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Elinor Frey is a leading Canadian-American cellist and researcher who specializes in early music and new music. She has a special interest in the origins of the cello and bringing the music of lesser-known early Italian composer-cellists to modern audiences.

Biography
Her acclaimed CDs on the Belgian label Passacaille – most of which are world premiere recordings – include La voce del violoncello (2013), Berlin Sonatas (2015, Juno nomination, Opus prize winner) with Lorenzo Ghielmi on fortepiano, Fiorè (2017), which features soprano Suzie LeBlanc, and Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco: Cello Sonatas (2020) which received a Diapason d’Or. She will soon release Antonio Vandini: Complete Works, a project in collaboration with Marc Vanscheeuwijck. Her performance of the program from “La voce del violoncello” was the winner of the public prize at the 2013 Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe. Her critical edition of Dall’Abaco Sonatas is published in collaboration with Walhall Editions.

Frey’s debut album, Dialoghi, is titled for the solo piece written for her by Steven Stucky, and her CD of new works for Baroque cello, titled Guided By Voices, was released on the Analekta label in March 2019. These works are by Scott Godin, Linda Catlin Smith, Ken Ueno, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Maxime McKinley, and Lisa Streich. Frey’s honours include a US-Italy Fulbright Fellowship where she studied baroque cello with Paolo Beschi, the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, and American Musicological Society, and Canada Council for the Arts grants facilitating her work on Italian cello music. In recent seasons, she has performed throughout North America and Europe, as well as with her quartet, Pallade Musica. Frey holds degrees from McGill, Mannes, and Juilliard. She teaches early cello at the University of Montréal, lectures at McGill University, and is a Visiting Fellow in Music at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.

Discography

 * Giuseppe Clemente Dall'Abaco Cello Sonatas (Passacaille 2020)
 * Guided By Voices: New Music for Baroque Cello (Analekta 2019)


 * Angelo Maria Fiorè: Complete Cello Sonatas and 17th C. Italian Arias (Passacaille 2017)
 * Berlin Sonatas: Five-string cello and Silberman Fortepiano (Passacaille 2015)
 * La Voce del Violoncello: Solo Works by the First Italian Cellist-Composers (Passacaille 2013)