Amici String Trio

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Amici String Trio

Olga Celli

I’m Olga, a cellist, teacher, soloist, and artist. I’m located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but I teach students around the world through Skype. My students are of all ages and learning levels. Cello is my passion. I enjoy sharing this passion through performance and teaching cello online. The online format gives students worldwide an opportunity to achieve their dream of playing the cello.

Jennifer Faure

Jennifer Faure holds a Master’s degree in Violin Performance from Duquesne University. She co-founded a string chamber music camp, has performed internationally, worked with major orchestras across four states, and led master classes in the U.S. and South America. She was a member of the Faure String Trio and is currently part of the Amici String Trio.

Raúl Fauré

Raúl Fauré began his musical studies in violin in Puerto Montt, Chile. While a student at Catholic University of Chile, he began studying viola, and was a member of the Chamber Orchestra of the Music Institute. He was invited by the Dean of the Music Institute to be part of the IMUC (Catholic University Institute of Music) String Quartet in Residence at the University. With this Quartet, he premiered numerous South American pieces and performed throughout Chile.

Raúl was also a founding member of the Sur String Quartet in Santiago, Chile; and a member of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile for five years prior to moving to the United States.

Raúl has performed for Chamber Music and Solo Master classes with the Tokyo String Quartet, the Aurin String Quartet (Germany), Christoff Poppen (Germany), Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Edgar Fischer, Atar Arad (former violist of Cleveland String Quartet), Sidney Harth and members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra such as Randolph Kelly, Isaias Zelkowicz, David Premo, and Jeff Turner among others.

He received a Performance Residency Program Certificate from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 under full scholarship, studying with Maestro Atar Arad. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Music Performance from Duquesne University, where he studied with Randolph Kelly, former Principal Viola of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

As a soloist, Raúl has performed Sinfonia Concertante by Mozart and Trauermusik by Hindemith with the Chamber Orchestra of the Alleghenies, and Romanza by Bruch with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra where he was principal viola for 8 years. He presented a residency and lecture with the internationally renowned Chilean Composer Gustavo Becerra Schmidt.

He has extensive experience performing Chamber Music, and was invited to be a member of the Duquesne University Graduate String Quartet for two years performing in the metropolitan Pittsburgh area, and was a founding member of the Fauré String Trio. Raúl also collaborated the Litton String Quartet in Residence at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, IUP.

Raúl currently work for a Software company as Solutions Consultant serving mainly Fortune 500 companies.

His viola was made by Patrick E. Higgins in 2007 in Cincinnati, OH.

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