ELLA TOOVEY
Violoncello

Manhattan School of Music, Lucy Moses Music School

Cellist Ella Toovy has performed worldwide in numerous recitals, chamber music concerts and with orchestras in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, as well as in her native country of Israel. Her playing has been noted for “possessing capacity of cantabile to great finesse-so well balanced with sonority and expression” (‘Granma’ Newspaper, Cuba), and as “breath taking” (Greenfest, New Music Connoisseur). Her work has been recorded for television and radio broadcast internationally.

A winner of the Artist International Chamber Music Award (Motyl, 2003), Toovy has performed in Weill Recital Hall, as well as at the Merkin Concert Hall, the Kfar Bloom Chamber Music Festival in Israel, the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, The Musica Viva festival, The Grandes De La Musica Festival, Steinway Hall, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as many others important venues in the US and abroad.

An experienced and versatile player, Toovy has explored modern and contemporary music (including works by “degenerate music” composers and a world premiere by Octavio Vazquez) to music by the early masters (including solo performances of Couperin for a residency in Cuba).

She has further collaborated with a variety of artists, including choreographers at the La Mama Theater in New York City. Toovy has extensive orchestral experience, having played under conductors Kurt Masur, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Gerald Schwartz, to name a few.

Ms. Toovy joined the cello and chamber music faculty of the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Division this fall. She has also been on the faculty at the Hartwick Summer Music Festival where she taught cello and chamber music. Toovy is on the faculty of the Lucy Moses School at the Kaufman Center, and is a coach for the New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program.

Ms. Toovy earned her MM from the Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Alan Stepansky, and a BA and a BM from the Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem where she studied with Shmuel Magen. She has played in master classes for Steven Isserlis, Arnold Steinhardt, and Aldo Parisot and has studied chamber music with Isidore Cohen, Jacob Lateiner, Hagai Shaham, and Sylvia Rosenberg.