I am a concert cellist, educator, and inventor with a strong commitment to collaborating with fellow artists in unique and boundary breaking new projects and mentoring the next generation of cellists. 

 

My Cello Mastery Program empowers cellists to achieve what they never dreamed was possible through immersive learning, shared goals, and in-depth problem-solving. All in a nurturing cello community with the concept  of Dreaming is Back!™ meaning that everything is possible with a dream and the ambition and determination to achieve your goals. Performing as a soloist, chamber musician, and composer, I developed methods of teaching that share and demystify performance and are successful evidence-based solutions for everyone. 

 

Pioneering new ways to perform on the cello, I created the TekPin™, a revolutionary new cello endpin that eliminates tension from playing, and invented the TekStand™, the world's first cello platform to premiere my own cello concerto  "Standing Tall" bring the standing cellist to the public. As a composer, I am proud to have premiered over 30 works by distinguished composers including Harbison, Schuller, and Kernis.

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As a member of Duo Cello e Basso, I have partnered with bassist Pascale Delache-Feldman to commission and premiere over 20 new works, performing across Europe and throughout the US. Our latest project includes concerts and recordings of the music of Astor Piazzolla and Carlos Gardel. Our arrangement of the Four Seasons on our new CD “Let’s Tango!” with pianist Victor Cayres was submitted for a Latin Grammy and was released in December 2023 on the Navona label.

 

I teach through my Cello Mastery Program and at Tufts University.  In the summer I teach at festivals including the Sarasota Music Festival, Trentino Music Festival Italy, International Cello and Heifetz Institutes and have given masterclasses at the Bienen School at Northwestern University, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Manhattan School, Peabody Conservatory, and abroad in Taiwan.