Tessa Seymour was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at age 16, where she studied with Carter Brey, principal cello of the New York Philharmonic and Peter Wiley of the Guarneri Quartet. Ms. Seymour held the Jack Kent Cooke Fellowship at Curtis.
Ms. Seymour made her televised Carnegie Hall debut in 2007 and has performed as concerto soloist with numerous orchestras. Recent performances include a concert at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall, as well as the U.S. Premiere performance of Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s Suite for Solo Cello at Carnegie Hall. She has appeared many times at the Verbier Festival, Yellow Barn Music Festival, and the Festival del Sole. Season performances were heard on WHYY-TV, as well as WRTI radio, where she was a featured artist and host on their program, “Philadelphia Music Makers.” She has also podcasted with “The Glass Sho,” and Next Big Thing Radio’s “Conversations," appeared on Vice Munchies, PBS' "Live From Carnegie Hall," NPR radio, and performed at TEDTalks’ TedXPenn conference. Her debut solo album is set to be released this year. Ms. Seymour’s cello is the 1720 Carlo Giuseppe Testore “Camilla” of Milan.

Solo cello music (Bach, Kodaly, Ligeti, Cassadó)
Cello + piano (Beethoven, Debussy, Brahms, Britten sonatas)
Chamber Music