Sara Sant'Ambrogio

Sara Sant'Ambrogio (born 1962) is an American

cellist best known as a member of the Eroica Trio

She was born in

Juilliard School of Music. She immediately won the Juilliard Schumann Concerto competition and was featured in a Lincoln Center

concert.

Her career began when she won the bronze medal at the 1986 International

St. Louis, San Francisco, Vienna Symphony, Royal Philharmonic and Seattle orchestras, in addition to touring and recording 9 CDs with the Eroica Trio on EMI and 4 solo CDs for Sebastian Records. She has performed at many festivals including Aspen, Marlboro, Ravinia, Great Mountain, Mostly Mozart and Hollywood Bowl and was featured in 7 sold out concerts of the Bach Cello Suites with the New York City Ballet

. She has performed with singers STING, Rufus Wainwright and Angela McCluskey and has recorded with rock group VAST. Tracks from her solo CD Dreaming were featured on the soundtracks for the documentary "Jones Beach Boys", the HBO documentary "A Matter of Taste," and "Kiss The Water." She won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for Bernstein Arias and Barcarolles on Koch Records. The Eroica Trio's first CD won NPR's Best Debut Recording and their second CD was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards. The Eroica Trio won the Naumburg Competition in 1991.

She has premiered works by several contemporary composers, including recording the Bruce Wolosoff Cello Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Michael Bacon Cello Concerto with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the double concerto Romeo and Juliet by Daron Hagen, with flutist Jeffrey Khaner and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. She performed and recorded additional works by Bruce Wolosoff for The Montage Music Society's album "Creating Music Inspired by Visual Art," and has a forthcoming album featuring two Wolosoff sonatas for Avie Records.^[1]^[2] She has premiered new triple concertos by American composers Kevin Kaska and Jay Greenberg. Triple Concertos with bandoneon by Emilio Kauderer and Daniel Binelli Trios by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts and Zhou Tian.

References

^ Montage Music Society, More Music Inspired by Visual Art: Music of Bruce Wolosoff, retrieved 2021-07-15
^ "About". Bruce Wolosoff. Retrieved 2021-07-15.

External links

Sara Sant'Ambrogio official Web site
Eroica Trio official Web site

[1] Montage Music Society, More Music Inspired by Visual Art: Music of Bruce Wolosoff, retrieved 2021-07-15

[2] "About". Bruce Wolosoff. Retrieved 2021-07-15.

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