Silk Road Ensemble Artists

Edward Arron
cello (b. 1977, United States)

"When I began working with the Silk Road Project, I had spent the prior season playing great German and French music. I had been working so intensely that I was frustrated with the way I was playing. I was searching for new ideas. I arrived at the Silk Road workshop and began playing a piece with Nasriden Ruziev, who played eleven different instruments that I had never encountered before, and the composer didn't speak a word of English and he was so passionate he was screaming at me. But his music really spoke to me. It created a picture and history of places I'd never been. Suddenly, I felt so liberated."

Edward Arron is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he was a student of Harvey Shapiro. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, he began his studies at the age of seven with Charles Snavely and later studied with Peter Wiley in New York. He has played in master classes conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich and Janos Starker and has appeared as a soloist with Orchestras including the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Arron has been the artistic administrator and performer for WQXR’s On A-i-R series, a weekly radio broadcast featuring the Caramoor Virtuosi.

A dedicated performer of chamber music, Arron has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, Ravinia, Tanglewood, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Isaac Stern’s Jerusalem Chamber Music Encounters and Bargemusic, as well as at Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Arron performs as a member of the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and the Concertante Chamber Players. He has been a member of the Kim-Jacobsen-Arron Trio since 1990.

Edward Arron performs with the Silk Road Ensemble and appears on the album Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet.