Laurie Haines Reese

Cello

Laurie is dedicated to creating new music that features the cello.  Improvisation is an important part of music, a part that allows each individual a chance to speak the music that is in their heart.  An accomplished classical musician, Laurie loves the variety in performing jazz, folk and improvisatory music.  From Lancaster, PA, Laurie has free-lanced & concertized extensively on the east coast, in Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle, Hawaii, New York & Europe.  Currently the cellist for The Reese Project as well as several other ensembles, ranging from classical to jazz to celtic music.  

She earned a Master of Music Performance degree from the University of Southern California.  While in Los Angeles, she studied the advanced classical cello repertoire with Eleanor Schoenfeld.  While in Miami, she studied at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL), earning a Bachelor in Music Performance.  She played both classical & jazz, performing regularly with Ira Sullivan & Strings Attached.  She also free-lanced extensively, playing in various symphony orchestras, doing studio work and working with a string quartet & a flute quartet.

Following her graduate work in Los Angeles, she went to Maui to work full-time as a professional musician.  While there, she co-founded a trio called Chamber Jazz Maui, along with Jazlynn Woods & Tim O'Hara, that performed a variety of repertoire "from Bach to Beatles."  From there, she spent six months in Seattle, then ventured "back home" to Pennsylvania for what was supposed to be a short visit.  Many years later, she is happily married (to composer/flutist Tom Reese) & is very happy hanging out with Tom & their three cats in her small town home. 

She is as comfortable in the recording studio as she is on the concert stage, having been a studio musician since she was seventeen years old.  She has recorded with several bands, including The Reese Project (including the Grammy nominated "Blue Etude"), Susquehanna, Wyndfall, MuZette, Gypsophilia, and also with Ira Sullivan & Strings Attached.  Session work includes Jon Anderson's Christmas album, Jesse Yawn, Empty Hats, Arcona Reel Band, OCD Circus, Harmony Hill, Bobbi Carmitchell & many others.  She formerly taught at Lebanon Valley College (Adjunct Instructor of Cello), Messiah College (Adjunct Artist, Cello), F&M College (Adjunct Professor of Cello).  She formerly performed with the Dela'Art Trio (classical piano trio), Gypsophilia (European folk music), Chamber Jazz Maui (jazz & pop trio) & with Ira Sullivan & Strings Attached (jazz ensemble), Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, York Symphony Orchestra & others.

 Education:

• Master of Music, Cello Performance, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.  Teacher:  Eleanor Schoenfeld.
• Bachelor of Music, Cello Performance, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.  Teacher:  Eugene Eicher.

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