Claire Bryant, cellist, has appeared as a guest soloist with orchestras including the Kuopion Orchestieri of Finland, the National Symphony of Honduras in Tegucigalpa, the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra, and the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra. An active chamber musician, she has collaborated with artists such as Donald Weilerstein, Peter Frankl, Boris Berman, The Peabody Trio, Roger Tapping, Maria Lambros, Anthony Marwood, Carol Wincenc, and members of the St. Lawrence, Orion, Mendelssohn, and Pacifica String Quartets. 

A leading performer and advocate of contemporary music, Ms. Bryant enjoys her involvement in several cutting-edge ensembles based in the New York metropolitan area.  She is a founding member of the TETRAS Quartet, a string quartet which is dedicated to the study, performance, and promotion of repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries. She is also a member of Vision Into Art, New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Second Instrumental Unit, and AXIOM.  She has participated in performances at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel and Weill Halls as part of the Young Artists Concerts and Workshops of Michael Tilson Thomas, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, and Dawn Upshaw & Oswaldo Golijov, as well as the Making Music Series of Sofia Gubaidulina. 

In early 2007, Ms. Bryant was selected as a founding Fellow of The Academy---A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute.  Through this fellowship, she is a member of Ensemble ACJW—a resident ensemble of Carnegie Hall, as well as a Teaching Artist at PS157X in the south Bronx.  She is the founder, producer, and artistic director for the acclaimed chamber music series, With Strings Attached, which has raised over $10,000 for the benefit of arts education in her native state of South Carolina.

Ms. Bryant, a native of Camden, South Carolina, received her Bachelor of Music degree from The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and her Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School. Ms. Bryant’s principal teachers have been Bonnie Hampton, Joel Krosnick, Robert Jesselson, and David Gibson.  Ms. Bryant now serves as Assistant Faculty to Bonnie Hampton at The Juilliard School.  She has also served on faculty at Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival’s Young Artist Program.