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Mizzou Music: Amazon Cello Choir and Eli Lara

Mingzhe Wang

Eli Lara is the new cello professor at the University of Missouri. She is also one-fourth of the string ensemble in residence in the School of Music's Esterhazy Quartet. Trevor Harris talked with Lara on a recent episode of Mizzou Music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfCCjXaGhh0

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New MU School of Music professor of cello Eli Lara was a guest on a recent episode of Mizzou Music. She discussed her background, works for cello that matter and her new role in the Esterhazy Quartet.

This program originally aired Wednesday, August 30, 2016.

New episodes of Mizzou Music air each Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. on Classical 90.5FM.

Trevor serves as KBIA’s weekday morning host for classical music. He has been involved with local radio since 1990, when he began volunteering as a music and news programmer at KOPN, Columbia's community radio station. Before joining KBIA, Trevor studied social work at Mizzou and earned a masters degree in geography at the University of Alabama. He has worked in community development and in urban and bicycle/pedestrian planning, and recently served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zambia with his wife, Lisa Groshong. An avid bicycle commuter and jazz fan, Trevor has cycled as far as Colorado and pawed through record bins in three continents.