Andrew Block, Violoncello

Andrew Block has been a member of the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra since 1999, and has served as principal cellist for the past five seasons.  During the 2002 concert season, he performed Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Cellos with Mary Burton, ECCO's founding principal cellist.  He grew up in a musical family and began his violin and cello studies with his father, a music teacher.  He continued studying cello with Janet Anthony at the Lawrence Conservatory in Appleton, and with Paul Kosower at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he was a member of both the Chamber and Symphony orchestras.  He has performed with numerous other ensembles and musical groups around Wisconsin and MInnesota.  Andrew is a 1993 graduate of the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Art Department and holds a BFA in Design.  He is curretnly the Director of Design at the Twin Cities campus of Saint Mary's Univeristy of Minnesota, and resides in Minneapolis with his wife Alison adn their two cats.