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Jeffrey Noel Lastrapes is a cellist, chamber musician, recitalist, and teacher. He has appeared throughout the
United States, Europe, and South America, with concerts and recitals at The Curtis Institute of Music, The
Juilliard School, Steinway Hall in New York, and numerous others. He has been soloist with the Monroe Symphony
Orchestra, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, the Midland-Odessa Symphony, the Ibex Chamber Orchestra of New
York, the Lower Marion Symphony of Philadelphia, and the Festival Orchestra in Vina del Mar, Chile. Appearances
at festivals include the Evian Festival in France, the Bellingham Festival, Sevenars Festival, the OK Mozart
Festival, the National Cello Congress in Phoenix, Mid-Atlantic Chamber Music Society, Interlochen Center for the
Arts, and twice at the Gregor Piatigorsky Seminar at the University of Southern California.
After earning his bachelor of music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied
under the renowned pedagogue Orlando Cole, Lastrapes was awarded the Robert Brereton full scholarship to the
Juilliard School where he received his Master of Music degree with Harvey Shapiro. He has had master classes
with such cellists as Rostropovich, Paul Tortelier, Joel Krosnik, Yo Yo Ma, and Lynn Harrell. In 1991, Lastrapes
represented the United States in the International Competition for Violoncello in Chile and won two of the four
major prizes. He is also the recipient of the Lighthouse Award for Outstanding Achievement, which included a
recital in New York.
Positions held include principal cello with the Curtis, Juilliard and Temple University orchestras, the Haddonfield
Symphony, New Jersey, and the Midland-Odessa Symphony in Texas. Currently he is Principal Cellist of the Quartz
Mountain Music Festival Chamber Orchestra and Associate Principal of the Tulsa Symphony. He was also the cellist
of the Lindsayan String Quartet for three seasons and a former faculty member of Oklahoma State University and
the Collegiate School (NY). Lastrapes has performed frequently on radio and television including broadcasts over
Radio France, Northwave Radio of Japan, National Public Radio, National Television and Radio of Chile, and three
live recitals on WFLN of Philadelphia. He has recorded for New World Records and West Virginia University Press.
He has served on the Cello and Chamber music faculty of the Interlochen Center for the Arts since 1996. He is
also assistant professor of cello at Texas Tech University and cellist and a founding member of Quartet-a-tete
Piano Quartet.
Lastrapes performs on a Francesco Ruggieri cello dated 1684.
To contact Jeffrey Lastrapes, email him at jeffrey.lastrapes@ttu.edu.
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