16/12/2024
Nous avons une admiration immense pour nos artistes résidents, et aujourd'hui, nous souhaitons rendre hommage à Maureen Hynes. Si vous avez assisté à ses concerts ou eu l'occasion de lui parler, vous savez à quel point elle est formidable ! Si vous l'avez entendue jouer du violoncelle, mettez un👏👏👏 dans les commentaires ci-dessous !
Maureen Hynes enjoys an active career as a soloist, conductor, chamber
musician, educator and orchestral player. She performs regularly with the
American Ballet Theater, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Orchestra
of New York, American Composers Orchestra, the Bard Festival Orchestra, the
Westchester Philharmonic and the Queens Symphony. She has also appeared
with the Royal Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, at the Spoleto and Aspen
Festivals, the Lake George Opera Festival and with the Bard Festival Chamber
Players. Her work in New York has also included substitute work in many
Broadway shows and for the Radio City Christmas show.
Her solo and chamber music appearances have included performances at
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Phillips
Collection in Washington D.C., the Kennedy Center, the New York Society for
Ethical Culture, the Bayside Historical Society and the historic Old Whaler’s
Church in Sag Harbor. A winner of the Concert Artists Guild Award with the Janus
Ensemble, she is currently a member of the Pierrot Consort. She has performed in
Europe, Canada, Korea and Hong Kong both as cellist and on the viola da gamba.
Since the summer of 2011, she appears as soloist, chamber musician and faculty
at Songe d’été en musique in Québec, Canada.
Ms. Hynes was Director of Orchestral and String Studies and Professor of
Cello at the LIU POST campus of Long Island University. She was the conductor
of the LIU Post Orchestra, the conductor and creator of the LIU Post String
Ensemble, co-founder of the LIU Post Chamber Music Festival and Director of the
Merriweather Consort, which specializes in Renaissance music. She also created
and directed the LIU Post Pre-College Program.
In 2009, she received the Adjunct Faculty Recognition Award from LIU Post
for her contributions to the Department of Music and in addition, she is listed in
the Marquis “Who’s Who of American Women”.
In the fall of 2015, she became a member of the faculty of the Manhattan
School of Music where she teaches Introductory and Advanced Conducting
classes. Her conducting career has included conducting the 2016-2017 season of
the Queens Symphony, the oldest professional orchestra in Queens. She recently
conducted the QSO in June of 2023. In November of 2019, she was invited to
Guest Conduct the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. She has conducted the LIU Post
String Ensemble on tours in Italy and Ireland and has been the conductor for the
Nassau All-County Festivals at Tilles Center, the SCMEA Festivals, the Long
Island String Festivals in Nassau and Suffolk Counties and the Area-1 All-State
String Orchestra in Fredonia. She is an adjudicator for Worldstrides Heritage
Festivals.
Ms. Hynes is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where she
received her B.M. and M.M. degrees. She has given Cello Master Classes in Seoul,
Korea and on Long Island and has recorded for the Albany label. She is a member
of Chamber Music America, Early Music America, NAFME and the American String
Teachers Association.
