The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

Alison Wells is a member of the cello faculty at the Peabody Institute. She was a founding member of the British-based Pirasti Trio, whose performances have been described as “absolutely incandescent” (The Strad) and “eloquent, unfailingly stylish” (Gramaphone), and whose recordings on ASV were recommended by BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, International Record Review, and Fanfare and were selected recordings by BBC Radio 3’s “Building a Library”. She has toured throughout Europe, and in North America and Hong Kong, performing at venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, New York’s 92nd Street Y and Merkin Hall; the Bath, Warwick and Schleswig-Holstein International Festivals; and the Orlando Festival in Holland. She has broadcast on BBC Radio 3, London’s Classic FM, Dutch National Radio, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, North German Radio, and WQXR in New York. She was featured in a British Channel 4 TV documentary on the Chamber Music of Penderecki.

Wells is a graduate of Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music in England, studying with Ralph Kirshbaum and David Strange. She holds a doctorate from Yale Universtity, where she studied with Aldo Parisot as a Harkness Fellow. In 1988 she joined the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, under Simon Rattle, and was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. The following year she gave her London solo recital debut at the South Bank, sponsored by the Maisie Lewis Young Artists’ Trust. Wells is a former faculty member at Trinity College of Music, London; and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has served on the faculties of ENCORE School for Strings, ARIA, the Dartington and Aberystwyth summer festivals in Britain, and the Paxos Festival in Greece. This summer she participated in festivals at La Loingtaine in France and returned to the Heifetz Institute in New Hampshire. This season’s performances include concerts in Singapore.

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