b.1988...

Meet CELLO. From its inception in 1988 playing classical music in the jazz clubs of New York City to its current international career premiering new works alongside both popular and classical repertoire in Universities and concert halls alike, CELLO has long been recognized as one of the most innovative ensembles on the concert music scene. This ensemble of four classically trained women celebrates the unequaled sound of four cellos through works based in jazz, hip hop beats and world and contemporary classical musics. Composers that have written for CELLO include jazz great Ron Carter, Peter Schickele, Reza Vali of Iran, Venezuelan Paul Desenne, French ethnomusicologist Jean Louis Florentz and 2005 Guggenheim Fellow Andrew Waggoner.

CELLO has captivated audiences across this country, in Europe and Asia with its unpredictable, dynamic, and broadly appealing performances. The group has performed on Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series as well as at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Kennedy Center in Washington. They have been presented by the Van Cliburn Foundation, performed as featured Congress Artists at the Sixth American Cello Congress and have toured with Community Concerts across the U.S.

In 1995 CELLO was invited by the Rencontres Internationales d'Ensembles de Violoncelles in Beauvais, France for a series of European debut performances and years later returned to Beauvais to open the 2001 festival. In 2002 CELLO traveled to Taiwan performing a 10-concert tour that included an appearance at the National Theater in Taipei.

CELLO has recorded two albums: CELLO, which appeared on the ProArte label in 1990 and Subliminal Blues and Greens, which was released in 1996 by d'Note Classics. The group is also featured on Sony Classical's Illumination and has appeared on the Fox Television Network, NPR's Performance Today, Boston's WGBH and has been featured in such magazines as Strad and Wired.

CELLO is based in New York City.