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Currently Professor of Cello at the University of North Texas, Eugene Osadchy is a principal cellist with the Plano Symphony and the Dallas Chamber Orchestra. He is also the Artistic Advisor of the Vetta Chamber Music Series in Vancouver, Canada and the Artistic Advisor of the Blue Candlelight Music Series in Dallas.

Mr. Osadchy is hailed as having "the most refined and balanced string playing" by the New York Times and has been called "a paragon of Russian élan" by the Vancouver Sun. Newsdaywrites he is "a soloist with a clearly defined musical personality" and is noted for his "extraordinary playing" by the Dallas Morning News. "Mr. Osadchy possesses a very rich tone and is steeped in the great classical tradition. It is good to know that there are ardent keepers of the flame." The New York Sun. To read more reviews, 
click here
 or on "Reviews" above.

Born in Kiev to a family of professional musicians, Mr. Osadchy started his musical education at the age of five on the piano and a year later on the cello. After graduating from The Special Music School for Talented and Gifted Children where he was in the class of Professor Ilya Zaritsky, he continued his education at the Kiev State Conservatory of Music (now the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music), where he was in the class of Professor Maria Tchaikovskaya and graduated with honors. Mr. Osadchy became a Laureate of the Republic of Ukraine Cello Competition.

Eugene Osadchy regularly performs and gives master classes throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. He has performed at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center, and the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. In addition, Mr. Osadchy makes frequent appearances at the Bargemusic series in New York, the Autumn Classic series in Anchorage, Chamber Music International in Dallas, Strings in the Mountains at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and at the International Niagara Music Festival in Canada.

Mr. Osadchy has also performed in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. He has participated in numerous chamber music series and festivals around the world including the Summit Music Festival in Purchase, NY, the Amsterdam and the Groningen International Festivals in Holland, the Stellenbosch International Music Festival in South Africa, the Vetta Chamber Music Series in Vancouver (where he formerly served as Artistic Director), Music at Blair Athol in Scotland, the Castel Franko di Veneto Festival in Italy, the Mozart Festival in Woodstock, Illinois, as well as Vancouver, Victoria, Banff, Seattle, Sitka, Durango, the Mozart Festival in Long Island, NY, and Maui Music Festivals.

As a soloist Eugene Osadchy has performed with the CBC Radio Orchestra (where he was also the former principal cellist), Vancouver Symphony, Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Woodstock Festival Orchestra, Dallas Asian Youth Orchestra, Curio Ensemble of Vancouver, Plano Symphony and the University of North Texas Symphony Orchestra.

Other musical credits of Mr. Osadchy include recordings with the CBC Radio Orchestra which have received numerous Juno awards - the Canadian equivalent of the Grammies. He has composed two film scores and has several CDs on the Melodia label featuring his own compositions and arrangements. Mr. Osadchy has more then 60 arrangements for various cello ensembles. Click
here to download and view a .pdf file of a list of these arrangements.

For the past ten years, Mr. Osadchy has presented his annual Summer Cello Clinic. For more information and a registration form for the upcoming 2010 Summer Cello Clinic,
click here or on "Cello Clinic" above.
Professor of Cello at the University of North Texas, Eugene Osadchy is a principal cellist with the Plano Symphony and the Dallas Chamber Orchestra. He is also the Artistic Advisor of the Vetta Chamber Music Series in Vancouver, Canada and the Artistic Advisor of the Blue Candlelight Music Series in Dallas.

Mr. Osadchy is hailed as having "the most refined and balanced string playing" by the New York Times and has been called "a paragon of Russian élan" by the Vancouver Sun. Newsdaywrites he is "a soloist with a clearly defined musical personality" and is noted for his "extraordinary playing" by the Dallas Morning News. "Mr. Osadchy possesses a very rich tone and is steeped in the great classical tradition. It is good to know that there are ardent keepers of the flame." The New York Sun. To read more reviews, 
click here or on "Reviews" above.

Born in Kiev to a family of professional musicians, Mr. Osadchy started his musical education at the age of five on the piano and a year later on the cello. After graduating from The Special Music School for Talented and Gifted Children where he was in the class of Professor Ilya Zaritsky, he continued his education at the Kiev State Conservatory of Music (now the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music), where he was in the class of Professor Maria Tchaikovskaya and graduated with honors. Mr. Osadchy became a Laureate of the Republic of Ukraine Cello Competition.

Eugene Osadchy regularly performs and gives master classes throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. He has performed at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center, and the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. In addition, Mr. Osadchy makes frequent appearances at the Bargemusic series in New York, the Autumn Classic series in Anchorage, Chamber Music International in


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