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Violist Lucy Gelber is currently pursuing her Artist Diploma at the Glenn
Gould School, where she studies with Steven Dann. She recently received her
bachelor’s degree in Viola Performance from the Eastman School of Music as a
student of Masumi Rostad. Lucy began studying viola with Joli Wu at age 14 aer
defecting from her Suzuki violin studio with zero regrets.
An avid chamber musician, she founded and performed with the Andromeda
String Quartet throughout her undergraduate career, working under the guidance of
Yoojin Jang, Mikhail Kopelman, and the Ying Quartet. As a quartet, they organized
several independent recitals in collaboration with peers, performing the music of
Dvorak, Caroline Shaw, Janacek, and others. Lucy has played with numerous chamber
groups in and out of school and has attended several summer music festivals
including Bowdoin, Madeline Island, and Green Mountain.
In April 2022, Lucy made debut as a soloist alongside the Eastman
Philharmonia, performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Jory Lane as
first place winners of the Eastman concerto competition. In September 2022, Lucy was
also invited to perform Peter Hamlin’s “Before I Go My Own Way” with the Eastman
Chorale under the direction of William Weinert in a concert commemorating
Eastman’s centennial.
Lucy is an experienced orchestral musician and has served as co-principal
violist of the Eastman Philharmonia and Symphony Orchestra under Neil Varon for
four years. She has also played in the orchestra of the 2023 Endless Mountain Music
Festival with director Stephen Gunzenhauser, and she attended the Round Top
Festival Institute in 2021 as co-principal violist.
She began to take interest in early music towards the beginning of her
undergraduate in 2019, where she joined the Eastman Collegium Musicum under the
direction of Paul O’Dette and Christel Thielmann, who inspired her to pursue
Baroque viola and provided her with invaluable mentorship. Lucy received an
invitation to the Bach Virtuosi Festival, where she performed as a fellow in 2023.