Tavi Ungerleider

Tavi Ungerleider began playing music with his mother, who was a piano teacher, and has always felt passionately about the art. He studied cello with Ronald Feldman in Boston and at the Juilliard School with Joel Krosnick in a exchange program with Columbia University. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and a Master in Music from Juilliard. Mindful of the musical innovations of our time, he has performed with Béla Fleck and Leonard Slatkin, and has appeared in the TV series Masterclass featuring Michael Tilson Thomas.

He has been mentored by many of the leading musicians of our time, including Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, András Schiff, Steven Isserlis, David Geringas, Gary Hoffman, Laurence Lesser, and Paul Katz.

Ungerleider has been the recipient of top prizes from the Serge & Olga Koussevitzky Young Artist Awards and the National Federation of Music Clubs. He was awarded a grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund. He is also a previous winner of the Crescendo International Music Competition and from competitions hosted by the Harvard Musical Association, and the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition of the Chamber Music Foundation of New England.

Ungerleider has performed across the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. He has performed concerti with the Berkshire Symphony, Bergen Symphony, Brevard Sinfonia, Thayer Symphony, and the New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic, among others.

Ungerleider has performed in collaboration with many of the great innovators in music today, including Grammy Award winner Bela Fleck. He collaborated with Michael Tilson Thomas for a television series entitled "YoungArts MasterClass”. He has appeared at the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, and has performed at the Aspen Festival, Brevard Festival, Chautauqua Festival, Kneisel Hall, Ravinia's Steans Institute, and Music@Menlo.

Committed to expanding traditional boundaries, Ungerleider has been a member of "Break of Reality", a world-renowned 3cello+drummer band. While rooted in classical music, the band travels across the spectrum from classical to pop, rock, and other genres of music.

In 2018 Ungerleider joined the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal as cello, 1st assistant. He performs on a cello by Raffaele & Antonio Gagliano, ca. 1830, provided graciously by the conpany CANIMEX INC, from Drummondville (Quebec) Canada.

2014-2016, he studied at Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson, funded by the Dieter and Elisabeth Feddersen Scholarship.