Arash Amini

Cellist Arash Amini has performed as soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician throughout the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, France, Germany, Japan, and Botswana. His many performances include his New York debut recital in Alice Tully Hall in 2010, Beethoven’s “Triple Concerto” with the Oakland East Bay Symphony in 2011, at two Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops in Carnegie Hall, the Ravinia Festival, Smithsonian Institution, Verbier Festival and Academy in Switzerland, Bard Music Festival, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian; on Great Performers at Lincoln Center, MoMA’s Summergarden series, and the Curtis Alumni Recital series; and for The Creative Coalition and Americans for the Arts. He has also performed chamber music with André Watts, Barbara Hendricks, Nigel Kennedy, Cho-Liang Lin, Mischa Maisky, Julian Lloyd Webber, and Sharon Isbin. 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 performs throughout the U.S.

Arash Amini has performed as the cellist of Mark O’Connor’s piano trio- including with Rosanne Cash, and as Principal Cellist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Riverside Symphony, and Long Island Philharmonic, among many others. He has performed countless world and U.S. premieres of solo and chamber music works, including pieces by Jennifer Higdon, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Tania León, Behzad Ranjbaran, Robert Paterson, Jind?ich Feld, Steven R. Gerber, and Iannis Xenakis. He also performs with the American Symphony Orchestra and American Composers Orchestra and is a member of American Modern Ensemble, Avian Music, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Arash Amini’s performances have been heard on NPR and WQXR’s McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase; he has been featured in The New York Times, Houston Chronicle,and Tages Anzeiger (Switzerland); Chamber Music, The Strad, Symphony, and Muso magazines;on the Arte television network in Europe and Voice of America broadcasts; and has recorded for the EMI, Naxos, New World, Albany, Naïve Classique, and Bridge Records labels. Arash Amini is a Daniel Pearl World Music Days Artist and a Musicians Emergency Fund Artist and Artistic Advisor.