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Carter Dewberry, Cellist and Board President

Carter Dewberry completed her DMA in Chamber Music Performance from UCLA in December, 2005. She received her MM in Cello Performance from UCLA in June, 2002 and her B.M. in Cello Performance from Western Michigan University in April, 1998. She also holds a B.A. in French with a minor in Women's Studies and Philosophy.

Ms. Dewberry has a wide variety of performance experience. As soloist, she has performed the Elgar Cello Concerto with the San Fernando Valley Symphony and the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Battle Creek Symphony (in Michigan), and the Western Michigan University Symphony. She has over ten years of experience playing in professional orchestras, including the Riverside, San Fernando, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids and Battle Creek symphonies. She has also performed as part of the orchestra on film scores from Xmen II to Pumpkin to Gothika and records regularly as a studio musician for independant film and music projects.

Ms. Dewberry's passion, however, is chamber music performance.  Ms. Dewberry is currently a member of The Nucleus Ensemble and has performed recently with The Tonoi Ensemble, the jazz guitarist Peter Sprague and the Calfornia Quartet, the jazz pop duo Red Velvet, and electronic music artist George Sarah.  She is also Director and Founder of The Definiens Project, whose mission is to present music that attracts new and retains existing chamber music audiences.