Wendy Warner, Cello

Biography

Wendy Warner has become one of the leading cellists in the
world. Her reputation and collective critical adulation now precedes her almost
everywhere she goes and has undoubtedly reached global proportions with
concerts from New York's Carnegie Hall to Boston's Symphony Hall, from Paris'
Salle Pleyel to Berlin's Philharmonie. She has toured North America with the
National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich conducting and the Moscow
Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov conducting.

Recent seasons have seen highly successful performances with many of the
world's finest orchestras and conductors. These have included the Chicago
Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the National Symphony, the San Francisco
Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony
and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In Europe and around the world she has
performed with the London Symphony (Barbican Center, London), the Berlin
Symphony (Philharmonie Hall, Berlin), the Moscow Virtuosi (Carnegie Hall, New
York), the Hong Kong Philharmonic (Hong Kong), the French Radio Philharmonic
Orchestra (Salle Pleyel, Paris), the Iceland Symphony (Reykjavik), and
L'Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse (Toulouse).

Highlights of her 2003/2004 season saw performances with Gidon Kremer at New
York's Carnegie Hall and Los Angeles's Walt Disney Hall, as well as
performances with orchestras across the country. Her 2004/2005 season includes
a tour with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota and performances with
the Utah Symphony and Keith Lockhart.

In the past three years three CDs have been released
featuring Wendy Warner. The first on Bridge Records with works for cello by
Hindemith, the second featuring duos for cello and violin (with Rachel Barton)
on Cedille Records and just recently the critics praised her recording of the
Barber Concerto with Marin Alsop and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra on
Naxos Records.

To date she has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich, Christoph Eschenbach,
Andre Previn, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Vladimir Spivakov, Charles Dutoit, Eiji Oue
and Michael Tilson Thomas amongst others. Wendy has appeared in recital
throughout the world, including performances in Chicago, Milan and Tokyo and
recently appeared with Anne-Sophie Mutter, performing the Brahms Concerto for
Violin and Cello with L'Orchestre de Paris, Semyon Bychkov conducting.

In the 1994/95 season Wendy toured with the Moscow Virtuosi and Vladimir
Spivakov in Toronto, Chicago and New York's Carnegie Hall. The same season
brought her recital debut in Munich, followed by recitals and orchestral solo
performances in Paris and in Los Angeles, as well as her debut with the
European Soloists of Luxembourg at Frankfurt's Alter Oper, her solo debut with
the Detroit Symphony (with Leslie Dunner); and performances with the Orchestre
National Bordeaux Aquitaine.

In the summer of 1996, Ms. Warner toured Japan as soloist with NHK and the
Japan Philharmonic and appeared with the Dallas Symphony and in New York's Mostly
Mozart Music Festival at Avery Fisher Hall. Highlights of Ms. Warner's recent
seasons saw her debut with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic with Yuri Falik
conducting, as well as performances with the Detroit Symphony under the baton
of Neeme Jarvi, the New World Symphony with Lawrence Foster conducting, and was
invited to perform in recital and with orchestra at the 70th birthday
celebration concert of Rostropovich in Kronberg, Germany and with Rostropovich
in the Vivaldi double concerto at Reims in France.

In the summer of 1998 she appeared at the Grand Teton Music Festival in a
performance of the Dvorak cello concerto with Eiji Oue and in January of 1999
she debuted with the Montreal Symphony in a performance of the Haydn C major
concerto. Continuing with her great interest in America's youth in music, in
March of 1999 Wendy appeared in a special concert at Symphony Hall, Boston with
the Greater Boston Youth Symphony under the baton of David Commanday.

Miss Warner recently completed two full last seasons which included
performances across the United States and Canada including concerts with the
Colorado Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the Jacksonville Symphony, the
Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Hartford
Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, the New Mexico Symphony and the Omaha
Symphony.

Wendy Warner was first brought to the attention of the world stage when in 1990
she was awarded First Prize in the Fourth International Rostropovich
Competition in Paris. Frans Helmerson, the distinguished Swedish cellist, was
quoted in The New York Times as saying, "I'm not sure I've ever before
heard a young cellist with such potential. Everything that is basic to cello
playing she already has, plus a natural stage presence that you rarely find. At
this age (18) she's unbelievable."

Ms. Warner made her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Mstislav Rostropovich in October 1990 playing the Shostakovich Concerto No. 1.
Immediately following she was reengaged to appear with them on a North American
tour in 1991. She was also the featured soloist on the 1991 European tour of
the Bamberg Symphony, again conducted by Rostropovich, making her debuts in
Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Koln, Dusseldorf and Berlin.

Ms. Warner is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and was the student
of Nell Novak from age 6 until joining Mstislav Rostropovich at Curtis. An
accomplished pianist as well, she has studied with Emilio del Rosario at The
Music Center. In 1991, she was awarded a prestigious Avery Fischer Career grant
and debuted at New York's Carnegie Hall.

With standing ovations, immediate re engagements, with the world's leading
newspaper critics repeatedly inspired to make such comments as
"miraculous", " flawless" and "exquisite, with full
world wide concert seasons ahead, and increasing public notoriety, Wendy Warner
is quite simply one of the most notable soloists on the international concert
stage.