Arash Amini Cellist Arash Amini has performed as soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician throughout the U.S., including in Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Wolf Trap, and throughout Switzerland, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, and Botswana. He has performed at two Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops in Carnegie Hall, the 1999 Irene Diamond Concert with Andre Watts in Alice Tully Hall, the Ravinia Festival, the Verbier Festival and Academy in Switzerland, and the Rencontres Musicales d'Evian, on Great Performers at Lincoln Center, the Alexander Schneider Young Artists Series in Weill Recital Hall, the Schneider Concerts at The New School, and the Curtis Alumni Recital series. He has also performed chamber music with Barbara Hendricks, Nigel Kennedy, Cho-Liang Lin, Mischa Maisky, and Julian Lloyd Webber. A graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with David Soyer, and The Juilliard School, where he studied with Aldo Parisot, Arash Amini is a co-founder, the Artistic Director, and an Artist Member of the New York-based chamber music society, America's Dream Chamber Artists, with whom he has performed throughout the U.S. He is the cellist of the Mark O'Connor Trio and performs frequently in the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and as a member of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. He has performed countless world and U.S. premieres of solo and chamber music works, his performances have been heard on WQXR and NPR, and he has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Sun, Chamber Music, The Strad, and Muso magazines, on the Arte television network in Europe, and on Voice of America television and Internet broadcasts worldwide, and has recorded for the EMI, Naxos, New World, Albany, and Bridge Records labels.