Cellist Beth Vanderborgh enjoys a multifaceted career as a soloist, chamber musician, Baroque specialist, and educator. She is Professor of Cello at the University of Wyoming, Principal Cellist of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, and a member of the artist-faculty at the Eastern Music Festival. Her performances and recordings have earned international critical acclaim, including praise from The Strad (London) for her recording of the music of August Nölck as “lyrical and technically accomplished…eloquent and persuasive,” as well as “sparkling technique” (L’Est Républicain, France) and “Wow! Great Stuff” (The Washington Post).

 

An active chamber musician, Vanderborgh has collaborated with artists such as Lynn Harrell, Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade, Augustin Hadelich, Nadia Solerno-Sonnenberg, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Garrick Ohlsson, Jon Nakamatsu, and Bella Davidovich. She is a founding member of the French-based Stanislas Sextet, whose fourth recording, featuring string sextets by Schoenberg, d’Indy, and Schulhoff, was recently released on the Forgotten Records label. She also tours regularly with the Helios Trio, which made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2022.

 

A committed performer of historically informed performance, Vanderborgh appears on both Baroque cello and viola da gamba. Her Baroque engagements have included performances at the Smithsonian Institution, the Virginia Baroque Academy, and with Wyoming Baroque, the Colorado Bach Ensemble, and Baroque Music Montana. She  performs on a rare lion-headed cello made by Anton Wachter in 1750.

 

Vanderborgh holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Maryland, where she studied with David Geber, Evelyn Elsing, and David Soyer. She pursued advanced chamber music studies with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Cleveland, and American String Quartets, and historical performance studies with Kenneth Slowik and Louis Bagger.