Styra avins biography of barack

Styra Avins was born and educated in New York City, where she earned a B.A.

Magna cum Laude in Social Studies from the City College of New York and went on to study cello at the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. She was awarded a Master of Music degree at the Manhattan School, joined the American Symphony Orchestra and the New York City Opera orchestra, and has worked extensively as a free lance cellist in New York City.

She is currently a faculty member of the Bennington Chamber Music Festival, in Vermont.

Avins is author of Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters (Oxford University Press, 1997), and has contributed chapters to Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style ( Cambridge University Press, 2003) , Brahms and His World (Princeton University Press, 2009), and Brahms in the Home and Concert Hall (Cambridge U.

Press, 2014). Her writings include numerous art