In addition to Orpheus, his solo appearances include the Mostly Mozart
Festival Orchestra, the Anchorage Symphony, the Hartford Chamber Orchestra,
the Aspen and Juilliard orchestras, and the New York Philharmonic's Horizons
'84 series. Bartlett is the recipient of a Solo Recitalist's Award from the
National Endowment for the Arts and a special Performance Award as a
finalist of the 1987 New England Conservatory/Piatigorsky Award. Recent
recital appearances include Avery Fisher Hall, Tokyo's Orchard Hall at
Bunkamura, and the University of California at San Diego.
Recognized as a leading performer of contemporary music, Bartlett has
participated in over sixty premieres since 1980, with ensembles such as
Speculum Musicae, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Group for
Contemporary Music, and the Columbia String Quartet; and has commissioned
new works for the cello from American composers. In September, 1986,
Bartlett gave the Warsaw premiere of Eliott Carter's Sonata for Cello and
Piano and, a month later, the European premiere of Larry Bell's Fantasia
on an Imaginary Hymn. He has served, alternately, as Artist-President
and Vice-President of Speculum Musicae since 1990. He has also performed at
the Mostly Mozart, Marlboro, Aspen, Adirondack, Grand Teton, and Waterloo
festivals, and has been the principal cellist of Mostly Mozart and
co-principal of Orpheus since 1984.
A native of Marlboro, Vermont, Bartlett's early teachers included George
Finckel and Blanche Honegger Moyse. From 1973 to 1975 he was a student of
Leopold Teraspulsky at the University of Massachusetts. He was awarded full
scholarships to both the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School
and received both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Juilliard,
where he was a student of Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins.
Eric Bartlett has served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts
and is currently on the faculties of Columbia University and Queens College.
He has recorded for CRI, Opus One, Bridge, Delos, and Deutsche Grammophon.
He lives in Bergen County, New Jersey with his wife, violist Sarah Clarke,
and their son Cory.
