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Ben Wyatt |
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Cellist Benjamin Wyatt enjoyed an active career as a freelance musician in Los Angeles and New York, and has performed extensively abroad as well as at home, including performances in Italy, Germany, Austria, The Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Japan, Canada, and Mexico. In addition to solo, chamber and orchestral work, he has worked in popular and commercial idioms, including film and television sound tracks and for Broadway musicals. He has been a guest artist the past three summers at the Aspen Music Festival. Other festival performances have included those at Spoleto (Italy), Corona Del Mar (CA), and Sarasota (FL). His chamber music performances have been broadcast live in New York and Los Angeles, and he has been hailed as "virtuosic" by the Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Wyatt completed his education at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he studied with Ronald Leonard and received the award for the Outstanding Doctoral Graduate and the String Department Award in 2003. His undergraduate studies were at the Cleveland Institute of Music under Stephen Geber. Prior to that he studied with Dr. Robert Jesselson. Mr. Wyatt has completed Suzuki pedagogy training at the School for Strings with Pamela Devenport.
Mr. Wyatt is an experienced teacher of students of all ages. In New York, he taught at Third Street Music School Settlement and the Thurnauer School. As a teaching assistant during graduate school he taught both undergraduate and graduate students, and while in Los Angeles he was on the faculty at the Seoul Academy of Music. During the summer of 2003 he was on faculty at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities teaching cello and music theory.
Mr. Wyatt is also active as a Baroque cellist, performing with numerous period instrument ensembles as both soloist and continuo cellist. As a Baroque cellist, Mr. Wyatt has played with such ensembles as Musica Angelica, The American Classical Orchestra, Angeles Consort, Con Gioia, and Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra. He has been fortunate to perform with numerous leading artists, including Renée Fleming, Harry Bicket, Martin Haselbück, Giovanni Antonini, Paul Goodwin, Nicholas Kraemer, Elizabeth Futral, Rachel Podger, and Elizabeth Blumenstock. Ben joined the Renaissance Music Academy in 2007, where he teaches cello, Suzuki cello group classes, and chamber music. He is a member of the Avanti Ensemble and is also a faculty member with Virginia Tech's Fine Arts Initiative. |
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