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Cellist and Sphinx Medal of Excellence winner Christine Lamprea is an artist known for her emotionally committed and intense performances. Hailed a “firebrand” (IncidentLight.com) and noted for her “supreme panache” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer), she made her Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in 2013, and has since returned to Carnegie, the Kennedy Center, as well as performed with orchestras such as the Costa Rica National Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Detroit Symphony, National Symphony of the Dominican Republic, Houston Symphony, National Symphony of Michoacan, New Jersey Symphony, Reno Chamber Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and toured with the Sphinx Virtuosi across the United States. Ms. Lamprea has enjoyed collaborations with esteemed conductors such as John Axelrod, Paolo Bortolameolli, Lina Gonzalez-Granados, Andrew Litton, Keith Lockhart, Tito Muñoz, John Nelson, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Gemma New, Hugh Wolff, among others. As a recitalist, Ms. Lamprea has appeared on prestigious series at Illinois’ Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Florida’s Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Pepperdine University, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Washington Performing Arts Society. In demand as a chamber musician, she performs regularly with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and has performed with such musicians as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Sarah Chang, Itzhak Perlman, Roger Tapping, and Carol Wincenc. In recent years, she commissioned cadenzas for the Haydn D Major Concerto by Jessie Montgomery, and premiered Jeffrey Mumford’s cello concerto “of fields unfolding...echoing depths of resonant light” with the San Antonio Symphony. She is a winner of the Astral Artists National Auditions, Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition, and the Sphinx Competition.

Ms. Lamprea is on the faculty of the Longy School of Music of Bard College and the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University. Ms. Lamprea has given masterclasses at University of Michigan, Florida State University, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, among others. Ms. Lamprea is a first-generation American of Colombian descent and strives to develop relationships in Latin America as an educator, curator, and performer. Ms. Lamprea has held teaching and performance residencies, first as a soloist with the National Youth Orchestra of Colombia, and then later as a designated Specialist in Cello by the United States State Department for the award-winning education program Fundación Batuta. She has worked with Ecuadorian youth in the cities of Quito and Guayaquil, as part of a residency between The Juilliard School and “Sinfonia Por La Vida,” a social inclusion program modeled after Venezuela’s El Sistema program. Christine Lamprea is the recipient of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which supported her studies at the New England Conservatory, and a Sphinx MPower Artist Grant, which supported her study with acclaimed cellist Matt Haimovitz. She studied with Bonnie Hampton at The Juilliard School and holds a Master’s degree from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Natasha Brofsky. Previous teachers include Ken Freudigman and Ken Ishii.

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Cello Performance, Chamber Music

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