Carter Brey
Mr. Brey was appointed principal cello of the New York Philharmonic in 1996 and has performed numerous times as a soloist with the orchestra under the batons of Kurt Masur, André Previn, Christian Thielemann, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Alan Gilbert, and Christoph Eschenbach. Mr. Brey rose to international attention in 1981 as a prizewinner in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition. He has also won the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Prize, Avery Fisher Career Grant, Young Concert Artists' Michaels Award, and other honors, and he was the first musician to win the Arts Council of America's Performing Arts Prize. Mr. Brey has performed as soloist with many of America's major symphony orchestras. As a chamber musician, he has made regular appearances with the Tokyo and Emerson string quartets, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Spoleto Festival in the United States and Italy, and the Santa Fe and La Jolla chamber music festivals, among others. His discography includes the complete works of Chopin for cello and piano with Garrick Ohlsson (Arabesque) and The Latin American Album (Helicon Records), featuring compositions from South America and Mexico with Christopher O'Riley. Mr. Brey studied with Laurence Lesser and Stephen Kates at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and with Aldo Parisot at Yale University. Mr. Brey joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2008
Peter Wiley
Mr. Wiley, a 1974 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, performs as a soloist and recitalist; is a founding member of OPUS ONE, with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and Curtis faculty members Ida Kavafian and Steven Tenenbom; and succeeded his teacher, David Soyer, as cellist of the Guarneri String Quartet. With the Beaux Arts Trio from 1987 to 1998, Mr. Wiley has played at leading festivals, including the Marlboro Music Festival, for which he also tours and records. In 1986 he made his concerto debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York String Orchestra conducted by Alexander Schneider. As a recitalist he has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Mr. Wiley entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age thirteen. At twenty he was named principal cello of the Cincinnati Symphony, after one year with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Mr. Wiley teaches at the University of Maryland and Bard College Conservatory of Music and joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1996.
