Aurelia Faidley-Solars is a 14-year old American cellist who has garnered international attention as a young concert artist. Aurelia currently studies at the Juilliard School of Music with Zvi Plesser and is the recipient of The Jacobs Scholarship of Music. She is also a 2023-2024 From the Top Fellow and the youngest Beare’s International Artist.
Aurelia made her orchestra debut at age ten with the Amati Orchestra in Lausanne, Switzerland, receiving nine curtain calls for her performance of Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C Major. She has also recently performed with the London Concert Sinfonia, the Chamber Orchestra of the UK, and the State Orchestra of Hamburg in Germany. Other orchestral performances include the New Hampshire Philharmonic, the Fox Valley Symphony in Chicago, the Ashland Symphony Orchestra in Ohio, the Sempre Musick Symphony in Boston, the Metropolitan Symphony of New York, the Montgomery Symphony in Ohio, the NJ Virtuosi Sinfonietta in New Jersey, the SEEN Orchestra in Chicago, and the Manhattan Sinfonietta, the Northeastern Sinfonietta in Boston, and the NY Chamber Players at Carnegie Hall. Already a champion for new music, Aurelia gave the world premiere of Canzoni Burlesche, a piece for Cello and Piano by Italian composer, Alessandro Spazzoli in April, 2024.
Her major pedagogical influences include Hans Jorgen Jensen, her long-time teacher and mentor, Fred Sherry, John-Henry Crawford, and Zlatomir Fung. Aurelia has also worked closely with world-renowned conductor, Benjamin Zander. In the fall of 2024, Aurelia will enter 11th grade at The Professional Children’s School in Manhattan.