Two Cellists Appointed to Faculty at the Longy School of Bard College

Nick Phontinos and Christine Lamprea will join the teaching staff at the school effective immediately

Cellists Nick Phontinos and Christine Lamprea will join the teaching staff at the school, effective immediately.

Phontinos was a Co-Artistic Director of  the Grammy Award winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird, which also received the Concert Artist Guild Grand Prize and Musical America’s Ensemble of the Year. He is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Northwestern University.

A graduate of the Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory, Lamprea is a winner of the Schadt Competition, Astral Artists National Auditions, the Sphinx Competition, and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence.