Cullen O'Neil

Praised for her “varied and colorful continuo-playing” (Mittelbayerische Zeitung), New York City-based cellist Cullen O’Neil enjoys a robust career in early music. She is a core member of Boston Baroque, a fellow of The English Concert in America, and performs frequently with leading early music ensembles across the world. Inspired by early music’s creative potential, she is a founding member of Nuova Pratica, a pioneering ensemble of composer-performers; Quartet Salonnières, a historical quartet; and Relic, a Baroque chamber orchestra with an innovative, mythopoetic approach to programming.
 

Performances have brought Cullen across North America, Europe and Asia to venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Mariinsky II in St. Petersburg, Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms, the Helsinki Musiikkitalo, Shanghai Concert Hall and the Philharmonie de Paris. She received her masters degree in Historical Performance at the Juilliard School in 2021, where she studied cello with Phoebe Carrai. In 2019 she graduated with degrees in modern cello and music theory from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Richard Aaron.