“Mr. Spindel elicited sharply defined, urgent playing that illuminated every mood of this haunting score.”
— The New York Times
“Has demonstrated a knack for inventive programming.”
— Timeout NY
Eli Spindel is a violinist and conductor, and the founder of the String Orchestra of Brooklyn with whom he has performed around New York City including at Bargemusic, Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette, Green-Wood Cemetery, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Museum of Modern Art, and at the opening of the new Whitney Music of American Art in 2015.
He teaches conducting and violin privately and is a teaching artist at PS 321 and PS 230 through the Brooklyn Conservatory’s Music Partners program. He was previously a teaching artist for the Brooklyn Philharmonic.
He studied violin with Clayton Hoener, Betty-Jean Hagen, and Liz Chang, and conducting with Eduardo Navega and Harold Farbermann. An alumnus of Vassar College, he also studied at the Bard Conducting Institute, the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, and the preparatory divisions of the Longy School and the New England Conservatory.
In his former life as an editor and writer he was the Managing Editor of Publications at the International Center of Photography and also worked at the PEN America Journal, Umbrage Books, and MSN News.
He lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
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