Mary Frances DiBartolo, Cellist
Dr. Mary Frances DiBartolo is assistant principal cellist of the Arizona Opera Orchestra, section cellist of the West Valley Symphony, and Instructor of Cello, Chamber Music, and Cello Ensemble at Paradise Valley Community College. DiBartolo is an avid recitalist and chamber musician, continuo player, recording studio artist, and regular contracted musician with the Tucson symphony. DiBartolo is also a highly sought after private studio teacher, conference presenter, adjudicator, and clinician.
DiBartolo has performed in many notable national and international festivals including the Spoleto Italy/USA Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Mainly Mozart Festival, Animas Festival, Red Rocks Festival, Arizona Opera Wagner Ring Cycle Festival, and the Lancaster USA Festival. DiBartolo's orchestral career spans thirty- five years. DiBartolo was an inaugural Fellow of Michael Tilson Thomas's renowned New World Symphony, and has performed with the Sarasota Opera Orchestra, the Cincinnati Ballet & Chamber Orchestras, Seattle's Northwest Chamber & Ballet Orchestras, and the Tucson Ballet Orchestra. Her vast symphonic experience includes performances with the orchestras of Flagstaff, Phoenix, Tucson, Fort
Wayne, Dayton, Naples, Las Vegas, West Virginia, Phoenix, Tucson, Omaha, Lincoln, Charleston, and Columbus. DiBartolo has held several American Federation of Musician orchestra positions, won through national auditions.
A faculty artist at the Orfeo and Schlern International Music Festivals/Italy, and at the InterHarmony International Music Festival in the Berkshires, DiBartolo taught, performed, and coached chamber music. Recognized as an outstanding performer, DiBartolo was formerly cellist with the Arion Consort (resident ensemble at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and quarter-finalists in the Concert Artist Guild Competition), an ensemble that championed music from the Renaissance to newly commissioned works. DiBartolo also performed as cellist with the St. Alban String Quartet for five years, a quartet specializing in the music of the Second Viennese School, evidenced by favorable reviews in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Barcelona’s El Noticiero following tours of Germany, Spain, and Italy.
DiBartolo is a frequently requested continuo player, and has collaborated with the St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church Choir and Chamber Orchestra, the Paradise Valley United Methodist Church Chorale & Paradise Singers, the Scottsdale Choral Artists, the Phoenix Bach Choir, the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, the Mount St. Mary’s Seminary/Athenaeum of Ohio Orchestras, the St. James Church Concert Series of Seattle, and the First Plymouth Congregational Church Abendmusik Series, Lincoln, NE.
Adept at many styles and genres, DiBartolo can be heard on New Age Artist Chris Spheeris’ CD “Dancing with the Muse,” trumpeter and vocalist Chuck Curry’s CD “Late Bloom,” and can be seen performing in the John Tesh/PBS “One World” video filmed, in part, in Monument Valley, Utah.
DiBartolo is an in-demand educator, and from 1993-2010, was on faculty at Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ) as Senior Lecturer of Cello and Chamber Music, and Coordinator of Chamber and Event Music for the School of Music. DiBartolo is a frequent presenter at conferences, and seasoned adjudicator, clinician, and sectionals coach. She has presented at the National ASTA Conferences and AMEA, and is a featured clinician at the ASTA Tucson Cello Congress, and the ASTA Cellobration in Phoenix. Throughout DiBartolo’s Arizona career, she has been affiliated with the Phoenix greater-metropolitan area youth
symphonies, the Arizona Regionals/All-State Orchestra auditions, the Phoenix Youth
Symphony and ASTA Solo Competitions, and the Arizona Musicfest Young
Musicians Instrumentalist Competition (solo and chamber music).
Dr. DiBartolo holds degrees from the University of Arizona (DMA), The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music: CCM (MM), and, following studies at Northwestern University, the University of Iowa (BM).
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