Laura Metcalf

Cellist Laura Metcalf, renowned worldwide as a passionate solo and chamber musician and acclaimed for her “brilliant” playing (Gramophone Magazine) has performed throughout the US and on six continents, and recorded extensively for the Grammy-winning label Sono Luminus, reaching #3 on the Billboard Classical Charts and surpassing 4 million streams on Spotify. A “cellist whose passion for music is as evident as her artistry and talent” (I care if you listen), she tours with her duo Boyd Meets Girl (with whom she recently gave the world premiere of a cello-guitar double concerto by Clarice Assad with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra) and string quartet The Overlook, as well as collaborates regularly with four-time Grammy winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird (with whom she has appeared as chamber soloist in contemporary concerti with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony and others). She has toured extensively worldwide with the popular ensembles Break of Reality and Sybarite5, and has worked with The Knights, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and ETHEL. She has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Madison Square Garden and the Caramoor, Ravinia, Moab, Festival Napa Valley, Aspen and Newport Classical festivals, among countless others. Laura is also a curator and artistic director, having co-founded the concert series GatherNYC, as well as guest curating for the Museum of Arts and Design, Fotografiska, The Frick Collection, and Wave Hill. As an educator, she has given workshops, masterclasses and lectures at Juilliard, Curtis, New England Conservatory and many other conservatories, as well as played for tens of thousands of school-aged children across the globe from Dehra Dun, India to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and is on the prestigious teaching roster for the online platform ToneBase Cello.