Ms. Eldredge has performed as soloist
with many of the world's great orchestras, including
the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago
Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Saint Louis Symphony,
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Boston
Pops, New World Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony,
Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic,
Royal Philharmonic, China National Symphony, Berlin
Symphony, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Hague
Philharmonic, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic
and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She has performed
with such distinguished conductors as Daniel Barenboim,
Zubin Mehta, Andre Previn, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin,
Marin Alsop, Krzysztof Penderecki, Yevgeny Svetlanov,
Hans Vonk, Sergiu Commissiona, Keith Lockhart, JoAnn
Falletta, Stanislaw Skrowacewski, Eiji Oue, Jorge Mester,
Otto-Werner Mueller and Jaap van Sweden.
In 2004, she was appointed as Artistic Director of the
Killington Music Festival, a summer music festival now
in its 28th year, which provides a podium to gifted
young musicians, world-renowned artists, chamber musicians
and music lovers to create and to meet through music-making
in the picturesque mountains of Vermont. At the Killington
Music Festival, she shares her interest for promoting
young musicians and educating future audiences. She
also visits school and music programs around the country
each year to promote music education to the youth of
America, a passion which has taken her into more than
a hundred school programs throughout the US.
In America, Ms. Eldredge's performances have included
a special concert in tribute to cellist Pablo Casals
at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, a guest invitation
as soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra at Lincoln Center's
Avery Fisher Hall and the distinction of being invited
to play at the White House. She has been the featured
soloist of orchestral tours including a North American
and European tour with the Warsaw Sinfonia under Krzysztof
Penderecki where the Chicago Tribune raved “Eldredge...dazzling
in her rendition of this one movement concerto (Penderecki)...the
concerto is a tour de force for a cellist who is capable
of displaying as wide an aural palette as Eldredge can.”.
She has toured England with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
including a concert in London at Queen Elizabeth Hall;
and has made four tours of Israel with the Haifa Symphony.
Of special interest was a tour of Russia for performances
with the Moscow Virtuosi and Vladimir Spivakov, which
culminated in a nationally televised gala concert, at
the Moscow Conservatory Grand Hall. She has toured every
music capital of Eastern Europe with such orchestras
as the Ukraine State Symphony and 12 cities of western
Europe with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights of recent seasons include seven recital tours
of Japan, where Japan's premiere music magazine Ongaku
No Tomo described her appearance as “ ..
an exquisite performance...her sotto voce was so beautiful
and her nuances were sensuous and enticing...."
Following her appearance with the Berlin Symphony at
the Berlin Philharmonie, Der Tagesspiegel wrote, “Allison
Eldredge played with such intensity, that, accompanied
by virtuosic accessories, the wildest bumblebee-like
runs and cascading doublestops, a passionate statement
was made.” Ms. Eldredge has also recently appeared
as soloist with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Osaka
Philharmonic, the Puerto Rico Symphony, the Buffalo
Philharmonic, the Lancaster Symphony, the Peoria Symphony,
the Boston Classical Orchestra and performances of the
Brahms Double Concerto with violinist Vladimir Spivakov
and the Hague Philharmonic.
In 2009, Ms. Eldredge released her most recent recording
on Itunes Elgar: Cello Concerto and Pomp & Circumstance
for Denon Essentials. Her discography includes two additional
CD's on the Denon Record label: Music by Chopin and
Fauré, and "If I Loved You," arrangements
of Broadway and film music for cello and piano, which
were hailed by Fanfare Magazine as "passionate,
illuminating and always enchanting." Her other
recordings include concertos by Lalo and Saint-Saëns
with the Royal Philharmonic and Hans Vonk (Pony Canyon
Classics); a recital disc with pianist Yoshie Akimoto
(Pony Canyon Classics); and, "Romantic Duet,"
an album of celebrated opera arias transcribed for violin,
cello, and orchestra (BMG) with violinist, Jaap Van
Sweden.
Ms. Eldredge's radio and television credits include
appearances on New York's WQXR, Boston's WGBH, Japan's
NHK-National Television and Radio, ABC's Good Morning
America and a performing arts documentary in which she
appeared with Isaac Stern and Yo-Yo Ma for Japanese
television. Her love of and commitment to the arts in
Vermont have made her a frequent live performer on Vermont's
Public Radio (VPR).
Highly acclaimed for her ensemble-playing, Ms. Eldredge
has shared the stage with acclaimed artists, such as
Andre Previn, Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gil Shaham.
She is a frequent guest artist of the Boston Chamber
Music Society, Bay Chamber Music Festival, the San Juan
Chamber Music Festival and the Killington Music Festival.
Other festival appearances include Ravinia, Caramoor,
Casals, Santa Fe, Rockport Chamber, Salt Bay, Waterloo
Festivals, the Colmar Festival in France, the Davos
Festival in Switzerland, the Dvorak Festival in Prague,
and the Johanessen International Festival in Victoria,
BC, among others.
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