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A winner of Astral Artists’ 2007 National Auditions, The Philadelphia Inquirer has praised cellist Susan Babini’s “gorgeous, deep sound” and “liquid sense of phrasing.” Astral presented her Philadelphia recital debut and features her this season on its “Rising Stars” concert at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, in the Philadelphia Brahms Festival, and in a program of piano trios. Ms. Babini was presented by Artists International and the Violoncello Society of New York, and has appeared in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. She has performed as both guest principal cellist and soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and toured with the Mark Morris Dance Company. She also toured Central Asia as a member of the Phoenix String Quartet, under the auspices of Carnegie Hall and the U.S. Department of State, and taught throughout Panama as part of the Tres Americas Project. She has participated at the Marlboro and Tanglewood music festivals, Italy’s Spoleto Festival, and at the Yellow Barn, Delaware, and Kneisel Hall chamber music festivals. The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society recently presented her in “Musicians from Marlboro.” She also recently appeared at the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, and performed Brahms’s B Major Piano Trio and Schumann’s Piano Quartet at the Aspen Music Festival with Anne-Marie McDermott and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Susan Babini holds both a Bachelor and a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a graduate diploma from The Juilliard School, where she was assistant to Bonnie Hampton.