Eliot Bailen has an active career as an artistic director, cellist,
composer and teacher.
Strings Magazine writes, “At Merkin Hall
‘cellist Eliot Bailen displayed a warm focused tone, concentrated
expressiveness and admirable technical command always at the service of
the music.” Founder and Artistic Director of the Sherman Chamber
Ensemble, now celebrating its 40th year, whose performances the New York
Times has described as “the Platonic ideal of a chamber music concert,”
Eliot is also Founder and Artistic Director of Chamber Music at Rodeph
Sholom in New York and Artistic Director of the New York Chamber Ensemble.
Principal Cello of the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, New York Chamber
Ensemble, Orchestra New England, Teatro Grattacielo and the New Choral
Society (The Michael B. Packer Chair), Eliot has performed regularly
with the Saratoga Chamber Players, Cape May Music Festival, Sebago-Long
Lake Chamber Music Festival as well as with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s,
New York City Opera and Ballet, Oratorio Society, American Symphony,
Stamford Symphony, New Jersey Symphony and is heard frequently in
numerous Broadway shows.
Among Eliot’s commissions are an Octet, a Double Concerto for Flute and
Cello, Perhaps a Butterfly, Saratoga Sextet, The Tiny Mustache (a
musical) and recently a Dectet (“Inclusion”) commissioned by the New
Choral Society. He is recipient of over forty commissions for his “Song
to Symphony” for schools (subject of a
NY Times feature article Sept.
2006 and winner of a Yale Alumni Grant). In 2002 he received the Norman
Vincent Peale Award for Positive Thinking.
Eliot received his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) from Yale University and
an M.B.A. from NYU. He is on the cello and chamber music faculty at
Columbia University and Teachers College. He has performed at the SLLMF
since 1994.
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