M.M., Musikhochschule Freiburg in Germany, and B.M., Boston University.
Cellist Tobias Werner’s performances have been praised as being “elegant, eloquent” and “quietly ferocious” (Washington Post). He currently serves as the Music Director for the Chamber Music Conference of the East, Artistic Director of Pressenda Chamber Players, and is an Arts for the Aging (AFTA) Teaching Artist.
From 1999 until 2012, Mr. Werner was the Cellist-in-Residence and Co-Artistic Director at the Garth Newel Music Center, where he recorded the complete Piano Quartets by Mozart, Brahms, Dvorák, and Martinu with the Garth Newel Piano Quartet.
A versatile soloist and chamber musician, he has performed with orchestras across the US and Europe, and appeared at the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, Villa Musica Mainz, the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop, the Vail Valley Bravo! Colorado Music Festival, the Maui Classical Music Festival, in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Strathmore Hall, the Phillips Collection, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His most recently released recordings include the complete Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by. J.S. Bach, and the Sonatas for Piano and Cello by Beethoven with Victor Asuncion.
Mr. Werner studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and Boston University, working with Andrés Díaz, Christoph Henkel, and Xavier Gagnepain. He plays on an 1844 J.F. Pressenda cello.
