Anahit Harutyunyan Gaskill, violoncello, is the founder, Executive Director, and manager of the Musica Bella Orchestra. She is a graduate of the Yerevan State Conservatory in Armenia, where she studied cello with Eghishe Harutyunyan and Medea Abrahamian and chamber music with Nikolay Pogosov. She began teaching cello at a young age, and has spent most of her career on the faculty of the Khachaturian Music College and the Tchaikovsky Shool for Gifted Children, both in Yerevan, Armenia. Many of her students have become professional musicians in Armenia and Israel.She also played in the Armenian State Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestra and the Teachers’ Chamber Orchestra. Since moving to America in 1993, she has continued teaching cello, and plays chamber and orchestral music with many ensembles. She is the former associate principal cellist of the Doctors’ Orchestra, the Lawyers’ Orchestra, and the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in New York.
She has appeared as a soloist with the Musica Bella Orchestra in the Vivaldi Double Concerto on January 27, 2002, the Brahms Double Concerto on December 8, 2002, and again in the Vivaldi Double on October 1 and 4, 2006.
CHARTER MEMBER OF MUSICA BELLA
Musica Bella concerts: January 20, 2002; January 27, 2002; June 2, 2002; October 13, 2002; December 8, 2002; March 23, 2003; May 18, 2003; June 21, 2003; October 19, 2003; November 30, 2003; January 17, 2004; January 18, 2004; February 29, 2004; May 2, 2004; October 24, 2004; December 4, 2004; December 5, 2004; January 30, 2005; February 21, 2005; March 13, 2005; May 14, 2005; May 15, 2005; May 21, 2005; May 22, 2005; October 30, 2005; December 17, 2005; December 18, 2005; January 22, 2006; March 26, 2006; May 21, 2006; June 17, 2006; June 18, 2006; July 8, 2006; October 1, 2006; October 4, 2006; October 22, 2006; January 20, 2007; January 21, 2007; February 18, 2007; April 15, 2007; May 5, 2007; May 6, 2007; June 9, 2007; June 24, 2007; September 8, 2007; September 9, 2007; October 14, 2007; October 21, 2007; December 1, 2007; December 2, 2007
This bio last updated May 23, 2004.