Peter Myers

Praised for the warmth and color of his sound, American cellist, composer, and arranger Peter Myers (b. 1985, St. Louis) has served as Assistant Principal Cellist of the San Francisco Opera since 2017, and is internationally known as a chamber musician. He is a founding member of SAKURA, a unique and innovative quintet of cellos, as well as the Saguaro Piano Trio, which placed first in the 2009 International Chamber Music Competition Hamburg, and he has concertized in the US, Germany, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Laos, Pakistan, and Mongolia. He is a regular participant at the Marlboro Music Festival (including appearances on tour with Musicians from Marlboro), and has also appeared as guest principal cellist of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Myers studied at the Colburn Conservatory with Ronald Leonard and completed his graduate studies with Ralph Kirshbaum at the University of Southern California. For several years, he served as Co-Director of Music for the American Contemporary Ballet (Los Angeles), and was a Young Artist in Residence of the Da Camera Society (Los Angeles). He lives in San Francisco and plays an 1876 cello by Claude-Augustin Miremont.