Elinor Frey

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Elinor Frey
Born (1979-08-23) August 23, 1979 (age 44)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Education McGill University, Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music
Occupation(s)Baroque cellist, musicologist
Websiteelinorfrey.com

Elinor Frey (born August 23, 1979) is a Canadian-American cellist, specializing in music of the eighteenth century. She specializes in the music of underperformed composers from the later part of the baroque era, and has recorded this repertoire on the Passacaille label. [1] In addition to her main focus on early music, she has a background in contemporary music, and has commissioned new works for the baroque cello, recording several of them. [2]

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Biography

Elinor Frey was born in Seattle, Washington, and started playing the cello at a young age. She was exposed to early music from an early age by listening to recordings of her aunt, the pioneering vocalist Barbara Thornton. [1] She pursued studies in cello performance at the Mannes School of Music and Juilliard with an emphasis on new music. Her first solo recording (a recital of contemporary cello music with pianist David Fung) dates from this portion of her career. In 2008, she moved to Montreal, where she still resides, to begin a doctorate at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. She began to work extensively in the field of historical performance, receiving a Fulbright to study baroque cello in Como, Italy for a year with Paolo Beschi. [1]

Frey was a founding member of the ensemble Pallade Musica (winners of the Early Music America Performance Competition in 2012). [3] She now leads the Accademia dei Dissonanti, an organization for performance and research. She maintains a busy performance schedule, concertizing and recording across Canada, the US and Europe. She made her Australian debut in 2023, playing concertos with the Brandenburg Orchestra. [4] Her extensive discography, of largely unknown repertoire, on the Passacaille and Analekta record labels, has won several prizes and critical acclaim. In addition to recording, she has also made critical editions of the complete cello music of Giuseppe Clemente Dall'Abaco and Antonio Vandini.

She is on the faculty of the Schulich School of Music at McGill University and the Université de Montréal, teaching baroque cello and performance practice. [5] [6]

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