Andrea Casarrubios

Andrea Casarrubios (born February 19, 1988) is a Spanish-American cellist and composer. She has played as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and has appeared more than 20 times at Carnegie Hall since 2012. She has performed at numerous festivals such as Ravinia Festival and Verbier Festival, and her compositions have been programmed worldwide, presented by organizations including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall,National Public Radio, ABC Classic, and the Spanish National Radio RTVE.
==Early life and education==
Andrea Casarrubios García was born in San Esteban del Valle, Spain. She began playing the piano at age 2 and cello at age 4. Her first music teachers were María Escribano and Ana Toca. Casarrubios studied cello with Maria de Macedo in Madrid from 2000-2007 and piano in Toledo with Ludmil Angelov. At age 18, she moved to USA to pursue her Bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins University with Amit Peled, then her Master's degree at University of Southern California under the tutelage of Ralph Kirshbaum, and her Doctoral degree at City University of New York where she worked with cellist Marcy Rosen and composer John Corigliano.
==Career==
Andrea Casarrubios has performed in Brazil, Mexico, Spain, South Africa, Romania, Switzerland, Italy, France, Germany, England, China, Japan, Canada, and the United States of America.
Casarrubios' album, Caminante, presents some of her own original music. Released on Odradek Records, it was chosen as one of the Best 2019 Classical Music Albums by Australia’s ABC Classic, celebrating her artistry as "superhuman." Her acclaimed solo work SEVEN (2020) "an intense and elegiac tribute to the essential workers during the pandemic" (The New York Times ) was commissioned by Thomas Mesa and is being performed worldwide.
Recent compositions include Herencia for String Orchestra (2023) commissioned and toured by Sphinx Virtuosi, giving its Carnegie Hall premiere at Stern Auditorium on October 20th, 2023. Casarrubios' Piano Quintet (2023), a Chamber Music Monterey Bay commission, was premiered by Manhattan Chamber Players on November 11th, 2023. Afilador (2022) was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association for MusicNOW, and premiered at the Symphony Center on February 20th, 2023.
Casarrubios has composed pieces to expand the repertoire that is learned at music conservatories, often teaching masterclasses at universities such as The Juilliard School, University of Southern California, Eastman School of Music, University of Kansas, and City University of New York, among other institutions.
==Catalogue of original works==
===Orchestra and choral===
* Caminante for cello and choir (2014)
* 24 Mozas for cello and string orchestra (2017)
* MIRAGE Concerto for cello and orchestra (2019)
* Anthem & Chorale for string orchestra (2020-2022)
* Afilador for orchestra (2022)
* Herencia ​for string orchestra (2023)
===Chamber ensemble===
* Maktub for three cellos (2013)
* Maktub for string trio (2013)
* luzAzul: Passacaglia for piano trio (2016)
* in the age of noise for string trio (2020)
* in the age of noise for cello trio (2020)
* Overture & Chorale for cello quartet (2020)
* Overture & Chorale for string quartet (2020)
* Anthem for cello quartet (2022)
* The Airport Jog for cello quartet (2022)
* The Airport Jog ​for cello choir (2022)
* Afilador for clarinet, violin, viola, cello (2022)
* Afilador for flute, violin, viola, cello (2022)
* Piano Quintet for 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (2023) 
===Solo and duo===
* Amid a Place of Stone for solo violin (2020)
* Mensajes del Agua for violin and piano (2019)
* SEVEN for solo cello (2020)
* Armadura for solo cello (2022)
* Silbo for cello and piano (2021)
* 24 Mozas for cello and piano (2017)
* Sonia for cello and piano (2023)
* Mensajes del Agua for cello and piano (2019)
* Candezas: Haydn's C major Cello Concerto (2021)
* Magnitude for viola and piano (2022)
* Day 30 for viola and cocktail shaker (2020)
* Crisol: Improvisations on a theme by Haydn for piano (2018)
* Chorale for piano (2020)​
* Sandglass for piano (2022)
* El Paseo de los Tristes for guitar (2021)
* La Libertad se levantó llorando for violin, cello and recitation (2017)
* Speechless for cello and percussion: vibraphone, bowed cymbal, marimba (2015)
Category:1988 births
Category:Cellists
Category:Composers
Category:Spanish people