Principal cellist for the California Bach Society, the Dayton Bach Society, the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, and the Benevolent Order for Music of the Baroque, Elisabeth Reed also performs frequently on both cello and viola da gamba with the Philarmonia and Pacific Baroque orchestras, Musica Angelica, and the chamber ensemble El Mundo. She has played at the Boston, Berkeley, Bloomington early music festivals, and Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, and can be heard on the Virgin Classics and Focus recording labels. A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Oberlin Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, and Indiana University's Early Music Institute, she teaches at the University of California at Berkeley and at the San Francisco Community Music School. She was the founding director of the Viols for Youth program in conjunction with the Seattle Early Music Guild and the Viola da Gamba Society of the Pacific Northwest. She is also a Guild Certified Practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method of Awareness Through Movement with a particular interest in the issues facing musicians and performers. In her spare time she writes articles for Scientific American.

REVIEWS OF ELISABETH REED:
"And more than anyone else, Elisabeth Reed provided the authentic baroque sound with her delicately nuanced and powerful playing of the baroque cello and viola da gamba" The Santa Barbara Independent
"To have a player here [in Seattle] of Reed's caliber can only be a plus." Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Wonderful cello playing" Wiesbadener Kurier
"Charming and powerful" Offenbach Post
"Intense, graceful, suffused with heat and vigor" Bloomington Herald-Times

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