Mary Artmann, cello, is an active chamber musician, recitalist, and freelancer in the Bay Area. She currently performs with the Orland/Artmann cello/piano duo and with and with the SoMa Piano Trio. Before returning to the Bay Area, Ms. Artmann was a member of the award-winning Veronika String Quartet, artists-in-residence at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She also spent numerous years living in upstate New York where she was a member of the Syracuse Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Slee Sinfonietta. As a devoted performer of new music, she has performed with the Empyrean Ensemble, the SF Contemporary Music Players, and the June in Buffalo Festival. Ms. Artmann is on the chamber music and cello faculty at the Crowden Music Center. Many of her collaborative performance projects have been sponsored by grants from the Colorado Council on the Arts and the New York State Council of the Arts. She has recorded for Colorado Public Radio, Radio Nuevo Leon, Radio France, WDR (Cologne, Germany) and WBFO’s Opus Classics Series (Buffalo, NY). Education highlights include a high distinction award upon graduation from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California, and Artist Diploma studies at Oberlin. She was twice the recipient of the Alfred Hertz Memorial Traveling Fellowship, sponsoring intensive study with the legendary Siegfried Palm in Cologne, Germany and Ron Leonard in Los Angeles. Ms. Artmann maintains private teaching studios in Richmond and Berkeley. She is an avid hiker and is a member of the Sierra Club. She currently spends most of her waking hours strategizing about how to use her skills to combat our global climate emergency.