the crème de la crème” of cello talents” (Het Noord Hollands Dagblad Amsterdam).
Allison has loved teaching the next generation for the past 30 years. She has taught cellists at New England Conservatory since 2000 and at Harvard University from 2008-2011. Allison also maintains a private teaching studio in Massachusetts and Connecticut. She has given masterclasses at numerous universities and schools and has visited more than 100 schools in support of music education in communities with greater needs. She teaches chamber music at Young Talent Chamber Music, a two-week Pro-Am intensive summer camp in Connecticut, where she has been Artistic Director since 2014.
Her cello teachers have included Harvey Shapiro, Yo-Yo Ma, Eleonore Schoenfeld, Joan Lunde, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ardyth Alton and Channing Robbins. Allison studied at the Pre-College and College of The Juilliard School.
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