Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Orchestral Experience
Websites
Chamber Music
Commissions
Guest Faculty Artist And Clinician Positions
Competitions And Grants
Solo Performances
Timeline
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ANNE SUDA

ANNE SUDA

Sarasota,FL

Summary

Professional cellist with extensive experience in event planning. Has a history of meeting clients’ needs with consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Faculty

Sarasota Conservatory
Sarasota, FL
01.2023 - 01.2025
  • Teaching responsibilities:
  • Cello Instructor
  • Piano Instructor
  • Summer Music Camp Director
  • Chamber Music Coach
  • Recital organizer and performer

Owner and Founder

CellOm Strings
  • Book and plan hundreds of events
  • Host receptions
  • Hire and coordinate musicians
  • Organize and perform concerts

Performer

Elan Artists
  • Performer for high-profile events including George Lucas' wedding at his ranch in California

Communications Associate

Karen Ames Communications
San Francisco
  • Hosted press events
  • Wrote press releases and official bios for high-profile clients including Nicola Luisotti of San Francisco Opera, Gerard Schwarz of the Seattle Symphony, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, and numerous renowned opera singers
  • Made client press kits and wrote press content
  • Formed and maintained relationships with high-profile clients
  • Formed and maintained relationships with high-profile members of the press

Communications Associate

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Faculty

Suzuki Institute of Music
Sarasota, FL
  • Teaching responsibilities:
  • Cello Instructor
  • Piano Instructor
  • Summer Music Camp Director
  • Chamber Music Coach
  • Recital organizer and performer

Teaching Assistant

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
  • Teaching responsibilities:
  • Taught undergraduate music courses
  • Taught cello lessons
  • Coached graduate chamber music groups
  • Performed recitals

Teaching Assistant

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Faculty

San Francisco Community Music Center

Faculty

Northern California Music, Art, and Cultural Center

Private Studio
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sarasota

Education

Master of Music and Professional Studies Diploma -

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Bachelor of Music - double major in English

Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music

international studies in undergraduate program -

Sydney Conservatorium
Australia

Doctor of Musical Arts -

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Skills

  • Event planning
  • Concert organization
  • Performance coaching
  • Press relations
  • Client management
  • Team collaboration
  • Project coordination
  • Creative direction
  • Audience engagement

Affiliations

Sarasota Young Professionals Group

Orchestral Experience

  • UCLA Philharmonic, Principal Cellist
  • San Francisco Conservatory Symphony, Principal Cellist
  • Sydney Conservatorium, Principal Cellist, Opera and Chamber Orchestra
  • Vanderbilt Symphony, Principal Cellist
  • Berkeley Symphony
  • Fresno Philharmonic
  • Napa Valley Symphony
  • Merced Symphony
  • Juneau Symphony
  • University Orchestras in China, Principal Cellist serving as Artist-in-Residence
  • Opera Parallele, San Francisco
  • Magik
  • Magik Orchestra, San Francisco, Principal Cellist
  • Knox-Galesburg Symphony
  • Strings Con Brio, Principal Cellist

Chamber Music

  • Nonsemble 6, Founder, Touring the country performing a staged and memorized production of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, including a Kennedy Center debut, Lectured and performed at universities, Chosen by San Francisco's Noe Valley Chamber Music as Emerging Artists of the Year
  • Aleron Piano Trio, Founder, Touring the US, France, and Spain, performing as guest artists at festivals in cities including San Francisco, Paris, Dijon, Avignon, and Barcelona, Residencies at the Banff Center in Canada and at the Aldeburgh Music Festival in the UK, Coached extensively with members of the Juilliard String Quartet, Brentano String Quartet, Pavel Haas Quartet, Tokyo Quartet, and St. Lawrence Quartet, Served as teaching assistants to the Alexander Quartet and coached students at Berkeley's Crowden Music Center
  • Los Angeles Cello Quartet and Cellisimo Duo, Member, Touring the US, giving performances and outreach presentations
  • VEM String Quartet, UCLA's Quartet-in-Residence, Performed on the Dilijan Series at Colburn's Zipper Hall, 'Sundays Live' at LACMA's Bing Theater, the Brand Library Plaza Series, the Hammer Museum series 'In Real Life: Performance' at the Billy Wilder Theater, the L'Ermitage Foundation Concert Series at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel, at the Fowler Museum series, 'Fowler Out Loud,' and at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Schoenberg Concert Hall

Commissions

  • Melos Music Collective Commissions and others for Nonsemble 6
  • Solo Cello Commissions from composers Benjamin May, Shahab Paranj, and Dale Trumbore
  • Piano Trio, Flute/Cello and Violin/Cello Duo Commissions from Shahab Paranj

Guest Faculty Artist And Clinician Positions

  • Adjudicator for the Senior String division MTNA competition, UC Santa Barbara, CA
  • Adjudicator for the Redlands Bowl Concerto Competition, University of Redlands, CA
  • Norfolk Festival, Yale University, CT
  • Cellobration Festival, University of Southern Illinois (Edwardsville), Artist-in-Residence
  • San Francisco State University, Artist-in-Residence with the Alexander String Quartet
  • Stanford University, Artist-in-Residence
  • Astoria Music Festival, Oregon, Artist-in-Residence
  • Old First Chamber Music Series, Artist-in-Residence
  • Zephyr Chamber Music Festival, Italy, Artist-in-Residence
  • Monmouth College, Artist-in-Residence

Competitions And Grants

  • Frances Walton Solo Competition, Seattle, Winner
  • Quincy Symphony Young Artist Concerto Competition, Winner
  • Berkeley Piano Club Barbara Fritz Chamber Music Award, Winner
  • San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music Grant

Solo Performances

  • Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 with UCLA Symphony
  • Brahms Double Concerto, Dvorak Concerto, Rococo Variations, and Moeran Concerto with Knox-Galesburg Symphony
  • Rococo Variations with American Philharmonic of Sonoma Valley
  • Haydn Concerto in C Major with Monmouth Civic Orchestra
  • Hungarian Rhapsody with Quincy Symphony
  • Beethoven Triple Concerto with One Found Sound Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco
  • Beethoven Triple Concerto with Venice Symphony
  • Beethoven Triple Concerto with Southeast Iowa Symphony, Artist-in-Residence

Timeline

Faculty

Sarasota Conservatory
01.2023 - 01.2025

Owner and Founder

CellOm Strings

Performer

Elan Artists

Communications Associate

Karen Ames Communications

Communications Associate

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Faculty

Suzuki Institute of Music

Teaching Assistant

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Teaching Assistant

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Faculty

San Francisco Community Music Center

Faculty

Northern California Music, Art, and Cultural Center

Private Studio

Master of Music and Professional Studies Diploma -

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Bachelor of Music - double major in English

Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music

international studies in undergraduate program -

Sydney Conservatorium

Doctor of Musical Arts -

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
ANNE SUDA