Alison Wells

Alison Wells (cello) spent much of her career in the United States, where she was on the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Peabody Conservatory. Before that she taught at Trinity College of Music and The Purcell School in London and on the specialist music scheme at Wells. A graduate of Cambridge University, the Royal Academy of Music, and Yale University where she was a Harkness Fellow, she studied with Ralph Kirshbaum, David Strange and Aldo Parisot. She has had a varied chamber music career since making her South Bank recital debut in 1989, supported by the Maisie Lewis Charitable Trust. Ms Wells was a founder member of the Pirasti Trio, performing throughout the UK, Europe and the USA, and recording for ASV. She has collaborated with members of the Cleveland, Orion, Brentano, Muir, Cavani, and Brodsky quartets and she returns to the USA every summer to participate in the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. She has a deep interest in teaching ergonomically free playing and gives regular workshops on injury prevention as the only UK string player licensed in Body Mapping. Former students have been prizewinners at competitions internationally and hold positions in orchestras across the world.