Cellist Wendy Morton is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Orlando Cole. She also studied with Lawrence Lesser at the New England Conservatory. Other mentors include Karen Tuttle, Felix Galimir, Joseph Gingold, Mischa Schneider, and Isador Cohen.
Ms. Morton is a founding member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet. An active chamber musician, she also performs with the Pushkin Ensemble, Quattro Corde, and is a member of the Duvall Trio. She has performed with such notable musicians as Nobuko Imai, Julius Levine, Ann Schein, Gerard Poulet and Micaslov Horzovsky. She previously performed with the Telluride Chamber Players, and was featured with the Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine. Ms. Morton has been invited to numerous music festivals, including the Marble Cliff Chamber Players, based in Columbus and Delaware, Ohio, and was a faculty member of the Eastern Music Festival for many summers.
As a soloist, Wendy has performed extensively throughout the country, receiving such critical acclaim as, “…the concerto demonstrated Morton’s considerable ability. The technical demands of the piece seemed denied by the ease with which Morton met them.”
Wendy has performed with the Santa Fe Opera orchestra, Honolulu Symphony, Pennsylvania Ballet and Opera Orchestras, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis Institute of Music. She has also performed with the Inverness Festival Orchestra, Harvard Chamber Orchestra, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and the Brandenburg Ensemble under Alexander Schneider, with whom she toured the East Coast, including performances in Boston’s Symphony Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York. She is the assistant principal cellist of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and is on the faculties of Ohio Wesleyan University and Capital University. Wendy is a native of the San Francisco bay area where she studied with the matriarch of cello pedagogy, Margaret Rowell. |
