Described as an "artist of refined taste and musicianship" (The Strad Magazine), and a "superior instrumentalist" (Harris Goldsmith, New York Concert Review), Louise Dubin’s solo performances take her throughout the US and Europe.  Recent appearances include recitals in South Carolina and North Carolina in February 2024 and February 2025; the 2023 premiere performance of Roger Stubblefield’s cello concerto “Divertissement” in New York; recitals in Paris at Reid Hall, the American Cathedral, Salle Gaveau and CRR; featured performer at the Festival de Violoncelle de Beauvais; as well as in New York City at Bargemusic, Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter auditorium, Columbia’s Maison Française, and Trinity Church.  Other festival appearances include Caramoor, Savannah Music Festival, Norfolk, Tanglewood, and Garth Newel, with Daniel Hope, Philippe Muller, Andrew Armstrong, Stephanie Chase, the Artaria String Quartet, the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, and many others. As the cellist on Stefon Harris’ African Tarantella album (Blue Note Records, 2006), she performed in Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Hall, and the Jazz Standard.  She has also toured the US as cellist of the Core Ensemble (with actor, percussionist and pianist).

Louise has served as Principal Cellist of Auckland Philharmonia, guest Solo Cellist of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and Principal Cellist of the Charleston Symphony, where her concerto with that orchestra was lauded as "virtuosic...and soothing, calming the soul" (Charleston Post and Courier). Her current orchestral work is closer to home, and includes serving as first cellist of Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular Orchestra, and playing with Baltimore Symphony, New Jersey Symphony and other ensembles.  She was the solo cellist of Paramour on Broadway (Cirque de Soleil), Gun and Powder, Harry Connick Jr.'s Cole Porter on Broadway, and plays/has played on many other Broadway shows including: Aladdin (2022-present), Sunset Boulevard (2025), Water for Elephants, Camelot, New York New York,  Kiss Me Kate, My Fair Lady, Anastasia, Miss Saigon, Finding Neverland, Gigi, On the Town, Matilda, Chaplin, Ragtime, Hairspray, and The Scarlet Pimpernel.  

Louise has been interviewed on radio shows including Classical Tracks (APM syndicate), Classical Classroom (NPR), WKCR-FM, as well as on the CelloSherpa podcast. Her performances of Franchomme and solo Bach have also been featured on APM’s Performance Today broadcasts, Radio France, and New Zealand Radio.

In September 2025 Bridge Records released her second album, Passages, featuring more world premiere recordings of French compositions ranging from Franchomme’s era up to the present day. The Classical Music Sentinel calls Passages “warmly expressive, with …stylistic versatility and vibrant coloration. From the gravity of the Chopin, to the grace of the Franchomme, to the aggressive nature of the final Caprice by Philippe Hersant, her expressive details do the music full justice.” Her album The Franchomme Project (Delos, 2015), which included 10 world premiere recordings of compositions by Auguste Franchomme, has been acclaimed in publications in Canada, France, the UK, and the US, where Strings Magazine calls it a "rare musical treat" that "unfolds with radiant energy." The album was chosen by San Francisco’s KDFC-FM as a "Favorite of 2015," and by Naxos as a "Best 2015 Release from Independent Labels." Her research on Auguste Franchomme has led to other projects, including a commission from Dover Publications to compile and introduce Selected Works for Cello and Piano by Auguste Franchomme (May 2017). Forthcoming publications include an article for the NIFC in Warsaw and her transcriptions of some of Franchomme’s unpublished manuscripts.

She earned her BA in English Literature from Columbia University, where she wrote many poems and hosted a radio show on WKCR, while studying the cello at Juilliard with Aldo Parisot. As a graduate student, she was awarded fellowships at Tanglewood and Norfolk, and also studied at Prussia Cove and Aldeburgh with Steven Isserlis, Ralph Kirshbaum and William Pleeth. In 2011 she earned a doctoral degree from Indiana University, where she was awarded the Eva Janzer scholarship to study with Janos Starker.

Since then, she’s taught cello masterclasses at many universities including UNC Chapel Hill, Sam Houston State, Grand Valley State, University of Connecticut, University of Virginia, Wichita State, North Greenville University, as well as Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, and has presented lectures about her research at New York University, Arizona State University, and Indiana University, among others. She has taught cello and chamber music at Auckland University and Julliard Pre‐College, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Greenwich House School of Music in New York City, Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, and currently maintains a private teaching studio. Miramax hired her to prepare Allison Williams and Logan Browning to play cello in the movie The Perfection. Please send performance, teaching and lecturing inquiries via this form.

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