Victor Sotelo, Cello

Victor Sotelo is a Chicago based cellist whose performances have taken him across the United States and abroad. He is a top prizewinner in numerous competitions including Protégé International and Alexander & Buono International Competitions. Mr. Sotelo made his professional debut in 2002 performing the Dvorak Concerto with the Louisville Orchestra. The following year, he was invited as a guest performer for the American Cello Congress as a result of being a finalist for the ASTA National Solo Competition. In 2010, he made his Carnegie Hall recital debut. Mr. Sotelo has had the privilege of closely collaborating in ensembles with eminent artists including Yo Yo Ma, Carter Brey, and Midori Goto at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany. He has been heard in string quartet radio broadcasts from the Rush Hour and Dame Myra Hess concert series for WFMT Chicago. His chamber discography includes an album of some previously unrecorded works entitled, “Folks and Fantasies: The Chamber Music of William Grant Still & Clifford Julstrom”, released in 2013. Additional chamber concert collaborations have included members of Chicago, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Colorado symphony orchestras.

Mr. Sotelo is a current member of South Bend Symphony and Chicago Arts Orchestra as well as a substitute member for Grant Park Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, and Chicago Sinfonietta. Additionally, he has performed with New World Symphony and was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He is a graduate of the Northwestern University Beinen School of Music, under the tutelage of Hans Jorgen Jensen. He has previously worked in masterclasses with Gary Hoffman, Miklós Perényi, Paul Katz, Aldo Parisot, Timothy Eddy, Joel Krosnick, and Ralph Kirshbaum.