Cellist Seth Russell performs internationally as a chamber musician, soloist, and orchestral player. He was recently awarded a top prize in the 2017 New York International Artists Competition, and will perform in Carnegie Hall for the Winners Concert in September. In 2015-16 he served as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Cello and cellist of the Ceruti Quartet at University of Memphis in Tennessee. In January 2016 he performed with clarinetist Jon Manasse and pianist Natasha Paremski for Concerts International.

Seth is passionate about chamber music and creating new ways to connect with audiences. He helped form the Oceanus Quartet, which received a New England Conservatory Entrepreneurial grant for an educational/performance tour of Taiwan in May-June, 2015. Seth was a founding member of Phoenix, a chamber orchestra in Boston that creates unique concert experiences through programming, venue, and audience engagement. In Boston he was also involved with Groupmuse, an online platform for organizing classical music house concerts. Seth has been a member of Greenville Symphony Orchestra and Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra in SC, and Discovery Ensemble in Boston, MA. He has been invited to numerous summer music festivals, including Interlochen Summer Arts Camp as a String Quartet Fellow, Taos School of Music, and the Colorado College and Sarasota Summer Music festivals.

A native of Greenville, SC, Seth holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with David Ying. He received a Master’s degree in Cello Performance from New England Conservatory where he studied with Paul Katz. Seth has also studied with Lluis Claret, Gary Hoffman, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Pieter Wispelwey, and worked with the Ying, Borromeo, Brentano, and Shanghai Quartets. In Fall 2017 he will begin the Doctorate of Musical Arts program in Cello Performance at University of Texas at Austin with Bion Tsang.

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Solo cello works like Bach, Sollima, Cassado, and more! Chamber works like the quartets of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Britten, Shostakovich, and many others.