Biography
Andrea Casarrubios maintains an uncommon dual identity as both cellist and composer while also establishing herself as a prominent educator through courses and master classes at numerous U.S. institutions. Composition has steadily become the greater priority in her artistic development, even as she continues to release recordings as a performer. One such project, the 2024 album Seven: Works by Andrea Casarrubios issued on Odradek Records, brought a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Composition to its title work.
Born February 19, 1988, in San Esteban del Valle, Spain, she began cello studies at age five and commenced formal instruction in 2000 with María de Macedo in Madrid. Further training followed in Barcelona with Lluis Claret before she entered the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, where Amit Peled served as her principal teacher. She later earned a doctorate at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York and studied composition there with John Corigliano. Casarrubios also plays piano and teaches both instruments; her recording debut occurred in 2014 as a member of Trio Appassionata on Gone Into the Night: American Piano Trios.
She has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and Lincoln Center in New York, as well as at leading festivals in the United States and Europe. Her compositions have been presented by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and additional ensembles, with broadcasts on national radio networks in the U.S., Spain, Argentina, and Brazil. Casarrubios performed her cello concerto MIRAGE at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and is scheduled to present it with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina. By the early 2020s she estimated that her professional time was divided 60 percent to cello performance and 40 percent to composition.
Her works appear on the 2019 album Caminante: Music of Andrea Casarrubios and on the 2022 recital Whole Heart by cellist Clair Bryant. She has given master classes at the Juilliard School, the University of Southern California, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and other institutions.
Born February 19, 1988, in San Esteban del Valle, Spain, she began cello studies at age five and commenced formal instruction in 2000 with María de Macedo in Madrid. Further training followed in Barcelona with Lluis Claret before she entered the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, where Amit Peled served as her principal teacher. She later earned a doctorate at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York and studied composition there with John Corigliano. Casarrubios also plays piano and teaches both instruments; her recording debut occurred in 2014 as a member of Trio Appassionata on Gone Into the Night: American Piano Trios.
She has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and Lincoln Center in New York, as well as at leading festivals in the United States and Europe. Her compositions have been presented by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and additional ensembles, with broadcasts on national radio networks in the U.S., Spain, Argentina, and Brazil. Casarrubios performed her cello concerto MIRAGE at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and is scheduled to present it with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina. By the early 2020s she estimated that her professional time was divided 60 percent to cello performance and 40 percent to composition.
Her works appear on the 2019 album Caminante: Music of Andrea Casarrubios and on the 2022 recital Whole Heart by cellist Clair Bryant. She has given master classes at the Juilliard School, the University of Southern California, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and other institutions.
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