Biography
Cellist Clara Kennedy, a 2005 graduate of The Juilliard School, began playing the cello at age ten. She has studied with Leslie Moye, Eugene Kim, and Joel Krosnick, who was her private teacher at The Juilliard School. A native of Wichita, Kansas, she recently returned to perform in multiple concerts at The Chamber Music at The Barn concert series. Clara was seated principal cellist of The Juilliard Orchestra and played under conductors such as Otto Werner-Mueller, James DePreist, Raymond Leppard and Gerard Schwarz. Performing and collaborating with artists of varied mediums from Shortbus' Scott Matthew and Justin Bond of the broadway duo Kiki and Herb to Wynton w/ Strings alongside Wynton Marasalis' Quintet, she has performed in venues such as The Bowery Ballroom, Jazz at Lincoln Center, St. Ann's Warehouse, Avery Fisher Hall, Speigeltent and Carnegie Hall. She recently performed in the debut concert of the contemporary composers collective Blind Ear Music, playing the works of Jakub Ciupinski, Andy Akiho, Barrett Anspach and Ryan Francis. She is a contributing member of the multimedia performance art collective Ditch Productions, composing and performing in multimedia productions with fellow Juilliard graduates. What is she doing now?…you might ask…besides writing about herself in the third person? Well. Clara has attempted to dive but belly-flopped into a world of poetic song and attempted improv, learning music that ranges from jazz-fusion to swing to wailing rancheras to early blues, etc.. She likes to sing and pretend to play guitar, trying her hand at a good ol' fashioned dog and pony show. (dogs and ponies still in training) She likes long walks on the beach and would really love to join a circus.
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