Andrew Koutroubas is a cellist and multi-instrumentalist specializing in historical performance. A strong believer in the transformative power of music, Koutroubas is a founding director of New Hampshire-based non-profit, Silentwoods Collective Inc, an organization committed to community building through music and the arts.
As a cellist, Koutroubas has performed and recorded with Grammy winning ensembles such as Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Early Music Festival, and has performed in the US, and abroad, with Aston Magna, Boston Baroque, Juilliard 415, Les Arts Florissants, MA Festival Bruges, Concerto Romano, Boston Camerata, American Symphony Orchestra, Ars Lyrica Houston, Upper Valley Baroque, NH Philharmonic, and many others.
Andrew studied historical performance at the Longy School of Music of Bard College earning a Master of Music degree in 2021, and The Juilliard School where he earned a Graduate Diploma in 2024.
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Violin/Viola
Cornelia Schwartz, violin, holds degrees from the Juilliard School where she studied with Szymon Goldberg and Margaret Pardee. She studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and members of the Budapest and Juilliard Quartets and has participated in master classes with Gyorgy Sebok, Henryk Szeryng and Nathan Milstein in Switzerland and with Sandor Vegh in Prussia Cove, England. Chamber music performances include; Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East, Music From Salem, Trondheim Contemporary Music Festival in Norway, Bosehaus-Bach-Museum Leipzig, Monadnock Music, New York Philomusica, New School Concerts, and the U-Mass-Dartmouth Guest Artist Series among others. She has also performed throughout Europe as a member of Camerata Salzburg and at the Bach Aria, Grand Teton, Norfolk and Caramoor music festivals. Ms. Schwartz is the recipient of an Artist Opportunity Grant from The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and teaches at Franklin Pierce University.