Bang on a Can

Cellist Wendy Sutter received degrees both from the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School where her principal teachers were David Soyer and Aldo Parisot. A native of Seattle, Washington, she made her solo debut with the Seattle Symphony at age sixteen. Awarded the first prize in the Juilliard cello competition, Ms. Sutter made her New York solo concerto debut at Avery Fisher Hall in the New York premiere of Kaddish for cello and orchestra by composer David Diamond and conducted by Gerard Schwarz.

An active soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Sutter has performed as a soloist or ensemble player in innumerous festivals and venues throughout the world including the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, the Lincoln Center Festival, the Ensemble Sospeso, the Seattle International Chamber Music festival, and New York's Music Today series. She has also participated in the summer festivals at Marlboro, Aspen, Tanglewood and Evian.

As an ensemble player, Ms. Sutter has toured throughout Europe and Asia with both the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and The Orpheus Chamber orchestra .From 1993-1998, she was a member of the White Oak Chamber Ensemble touring with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. As a soloist with this ensemble, she premiered Jerome Robbins' A Suite of Dances', an onstage duet for herself and Mikhail Baryshnikov at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. She continues to perform this work as a guest artist with the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center. Ms. Sutter presently serves on the faculty at Columbia University.