Trevor Handy
cello
Trevor Handy was born in Boston in 1965 and received his early musical training at the Longy School of Music, New England Conservatory and Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. As a teenager, he performed twice as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At age 17, he enrolled at The Juilliard School where he graduated with BM and MM degrees, a student of Leonard Rose, Channing Robbins, Joel Krosnick and Lorne Munroe. While at Juilliard, he studied baroque cello and chamber music with Albert Fuller and Jaap Schroeder as well as string quartets with the Juilliard String Quartet. He earned fellowships to Tanglewood, the Aspen Music Festival (for both orchestral and quartet studies) and he attended the Yehudi Menuhin Summer Academy (Gstaad, Switzerland) and Lausanne, Switzerland Academy of Music Master Classes with Maurice Gendron.
While freelancing in New York City, he formed the Griffon String Quartet with friends. The group gave concerts in the Northeast and Midwest for three years and won the grand prize at the 1991 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Also during this time Trevor was a teaching assistant in ear training at Juilliard and served on its pre-college solfege faculty.
Trevor Handy is a former member of the Columbus, Honolulu, Jacksonville, New Haven and Santa Barbara symphony orchestras. He has presented both solo and chamber music recitals at the College of Wooster, Central Presbyterian Church in Columbus as part of its “Sundays at Central” Series, Ohio State University’s Weigel Auditorium, the Duxbury Art Complex and Pickman Hall of the Longy School in Massachusetts and at the Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu.
He has been a member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 2002.
