Allison Eldredge

Cellist Allison Eldredge, a recipient of the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant and Musical America's “Young Artist of the Year,” has played widely nationally and internationally, from London to Moscow to China and Berlin.  She has been called “a cellist afraid of nothing” (Chicago Times) with “virtuosity wholly at the service of the music” (American Fanfare).  She gained national attention when Daniel Barenboim invited her to give the first performance of the Elgar concerto which he conducted years after the death of his wife, the celebrated cellist Jacqueline Du Pre.

Internationally, Ms. Eldredge has played with 30 major and innumerable other orchestras including the Montreal Symphony, Moscow Virtuosi, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Warsaw Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, and the Cleveland Orchestra.  In Asia, Ms. Eldredge has appeared with the China National Symphony, Yomiuri Symphony, Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, Osaka Philharmonic and Tokyo Philharmonic.

Ms. Eldredge has been invited by the premiere Music Directors of the world including Zubin Mehta, Andre Previn, Krzyzstof Penderecki, Japan Van Sweden, Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Spivakov,  Evgeni Svetlanov, Hans Vonk, Sergiu Commissiona, Joseph Silverstein, Keith Lockhart, JoAnn Falletta, Stanislaw Skrowacewski, Eiji Oue, Mark Elder, Jorge Mester and  Otto-Werner Mueller among many others. In recital, she has toured the world, receiving critical acclaim in London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, and other cities.