Alan Hlozek | Cellist

Performance Experience

Large Ensemble:

• – Section Cellist in Boston Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Bruce Hangen (5 Large Ensemble Cycles during Fall 2017-Spring 2021)
• – Principal Cellist of Boston Conservatory Opera Pit Orchestra, Conductor: Andrew Altenbach (2 Large Ensemble Cycles; Fall 2017-Spring 2021)
• – Co-Principal Cellist of Boston Conservatory’s “Hemenway Strings” Ensemble, Director: Lynn Chang (2 Large Ensemble Cycles during Fall 2017-Spring 2021)
• – Section Cellist in Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (BPYO), Conductor: Benjamin Zander (2016-2017)
• – Section Cellist/Assisstant-Principal Cellist in BUTI’s Young Artists Orchestras (YAO), Conductors: Lawrence Loh, Paul Haas, Ken David Masur (2016)
• – Assistant-Principal Cellist of NEC’s Youth Symphony Orchestra (YSO), Conductor: Steven Karidoyanes (2015-2016)
• – Principal Cellist of NEC’s Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Conductor: Aldo Abreu (2013-2016)
• – Principal Cellist of NEC’s Youth Repertory Orchestra (YRO), Conductor: Jane Ezbicki (2014-2015)
• – Section Cellist in NEC’s String Chamber Orchestra (SCO), Conductor: Peter Jarvis (2014-2015)
• – Section Cellist in NEC’s Junior Repertory Orchestra (JRO), Conductor: Adam Grossman (2013-2014)
• – Principal Cellist of Somerville High School Orchestra (2013-2015)
• – Section Cellist in two orchestral ensembles of Longy School of Music’s Young Performer’s Program (2011-2013)

Small Ensemble:

• – Ca. 40 coached/non-coached chamber-music ensembles at Manhattan School of Music (2021-2023)
• – Contemporary Ensemble Fellow at Atlantic Music Festival; several non-coached Pierrot ensemble performances (2021)
• – Ten coached chamber-music ensembles at Boston Conservatory at Berklee (2017-2021)
• – Coached chamber-music group at Harvard Music Festival (2018)
• – Four coached chamber-music ensembles at Killington Music Festival (2017-2018)
• – Two coached chamber-music ensembles at Le Domaine Forget (2017)
• – Two coached chamber-music ensembles at Boston University Tanglewood Institute (2016)
• – Four coached chamber-music ensembles at New England Conservatory’s Prep Program (2013-2017)
• – Various coached chamber-music ensembles at Somerville High School (2013-2015)
• – Two coached chamber-music ensembles at Longy School of Music’s Young Performers’ Program (2011-2013)

Solo:

• – Provides bi-weekly background music for Pemberton Farms Marketplace (Cambridge, MA) wine-tastings on Fridays (August 2023-Pres.)
• – Two 2nd-year MM Solo Recitals at Manhattan School of Music (New York, NY): Greenfield/Pforzheimer Hall (November 2022 and April 2023)
• – “Tactus: Solos, Duos, & More!” at Manhattan School of Music (New York, NY): Greenfield Hall (October 2022)
• – 1st-year MM Solo Recital at Manhattan School of Music (New York, NY): Myers Recital Hall (April 2022)
• – “Tactus: Solos, Duos, & More!” at Manhattan School of Music (New York, NY): Greenfield Hall (October 2021)
• – Senior Solo (recorded) Recital at Boston Conservatory at Berklee (Boston, MA): Seully Hall (April 2021)
• – Senior (remote) Studio Recital Performance for Boston Conservatory at Berklee (December 2020)
• – Junior Studio Recital Performance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee (Boston, MA): Seully Hall (December 2019)
• – Honors Chamber Music Concert (Myaskovsky Cello Sonata No. 1) at Boston Conservatory at Berklee (Boston, MA): Seully Hall (December 2019)
• – Soloist with Orchestra: Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s “The Spectrum Project” Orchestra; “Out of the Cool” by David Heath (2019)
• – Two Sophomore Solo Recitals at Boston Conservatory at Berklee (Boston, MA): T-401 Hall (December 2018 and April 2019)
• – Sophomore Studio Recital Performance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee (Boston, MA): Room 106 (November 2018)
• – Freshman Solo Recital at Boston Conservatory at Berklee (Boston, MA): T-401 Hall (April 2018)
• – Freshman Studio Recital Performance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee (Boston, MA): Seully Hall (December 2017)
• – Solo Performance at Le Domaine Forget (St. Irene, Quebec): Salle Francois-Bernier (August 2017)
• – Solo Performance at Killington Music Festival (Killington, VT): Ramshead Lodge (July 2017, July 2018)
• – Soloist with Orchestra: NEC’s Baroque Chamber Orchestra; Vivaldi’s Concerto in G Minor for Two Cellos and Porpora’s Concerto in G Major for Cello and String Orchestra (2016)
• – Soloist with Orchestra: NEC’s Baroque Chamber Orchestra; Leonardo Leo’s Cello Concerto in D Minor (2015)

Composition Experience

• – Manhattan School of Music Composition-related “Independent Study” Course with Prof. Susan Botti (2023)
• – Manhattan School of Music “Composition for Non-Composition Majors” Course with Prof. Susan Botti (2021)
• – Boston Conservatory at Berklee “Contemporary Compositional Techniques” Course with Prof. John Murphree (2019)
• – Boston Conservatory at Berklee “Harmony & Counterpoint” Series 1-4 (2017-2019)
• – NEC Prep “Baroque Improvisation and Composition” Seminar with Aldo Abreu (2014-2015)
• – NEC Prep Composition Seminar with Rodney Lister (2013-2015)

Teaching Experience

• – “City Strings & Piano” (Boston, MA) – faculty member (August 2023-Pres.)
• – Taught 12 private lessons to young student via “Cello Pedagogy” class at Boston Conservatory – supervisor: Prof. Andrew Mark (Fall 2019-Spring 2020)
• – Lead sectionals and delivered private instruction to various cello students in the Somerville High School Orchestra and occasionally contributed as section mentor/leader to various cellists in East Somerville Neighborhood School’s chapter of “El Sistema” Young Musicians’ Orchestra Program (2013-2016)