Praised as “an artist with an already expanding reputation and a great future” (The Well-Tempered Ear); cellist ANDREW BRIGGS has recently performed solo and chamber music at the Festival Radio France Montpellier, Bridging Arts Music Festival (Nuremberg, DL); and Opus 16 Concerten (NL). Highlights of recent seasons include his performance of Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 at the Festival Radio France (Montpellier, FR); solo and chamber music concerts at the Festival de Fontainebleau (France); chamber music concerts with Ensemble Calliopée (France); performances of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with several orchestras; principal cello of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne and the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra; concerts at Carnegie Hall with the New York String Orchestra Seminar; chamber music concerts with Gregor Horsch, principal cello of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. After studying at Juilliard, Andrew moved to Paris as a recipient of the U.S. Foundation’s Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship, where he studied and performed works by Duport, Debussy and Poulenc. He then joined the Cité Internationale des Arts, where he spent two years working on projects featuring Beethoven’s cello works and world music with Ensemble Kimya. He performs regularly as soloist and in sections of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National d’Île de France and as co-soloist with the Orchestre National Grand Est Metz.
