MADELINE FAYETTE, CELLO

Cellist Madeline Fayette, praised for her “charisma…lovely tone and phrasing,” is part of a new generation of artist-teachers creating audiences through inventive community engagement and compelling performances. An in-demand collaborator in both standard and experimental repertoire, she regularly performs with the Fair Trade Chamber Music Society, New York Classical Players, Shattered Glass, and innovative genre-defying organizations Cantata Profana and Heartbeat Opera. She has also appeared with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, and Broadway’s recent revival of Hello, Dolly with Bette Midler. Based in New York, Ms. Fayette has performed at some of the city’s most prestigious venues, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Sawdust, Roulette, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

In her role as cellist of the Fair Trade Chamber Music Society, Ms. Fayette designs and presents annual concerts for Music for Autism, which recognized the Society as their 2020 Spotlight Artist. Fair Trade is also a yearly artistic partner with the Corona Youth Music Project, which strives to promote social inclusion by empowering children in Corona, Queens to excel through their participation in musical ensembles. In 2019, Fair Trade held a residency at Smith College, performing works of female composers and holding workshops for composition students.

Ms. Fayette was a 2017 and 2018 guest artist at the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, where she designed school presentations, interactive performances and engrossing concert programs for audiences of all ages, which culminated in her appointment as Bravo’s Teaching-Artist-in-Residence for their 2019 season. Ms. Fayette is also an inaugural member and current Operations Manager of the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, which was founded in 2016 to present innovative concerts in fresh and unexpected ways.

Highlights of past seasons include Carnegie Hall performances of Hans Zender’s orchestration of Winteresisse with Sir Simon Rattle and Mark Padmore, and Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with legendary soprano Lucy Shelton. She has also appeared with the Joey Alexander Trio at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Ms. Fayette has performed at the Grove, Yellow Barn, Sarasota, and Kneisel Hall music festivals, and collaborated with artists such as Lucy Chapman, Alan Kay, Curtis Macomber, Roger Tapping, and Donald Weilerstein.

Ms. Fayette became one of the youngest cellists to attend the Juilliard Pre-College when she was accepted at age seven. She went on to receive both a Bachelor and Master of Music from Juilliard, where she studied with Bonnie Hampton and Natasha Brofsky. Ms. Fayette was a 2016-18 Fellow in Ensemble Connect – a post-graduate program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the NYC Department of Education – which trains classical musicians for careers that combine musical excellence with teaching, community engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership.