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Timothy Eddy has earned distinction as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, chamber musician, recording artist, and as a winner in numerous national and international competitions. In June of 1975, Mr. Eddy received top honors at the Gaspar Cassado International Violoncello Competition, held in Florence, Italy. He has also won prizes in the Dealey Contest (Dallas), the Denver Symphony Guild Competition, the North Carolina Symphony Contest, and the New York Violoncello Society competition. In addition to numerous solo and chamber recitals throughout the U.S., he has appeared as concerto soloist with many U.S. orchestras, including the Dallas, Denver, Stamford, Jacksonville, and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras.
Mr. Eddy received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees with honors from the Manhattan School of Music, where he was a scholarship student of Bernard Greenhouse. He spent several summers as a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival and has toured the U.S. frequently with the "Music From Marlboro" concert series. Recently, Mr. Eddy has spent his summers with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Steans Institute, with visits to Chamber Music Northwest (Portland, OR), Domaine Forget in Quebec, the La Jolla Summerfest, and the Bridgehampton (Long Island) Festival, as well.
Timothy Eddy presently teaches cello at the Juilliard School and the Mannes College and he is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He appears regularly in duo recital with pianist Gilbert Kalish. He has been a member of the NY Philomusica and the Bach Aria Group. As cellist of the Orion String Quartet (with Daniel and Todd Phillips, violins, and Steven Tenenbom, viola), he is in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Mannes College of Music, and Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music ( 2007- 2008). With the Orion Quartet, he has appeared in major musical centers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including festivals in Lockenhaus (Austria); Spoleto (Italy); New York ("Mostly Mozart"); Charleston, SC; Mondsee (Austria); Lofoten Island (Norway); Turku (Finland); and Vancouver (Canada). Mr. Eddy has recorded for Koch International, Columbia Records, Angel, Vanguard, Nonesuch, C.R.I., New World, Vox, Musical Heritage, Delos, Arabesque, and Sony Classical.
During the 2003 - 2004 season, Mr. Eddy presented, for the first time, the complete Six Suites of J. S. Bach for Solo Cello in two consecutive days, at the Boulder (Colorado) Bach Festival and at the Brattleboro (Vermont) Music Center. This project is the realization of a lifelong ambition and the culmination of years of study and performance of these landmark works, as well as extensive performance of the cantatas, chamber music, and orchestral music of Bach.
Timothy Eddy is highly sought-after as a teacher, and his former pupils have come from England, France, Germany, Holland, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, and Korea, as well as the U.S. and Canada, and they have won positions in major orchestras and universities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Far East; many have also achieved distinction in their careers as chamber musicians and soloists. Mr. Eddy was a member of the faculty of the bi-annual Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall in 1993, 1995, 1997, and 2001.
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