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Stephen Erdody was born in Linden, New Jersey. He is a graduate of the Juillard School where he received both his bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. While at the Juillard School, Mr. Erdody was principal cellist of the Juillard Orchestra, the recipient of the Otto G. Storm and Juillard Alumni Scholarships, and the winner of the Morris Loeb Prize for Outstanding Achievement in String Studies. He was the founding cellist of the New York String Quartet, and has served as principal and solo cellist of the Pacific Symphony, Opera Pacific, American Ballet Theater, the Dance Theater of Harlem and the Joffrey Ballet (for which Mr. Erdody performed the C.P.E. Bach Cello Concerto in the World Premiere of Mark Morris' ballet, "The Esteemed Guest" at the Los Angeles Music Center). He is a former member of the music faculties at the University of California, Irvine and the Aspen Music Festival. From 1987 until 2002, Stephen was the cellist of the highly acclaimed Angeles String Quartet, which won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for their complete recordings of the 68 Haydn String Quartets, a 21-disc set on the Philips Label. In 2003, Mr. Erdody founded Chamber Music Los Angeles, an organization that supports nonprofits that enrich children's lives through the performing arts, particularly children who are terminally ill, at risk, or have little exposure to the arts. Stephen is very active in the Motion Picture and Recording Industry. He can be heard most recently in John Williams’ two most recent scores: “Munich”(as solo cello), and “Memoirs of a Geisha”, where he performs a duo with cellist, Yo-Yo Ma. Mr. Erdody resides in Altadena, California with his wife, Juliana, their eight-year old son, Daniel, and their dog, Macabee. Stephen plays on an 1844 Antonio Gibertini cello and a cello made by Joseph Grubaugh and Sigrun Seifert in 1989, as well as bows by Eugene Sartory and Paul Martin Siefried. |
