Bree Ahern, cello

Currently based in Dallas-Fort Worth, cellist Bree Ahern is a versatile performing artist committed to building community through performing, teaching, and collaborating across art forms. A passionate solo and chamber musician, she has dedicated herself to presenting innovative programs to diverse audiences and using music to serve and enrich her community. She currently performs with Kinetic Ensemble, a Houston-based conductor-less chamber orchestra committed to performing diverse, underrepresented, and newly composed classical music. Keen on interdisciplinary collaborations, she has worked with dancers, artists, and scientists in projects with Musiqa, Loop38, and Da Camera of Houston, among others. In DFW, she performs regularly with the Fort Worth Symphony and has appeared with Opus Nova, Spectrum Chamber Music Society, and Broadway at Bass Hall. Her festival appearances include the Louis Moreau Institute for Contemporary Music, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Round Top Festival Institute, Hot Springs Music Festival, and Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, with select performances featured on WQXR and New Music USA. She is a graduate of Rice University, where she studied as a Brown Foundation Fellow under Norman Fischer on a full scholarship.

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