Antonio Lysy, Cellist - Yarlung Artists

Cellist Antonio Lysy helped put Yarlung on the map by winning our first GRAMMY Award and performing and recording some of Yarlung’s most successful albums. This might not have been! Antonio grew up a big soccer fan but his father Alberto Lysy insisted he pursue music instead. Alberto was a world-renowned Argentine violinist and conductor who in addition to pursuing his international career as a soloist, established Camerata Bariloche in 1967 and then co-founded and ran the Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland for thirty years.

As a child, Antonio Lysy played in the Menuhin School Orchestra, then the Camerata Lysy in conjunction with the International Menuhin Music Academy. Camerata Lysy toured the world and helped students learn in the most direct way possible, under the pressures of live performance in public.

Antonio Lysy has performed with The Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras of London, Camerata Academica of Salzburg, Zurich Tonhalle, the Zagreb Soloists, Orchestra di Padova e il Veneto, Israel Sinfonietta, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Les Violions du Roi.

Antonio became music director of the annual Incontri in Terra di SienaChamber Music Festival in Italy in 1989. The festival celebrated its 30^thanniversary in 2018.

Antonio chaired the Strings Department at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA when composer David Lefkowitz introduced us to Antonio. Antonio had joined the faculty at UCLA in 2003, and continues as professor of cello. Antonio serves as an unofficial advisor to Yarlung in many capacities. Yarlung is grateful for his generosity and excellent advice.