Cellist Rose Bellini is an outstanding performer of solo, chamber, and contemporary music.  Currently residing in New York City, she has recently appeared in the Wave Rising Dance Series in Brooklyn, Vox 2007 and Wall to Wall Opera in Manhattan, and at the New Paths in Music Festival 2007 under the direction of David Alan Miller.  She has worked with numerous established as well as emerging composers including Michael Gordon, Derek Bermel, James Holt, Garrett Byrnes, Derek Johnson, Todd Reynolds, Don Byron, Dan Bradshaw, and Eric Guinivan. 

Rose performs in venues all around New York, including recently at Carnegie Hall, the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, Symphony Space, and the John Ryan Theater in Brooklyn.  She has recently been heard with such groups as the TACTUS Ensemble, Astoria Symphony, and Musical Theatre Group.  In the summer of 2007, Rose performs at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at the MASS MoCA Museum in Western Massachusetts.

Rose has appeared as soloist with the Musica Bella Orchestra of New York, an Indiana University orchestra, the Indiana Cello Ensemble, the Indiana University Chamber Choir, and the Indianapolis Academy of Music.  She has been heard in numerous solo and chamber music recitals at the world-renowned Indiana University Jacobs School of Music over the past ten years.  She has premièred countless works, and commissions new pieces for cello and amplified cello.  Rose was the featured soloist in the 2005 performance of Robert Griffin Byron’s Epitaph for cello and MAX/MSP, and appeared at the 2006 Midwest Composer’s Symposium in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

Her primary teachers have included the distinguished cellist Janos Starker and the dynamic Emilio Colón.  Rose is an ABD Doctoral Candidate in Cello Performance at Indiana University.  Her dissertation research will result in the publication of a new critical edition of the cello concertos of Janson, based on recently recovered autograph manuscripts.  By day, Rose is Assistant Director of Development for New York’s own Orchestra of St. Luke’s.