Violist CYNTHIA PHELPS's versatile career includes appearances as chamber musician, soloist, and Principal Violist of the New York Philharmonic, with which she regularly appears as soloist on major stages across the globe, performing an extensive repertoire including 2 specially commissioned works; a concerto by composer Julia Adolphe specially commissioned for her, which also premiered at the Eastern Music Festival, and a double concerto commissioned for her with Associate Principal violist Rebecca Young by composer Sofia Gubaidulina, among other repertoire. A familiar and much-admired figure at the world's foremost concert venues, she has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Minnesota Orchestra, Shanghai, San Diego, and Vermont Symphonies, Orquesta Sinfonica de Bilbao, and Rochester and Hong Kong Philharmonics. She has also been featured in several nationwide "Live from Lincoln Center" telecasts with the Philharmonic and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and on National Public Radio, Radio France, and RAI in Italy. She has given recitals in the world’s preeminent music capitals internationally, and is a founding member of "Les Amies," a flute-harp-viola trio, and the New York Philharmonic String Quartet. Her recording, Air, was nominated for a Grammy Award and her recordings can be heard on the Decca Gold, Marlboro Recording Society, Covenant, Nuova Era, Polyvideo, Virgin Classics, and Cala labels, and Harold in Italy with the New York Philharmonic.