John Whitfield has performed as recitalist and
chamber musician across the United States and abroad. Highlights include
chamber and solo engagements in Moscow, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Salzburg,
Vienna, and Innsbruck as well as New York, Washington D.C.,San Francisco,
and Philadelphia. He is currently cellist of the Cygnus Ensemble, and Newband,
and has appeared the New York New Music Ensemble, Ensemble 21, Musician's
Accord, the New York Guild of Composers, Merkin Hall's Heritage Series,
Composers Concordance and Merkin Hall's Music Today Ensemble among others.
An advocate of contemporary music, he has given New York and World Premieres
of numerous solo and chamber works by such composers as Sebastian Currier,
Mario Davidovsky, Aaron
Jay Kernis, Steven
Mackey, Randy Woolf, and Julia
Wolfe. He has been heard on WNYC's "Around
New York," WQXR's "The Listening Room," and National Public
Radio's "Performance Today." Mr. Whitfield has recorded on the
Point, Music & Arts, CRI, Koch, and Soundspells
labels. His teachers include Robert Marsh at the North Carolina School of
the Arts, Lawrence Lesser and Colin Carr at the New England Conseratory,
and Timothy Eddy at SUNY Stony Brook where he earned the degree of Doctor
of Musical Arts. He currently teaches cello at Princeton
University and the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival.