Andrea Grinberg – Cellist – Baltimore, MD

Canadian-born international cellist Andrea Grinberg made her soloist debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at age fourteen. Since then she has been a featured soloist with the Wilfrid Laurier University Symphony Orchestra, and the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, and has won a number of competitions including the Penderecki Chamber Music Prize and has been the recipient of scholarships from institutions such as Wilfrid Laurier University and the Jerusalem Academy of Music. She has performed with many conductors including Bramwell Tovey, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Bobby McFerrin, and has performed in chamber performances with the Israel Philharmonic players and in festivals internationally. As a teacher, Andrea has taught in Canada, US and Israel. In Chicago, she worked as the director of chamber strings and summer program director of The People’s Music School Youth Orchestras, numbering over 100 inner city kids. Since moving to Baltimore in 2013, Andrea has kept an active private studio, teaches inner-city kids through the Baltimore Talent Education Center, and together with her husband Yonatan Grinberg and violist Sarah Lowenstein founded “The Baltimore Bows,” a unique community string orchestra program for young students.