Mary Beadell-DiBartolo
Cello/Chamber Music/Strings Coordinator
Mary.Beadell@NAU.EDU
(928) 523-3646
Building 37A, Room 123
Mary Beadell-DiBartolo joined the faculty of Northern Arizona University in 1993 where she teaches cello and chamber music, and is coordinator of chamber and event music for the School of Music. Mary Beadell-DiBartolo is principal of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, and assistant principal of the Arizona Opera Orchestra. Prior to this, she was an inaugural member of the New World Symphony, (Michael Tilson Thomas, artistic director), the Sarasota Opera Orchestra, the Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra, and has almost thirty years experience as a member of various regional/union orchestras.
Dr. Beadell-DiBartolo’s summer festivals include the Spoleto Italy/USA Opera, the Grand Teton, Mainly Mozart, Lancaster USA Festivals, and the Arizona Opera production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Dr. Beadell-DiBartolo is an avid continuo player, having performed with many choral organizations including the Phoenix Bach Choir, the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, the St. James Church Concert Series of Seattle, and the Abendmusik Series – First Plymouth Congregational Church – Lincoln, NE. As a freelance musician, Beadell-DiBartolo can be heard on the CD Dances with the Muse with New Age artist Chris Spheris. She also appears on the PBS/John Tesh video One World (featuring a segment on Monument Valley) which aired on National Public Television in March, 1999.
Dr. Beadell-DiBartolo is an active clinician and adjudicator. She has presented at the Arizona Music Educators Conference, and given lecture recitals at Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona. Dr. Beadell-DiBartolo has appeared as a guest clinician and recruiter at numerous schools throughout the region. She has regularly served as a regional, solo, ensemble, and all-state judge, and is on the faculty of the Northern Arizona University Summer Music Camp where she teaches cello and chamber music, and leads masterclasses and orchestra sectionals. Dr. Beadell-DiBartolo performed and taught at the Schlern International Music Festival in the summer of 2007. This summer she, along with her husband Joel DiBartolo, will join the faculty of the Interharmony International Summer Music Festival in The Berkshires and Germany (interharmony.com).
Mary Beadell-DiBartolo was a student of Peter Wiley (Guarneri Quartet/student of David Soyer), Zara Nelsova (concert cellist), John Sharp (principal cellist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Dudley Powers (former principal cellist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Arkady Orlovsky (student of Mstislav Rostropovich/principal cellist Indianapolis Symphony), Charles Wendt (student of Luigi Silva), Nancy Green, (concert cellist), and Carol Work. She studied orchestral excerpts with members of the Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Metropolitan Orchestras, and has coached chamber music with the LaSalle, Stradivari, and American String Quartets, the Quartetto Italiano, Laurence Lesser, and Vartan Manoogian. After studies at Northwestern University, Dr. Beadell-DiBartolo holds a BM in cello performance (University of Iowa), a MM in cello performance (University of Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music), and a DMA (The University of Arizona).