Andrew Shulman (born 1960 in London, England) is an English virtuoso cellist, conductor and composer. He is currently the principal cellist of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and maintains his cello studio at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, California.

Career

He was formerly principal cellist of the

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, the

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, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He was appointed principal cello of London's Philharmonia at the age of 22 by Riccardo Muti. In 1989 he became the first British cellist to win the United States New England Conservatory/Piatigorsky Artist Award

Performances

He has performed cello concertos with the

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, Utah Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the

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, the Gothenburg Symphony and the Singapore Symphony. Conductors include Sinopoli, Salonen, Rattle, Stern, Kahane, Atherton, Zander, Welser-Most, Marriner, Brown, Davis and Bychkov. He also performed the Haydn D major, Tchaikovsky '' Rococo Variations'' and Strauss' '' Don Quixote'' at the

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(with Sir

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, broadcast live on the BBC) and the

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(with Esa-Pekka Salonen).

Awards

He was the first Briton to win the New England Conservatory/Piatigorsky Artist Award, in 1990. He won the major cello prizes at the Royal College of Music and won the

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gift and two Countess of Munster Awards.

Recordings

Recent recordings include Broughton's cello concerto, Stone's cello concerto 'Siddhartha', Broughton's sonata for cello and piano and Zigman's Rhapsody for cello and piano. He has recorded 26 CDs with the Britten Quartet ( EMI and

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) and has made solo recordings for

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) and EMI ( Janáček). He made a world premiere recording of

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's complete cello works, and was solo cello on

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''. Shulman has also arranged and recorded for American

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band

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and has been featured on their last three albums.

Conducting

As conductor, he has performed in Europe and the USA and has conducted the world premieres of several major works, as well as collaborating with some notable soloists, including Rafael Wallfisch,

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and Bernard d'Ascoli. He was invited by the Britten-

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Foundation to conduct the first performance of an important early work by

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, with the

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at Britten's

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in Suffolk, England. He has conducted the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Saloman Orchestra, the Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra, The Jonkoping Orchestra, the Ambache Chamber Orchestra, the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra, the Leicester Symphony Orchestra, the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Royal College of Music Chamber Orchestra, the Ulster Youth Orchestra, the Guildhall School of Music Chamber Orchestra and the Hertfordshire Symphony Orchestra. He is currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Culver City Symphony Orchestra.

Composition

Shulman also composes, and recently premiered his ''Smaller Music For Strings'' in the UK, as well as collaborating with the German rock guitarist

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in performances in Hollywood. His electric cello rock instrumental ''H.A.N.D'' was a winner in the International Songwriting Competition of 2007.

Music education

Shulman studied cello with

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, Joan Dickson, Jacqueline du Pré and

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. He received an 'Honorary RCM' from The Queen Mother in 1986, and subsequently became a professor at the Royal College of Music. He has given masterclasses in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, the Ukraine, the USA, South America, the Far East and New Zealand. After winning the New England Conservatory/Piatigorsky Artist Award in Boston, he returned to the USA to teach and give concerts. Now residing in Los Angeles, he has given masterclasses at The Corwin Awards, USC,

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and The

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. He is a regular guest artist at the La Jolla Summerfest, Aspen,

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and

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summer music festivals, and last season recorded three new cello concertos written for him. These were written by Christopher Stone, Nathaniel Levisay and Maria Newman. He has premiered new sonatas and concertos by Broughton, Zigman, Kaska, Newman and next season he premieres James Newton Howard's cello concerto with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. The European premiere is scheduled for June 2021 with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Salonen. This season CDs of concertos by Stone and Broughton are being released on all formats. He formed the Los Angeles Piano Trio in 2020 http://www.losangelespianotrio.com and is a member of the New Hollywood String Quartet http://www.newhollywoodstringquartet.com

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