| ANDREW DUNN grew up in Portland. Beginning cello studies at age eight, he studied with John Hubbard, Pansy Chang, and Hamilton Cheifetz. In 2002, he enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Richard Aaron and Merry Peckham. He also studied chamber music with Peter Salaff, Ginny Weckstrom, and all the members of the Cavani string quartet. He has played in master classes for Janos Starker, Norman Fischer, and members of the Borromeo and Miami string quartets. While still in Portland, Chamber Music Northwest chose Andrew’s quartet to participate in a coaching/performing series with the Miro string quartet. While a second year student at Cleveland, Andrew participated in a televised performance of the last movement of the Mendelssohn Octet for strings with members of the Cavani and former Cleveland Quartet.
Andrew is a two-time winner of the Oregon State Solo Competition. He performed the Boccherini B flat Major concerto with the Mid-Columbia Sinfonietta in 2000. He played regularly with both the Portland Youth Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Youth Symphony in the Spring of 2001. He performed twice as a soloist with the chamber orchestra at the Young Musicians program at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon in 1999 and 2000. He has won numerous other competitions in the Oregon area. In 2002, he was the recipient of a $1400 scholarship in the Tuesday Musical Society of Akron Scholarship auditions.
During the summers, Andrew has attended programs such as the Quartet Program, Quartet Program Europe, Britt Chamber Strings, the Encore School for Strings, and the Henry Mancini Institute. While at the Mancini Institute, he performed with such luminaries as Bobby McFerrin and Doc Severinsen. Andrew has performed with many professional orchestras, including the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra and the Portland Festival Symphony, and worked as a teacher and mentor for the Cleveland Institute of Music preparatory department and the Erie Youth Symphony. He is currently enrolled in the masters program at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University as a student of Lynn Harrell.
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