Cellist Todd Thiel received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory as a student of Ronald Thomas. At Peabody, Mr. Thiel studied chamber music with noted faculty including Earl Carlyss of the Juilliard String Quartet, Marian Hahn, Ellen Mack, Robert MacDonald and members of the Peabody Trio. His cello teachers have also included Steven Doane, Anthony Elliot and Michael Haber. He has played in master classes with David Finckel, Bonnie Hampton and Bernard Greenhouse. He has participated in the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan; the Center d’Arts Orford in Quebec, Canada; the Bowdoin, Musicorda, Encore and Chautaqua Music Festivals. He has appeared in performances in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Kimmel Center and Suntory Hall, and has been on tour to England and South Africa. For five years Mr. Thiel was principal cellist of the New Horizons Chamber Ensemble, a Baltimore-based contemporary music ensemble with which he’s been Artist-in-Residence at the Walden School in New Hampshire. As a member of the New Horizons String Quartet, he has recorded for the “Living Artists Recordings” Label and the Baltimore Composers’ Forum. Currently, Mr. Thiel is principal cellist of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, associate princiapl cellist of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, a member of the Harrisburg and Delaware Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. Additionally, he teaches cello and is on the faculty of Loyola College and the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.