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Laurie Haines Reese
cello & electric cello
A classically trained musician, Laurie has free-lanced and performed on cello extensively throughout the United States and Europe. She is as comfortable in the recording studio as she is on stage, having been a professional musician since she was seventeen years old. Click here to view a listing of Laurie's instruments and equipment.
She earned a Master of Music Performance degree from the University of Southern California and while in Los Angeles, studied advanced classical cello repertoire with Eleanor Schoenfeld. She studied at the University of Miami, Florida earning a Bachelor in Music Performance and played both classical and jazz, regularly with Ira Sullivan and Strings Attached. She also free-lanced with various symphony orchestras, a string quartet and a flute quartet. Following her graduate work in Los Angeles, she moved to Maui, Hawaii to work full-time as a professional musician. While there, she co-founded the Chamber Jazz Maui trio with Jazlynn Woods and Tim O'Hara, performing a repertoire "from Bach to the Beatles." She later spent six months in Seattle then ventured back home to Pennsylvania for what was supposed to be a short visit.
She currently holds positions as adjunct cello instructor at Millersville University and cello instructor at the Lancaster Conservatory of Music. She formerly taught at Lebanon Valley College (Adjunct Instructor of Cello), Messiah College (Adjunct Artist, Cello), and F&M College (Adjunct Professor of Cello).
She has recorded with The Reese Project, Susquehanna, Wyndfall, Muzette, Gypsophilia, and also with Ira Sullivan and Strings Attached. Session work includes Jon Anderson (of YES)'s Christmas album, Jesse Yawn, Empty Hats, Arcona Reel Band, Harmony Hill, Bobbi Carmitchell and many others. Laurie has also perfomed with the Lancaster and York (PA) Symphony Orchestras, the Maui Symphony, the Dela'Art Trio and others. Laurie has played concertos in Hawaii as well as in Pennsylvania.
She is happily married to flutist Tom Reese and when not playing music enjoys spending time at home with Tom and their three cats.
Laurie Haines Reese plays the following instruments live and in the studio:
Acoustic Cello
German acosutic cello from the 1850's
Electric Cello
NS Design 5-string electric cello with low F string
Bow
Wilhelm Shuster with an ivory frog
Pick-up
Shadow stereo pick-up (for the acoustic cello)
Amplification
David Gage Traveler System
Effects
DigiTech vocal effects processor (pedal system)
Boss octaver (with acoustic cello only)
Wyndfall: Piper's Dream