Cello with Alina L.

Cellist Alina is as versatile a chamber musician as she is a performer in solo and orchestral music. As a soloist, Alina has performed with orchestras such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Seongnam Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Symphony Orchestra and the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist and and chamber musician in Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in NY, Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, Canada, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, and South Orange Performing Arts Center in NJ. Recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, she has performed on the NPR show From the Top, and has been featured on WFMT in Chicago, ABC Classic FM in Australia, on the MBC Network in South Korea, and on CBC Radio Two in Canada. As an orchestral musician, she has appeared at the BBC Proms in London and the Lincoln Center Festival as part of the Juilliard Orchestra Tour in 2012. With the Allant Trio, she was a winner at the Beverly Hills Auditions in California as well as recipient of the Jonathan Madrigano Entrepreneurship Grant from The Juilliard School. Alina has participated in music festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival and School, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Chamber Music Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Alina began her cello studies with Joowon Kim at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada, where she continued her studies with David Hetherington. She has studied with Richard Aaron and Marcy Rosen in New York City, where she has received her Bachelor and Master of Music at the Juilliard School.