Cellist Linda Mehrabian

Cellist Linda Mehrabian began her professional career at the age of sixteen as the youngest member of the San Diego Symphony, remaining with that orchestra for six years. Her distinguished mentors included Joseph Di Tullio, Milos Sadlo, Edgar Lustgarten, and Daniel Rothmuller. For fourteen years, Linda was an active Los Angeles studio musician, working on numerous movie scores and record albums, while also pursuing solo and chamber music performances and work with the Glendale Symphony. Linda has toured and soloed with many celebrities including Burt Bachrach and Dinah Shore, and has performed on recordings and live performances for Van Cliburn, Sammy Davis Jr., Aretha Franklin, Olivia Newton John, Liberace, Henry Mancini, Bette Midler, Luciano Pavarotti, Smokey Robinson, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, John Williams, and many others. After moving to Monterey in 1989, Linda began participating in the Mozart in Monterey Festival and has served as a regularly performing member of the Monterey County Symphony Orchestra since 1992.