Phoebe Carrai, a native Bostonian, started playing the cello at the age of 10. She fell in love with the Baroque cello and the Early Music Movement whilst a student of Lawrence Lesser at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where she earned both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees.
In 1979, Ms. Carrai won a Beebe Foundation Grant to undertake post Graduate studies in Historical Performance Practice with Nicolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
In 1983, Ms. Carrai joined the chamber music ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln and worked exclusively with them for the next ten years, touring and teaching in The United States, Scandinavia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South America. At that time she taught at the Hilversum Conservatory in Holland.
Now living in the United States again, Phoebe Carrai appears both in chamber music and as an international soloist. Her recording of the J.S. Bach 6 solo cello suites were released in 2004 and the Duos of Friederich August Kummer in 2006, both on the Avie label. She performs regularly with The Arcadian Academy, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Nicholas McGegan); and the Festpiel Orchester Goettingen.
She is a member of the faculties of the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany , The Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachussetts. and will be joining the faculty of the Juilliard School of Muisc in NY in the fall of 2009. Ms. Carrai is also a founding member and co-director of the International Baroque Institute at Longy and the Director of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra .
Phoebe Carrai performs on an anonymous Italian cello from c. 1690 and has recorded for Aetma, Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Telarc, Decca and BMG .
Ms. Carrai appears in "Music at Fever Pitch" on April 3 at Old South Church and April 5 at Jordan Hall. Her last solo appearance with the Society was in April 2000.
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