Cello

Active in the Bay Area and beyond, cellist Stephen Harrison is co-Artistic Director of the Ives Collective (formerly known as the Ive and Stanford String Quartets), Senior Lecturer of Cello and Chamber Music at Stanford University, and a core member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Former principal cellist of the Chamber Symphony of San Francisco, the Opera Company of Boston, and the New England Chamber Orchestra, Harrison has performed on National Public Radio, the BBC, and on both Germany State Radio and the Netherlands Stat Radio. With the Ives / Stanford Quartets and SFCMP, Stephen has toured internationally and recorded on the Music and Arts, Laurel, Delos, CRI, New Albion, and Newport Classics labels. He has been on the faculties of the Pacific Music Festival, the Rocky Ridge Music Center, and the Schlern and Orfeo International Music Festivals. As principal cellist of the Mendocino Music Festival, he also coaches Mendocino’s Emerging Artists. He has been a frequent coach at the SoCal Chamber Music Workshop and performs annually at the Telluride Chamber Music Festival. He earned his degrees at Oberlin College and Boston University, where he received the Award for Distinction in Graduate Performance.