Boston Cello School was founded by musician and pedagogue Andreas Rothchild. Praised as "delightful and accomplished" by Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe, he has appeared frequently in such venues as Jordan Hall, the Goethe Institute, and live on WGBH radio. Mr. Rothchild’s live WGBH radio performances include the Roussel Trio for flute, viola and cello; the US premiere of the Weinberg Piano Quintet; the Ginastera Pampeana No. 2; and the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata. He has been a guest artist of the Boston Chamber Music Society, as well as a concerto soloist with the Lexington Sinfonietta. An avid proponent of new music, he has premiered works by David Horne, Florentine Mulsant, and Eric Sawyer. He has recorded on the Albany Records label.
Mr. Rothchild joined the faculty of the renowned Brookline Music School in July of 2024. He was a member of the faculty of the former Longy School of Music Preparatory Division in Cambridge, where he taught cello and coached chamber music for twelve years, and served as the Chair of the Young Performers Chamber Music Program. He has also been a faculty member of the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts at the Walnut Hill School, teaching private cello lessons and coaching chamber music. In addition, he has held adjunct teaching positions at both the Middlesex and Groton Schools. Perhaps most rewarding, he was the co-director, along with his Longy faculty colleague Ashima Scripp, of the Cellobration Festival for young cellists in Boston for ten years.
His students have won top prizes in numerous competitions, including Junior, Regional, and All-State auditions; the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (BYSO) Concerto Competition; the Wellesley Symphony Orchestra Competition; the New England Philharmonic Competition; the Brockton Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition; the Concord Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition; the Arlington Philharmonic Society Competition; the Waltham Philharmonic Concerto Competition; the Newton Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition; Brookline Music School Cello Competition; Longy School of Music Concerto Competition; the Pro Arte Concerto Competition; the Chamber Music Foundation of New England; the Williams Chorale Bacardi Fallon Performing Arts Competition; the Boston University Academy Concerto Competition; and the Belmont Music Department Solo Competition.
His students have also held principal or assistant principal cello positions in the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division’s YPO, YSO, YRO, JRO, STO and summer NEC Festival Youth Orchestras as well as the Lexington Honors Orchestra. He has also taught privately college-level students from such institutions as Juilliard, Harvard, Yale, and MIT. He has been invited on many occasions to judge several competitions, including concerto competitions at Harvard College, the Longy School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. His students have gone on to attend Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Brown, Stonybrook, the Manhattan School of Music, The New England Conservatory, The San Francisco Conservatory, the Boston Conservatory and many others.
Mr. Rothchild holds the bachelor of arts degree with high honors (magna cum laude) in English & American Language and Literature from Harvard College, where he was a recipient of the Harvard College Scholarship for academic achievement of high distinction, the David McCord Prize for musical excellence, the Dudley House Masters Award for dedicated and faithful service to the house, and the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarship.
