Bio

Cellist Rose Bellini is an enthusiastic performer of a wide variety of music including classical, amplified, improvisational, crossover, and experimental. She regularly performs with contemporary music ensembles, modern dance companies, bands, and chamber and orchestral groups around New York City and across North America. Rose can be heard with her own ensemble REDSHIFT, and has appeared with the FLUX Quartet, East Village Opera Company, Phoenix Ensemble, Ensemble Pamplemousse, TACTUS, Zero Gravity, Astoria Symphony, and in venues from Monkeytown to Symphony Space to Carnegie Hall. Rose frequently commissions and premieres new works, and collaborates with established and emerging composers including from around the world.

Her primary teachers have included Janos Starker and Emilio Colón, under whom she received her Doctor of Music Degree at Indiana University. Her dissertation research resulted in a new critical edition of the cello concertos of Jean-Baptiste-Aimé Janson (1742-1803), based on recently recovered manuscripts. By day, Rose is Assistant Director of Development for Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and is on the board of the Switchboard Music Festival in San Francisco.