Rachel Arnold: Cello/Yoga/Craft Lady

Cellist Rachel Arnold, a Los Angeles native, is an active chamber musician and teacher living in the Boston area. She has performed in numerous chamber music festivals including Zephyr (Italy), Bowdoin, and the Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice at the New England Conservatory. Rachel is a core member of  Juventas, the ensemble in residence at the Boston Conservatory. She collaborates frequently with flutist Ashley Addington, and they perform contemporary music and premiere commissioned works for flute and cello.

Rachel can also be seen performing with local rock bands Future Carnivores, Guillermo Sexo, Mascara, and Ryan Lee Crosby. She is also a founding member of the wrong shapes, a rock duo with guitarist and singer Bo Barringer. Recently Rachel played live music (as a soloist) in a workshop for renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea, and has she also performed in other yoga classes with the reputable vocalist and guitarist Daphne Tse.  

She has been a member of the Los Angeles-based Partch Ensemble, in which she played the microtonal music of Harry Partch on an adapted viola and a kithara (a 72-stringed harp-like instrument). Rachel is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and the Longy School of Music where she earned her Master of Music degree. Her principal teachers are Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick and Terry King. Rachel can be heard on the pfMentum, Cold Blue, 7Tangram Records, Afrasia, and Innova record labels.

photo credit: Cara Brostrom

photo credit: Cara Brostrom