Megan Carlier is 2nd Place Winner of the 2011 Appalachian Classical Music Association’s Young Artists Masters Event
Megan Elizabeth Carlier (14), Cello – Blacksburg, VA
Megan Carlier started playing the cello at age 3 and has continued her studies with various teachers for the past 11 years. Carlier studies cello as well as chamber music with Benjamin Wyatt and music theory with Barbara Mackin at the Renaissance Music Academy (RMA). Since 2010, she has been Principal Cellist of the RMA Chamber Orchestra.
In 2008, Carlier was invited to play for cellist Zuill Bailey in a master class co-sponsored by RMA and Virginia Tech. That same year she attended the National Cello Institute under the direction of Rick Mooney (CA). The following year, she performed in concert at Virginia Tech’s Viva VA International Music Festival in Blacksburg, VA.
During summers of 2009 to 2011, Megan participated in the Credo Chamber Music Festival at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In 2009, she performed at Cleveland’s Severance Hall as member of the Credo Festival Orchestra. In February 2011, she went on tour as member of a joint RMA-Hong Kong/Macao Youth Orchestra which concluded with a performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Megan performed in various chamber ensembles at the Ameropa Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic this past summer. She is grateful for the chamber music coaching she has received throughout the years from David Ehrlich, Teresa Ehrlich, Stephen Clapp, Peter Slowik, Marilyn McDonald, Anne Martindale Williams, Michael Davis, Sheila Browne, and Kangwon Kim. She is also honored to have received lessons with cellists including Hans Jorgen Jensen, Bryan Dumm, Anne Martindale Williams, Marc Johnson, Nicole Johnson, Steuart Pincombe, Roy Harran, Benjamin Noyes and Carey Cheney. She is also the 3rd Place Winner of the 2010 Renaissance Music Academy Senior Concerto Competition (Blacksburg, VA).
In her free time, Megan enjoys reading books and participating in her church and youth group activities. She performs frequently as both chamber musician and soloist for various non-profit and voluntary organizations, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and homebound patients. Megan is particularly grateful for the opportunity she had to travel with a short-term missions team to South Africa in summer 2011 to give music lessons to orphans at the Barcelona Children Center.
November 26, 2011