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  Peter Opie Assistant Professor of Cello Cello View e-mail address | Log in to view e-mail w/your BSU Username MI 119 (765) 285-5423 Fax: 285-5401 School of Music Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306 Add Contact Info to Outlook Additional Info Cello Biography Peter Opie is Assistant Professor of Cello at Ball State University, cellist of the American Piano Trio, and Principal Cello of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra. Originally from the United Kingdom, he studied in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Oleg Kogan and Raphael Sommer, before studying with Richard Aaron at the Cleveland Institute of Music where he was awarded the Helen Curtis Webster prize. His doctoral studies took place at the University of Michigan with Anthony Elliott. In addition he studied privately with Eleonore Schoenfeld, Desmond Hoebig and Marc Coppey and enjoyed chamber music studies with members of the Cleveland and Takács String Quartets, and the Florestan Piano Trio. He has performed frequently with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and whilst a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival, performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and studied chamber music with Pamela Frank, Paul Katz, and Mark Sokol. He has also appeared in chamber music with faculty from the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Michigan Chamber Players, the Chester String Quartet, members of the Cleveland Orchestra and has toured the United States with the Five Seasons Chamber Players, with whom he has also premiered new works, and performed on NPR. Formerly on the faculty of Eastern Michigan University, he also serves on the faculty of the Five Seasons Chamber Music Festival, based in Cedar Rapids Iowa. |
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