Biography

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Described as "a superior instrumentalist and intelligent, tasteful musician" by the New York Concert Review, cellist Louise Dubin is an active recitalist throughout the US. A fellow at both Tanglewood and Norfolk Festivals, she has more recently collaborated in chamber music concerts with such artists as Reiko Uchida, Hiroko Sasaki, Daniel Hope, Anne Drummond, and Andrew Armstrong at venues including the Savannah Festival, Spoleto Festival, Caramoor, and Kiawah. As the cellist on Stefon Harris' album "African Tarantella," she has performed with his nonet in venues including Zankel Hall in New York and Symphony Hall in Chicago. She has served as Principal Cellist of the Charleston Symphony, the Auckland Philharmonia, the Riverside Symphonia, and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and currently plays with the cello sections of the Baltimore and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras, the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra, and on Broadway. In July 2010, she travelled to France on two doctoral research grants from Indiana University to research Auguste Franchomme, and completed the first dissertation ever written about Franchomme in December 2011. Ms. Dubin is touring the US with concerts featuring many unknown Franchomme compositions, including cello quartets she transcribed from his unpublished manuscripts. She is making the world premiere recording of these works for the Eroica Classical Label, to be released in 2012, with a concurrent publication of her manuscript transcriptions. She performs on a cello made by Vincenzo Postiglione of Naples.

As soloist, her performance with the Charleston Symphony was hailed as "virtuoso, musical and understated" (Charleston Post and Courier), and The Charleston City Paper praised Ms. Dubin for "...beguiling our ears and touching our hearts with sonorous and sensitive playing." Her recent recital at BargeMusic, New York City also received critical acclaim from Harris Goldsmith: "artistically refined, affectionately shaped performances...her tone was smooth and compact, intonation true-to-the-mark, and her phrasing was airborne and veering to lyrical understatement...a superior instrumentalist and intelligent, tasteful musician. She made a very fine impression." (New York Concert Review)

Ms. Dubin earned her bachelor's degree in English from Columbia College while studying the cello at Juilliard with Aldo Parisot. She has also studied with Tim Eddy, Ralph Kirshbaum, Steven Isserlis, and Helga Winold. Her most recent cello studies have been with Janos Starker at Indiana University, where she received the Eva Janzer scholarship and earned the Doctoral Degree in Music in December 2011.

Ms. Dubin's recent teaching activities include being a chamber music tutor at the University of Auckland and Juilliard's Pre-College Division and conducting cello masterclasses at Grand Valley State University, the University of Virginia, the University of Connecticut, and Wichita State University. She is on the faculty of the Greenwich House Music School in Manhattan. Teaching inquiries are welcome and can be sent via this link or by emailing Louise at: