Carrie Bean Stute

CELLIST

A versatile performer bringing “sonorous life” to the stage [Cleveland Plain Dealer], cellist Carrie Bean Stute is co-founder and co-artistic director of the Capitol Hill-based chamber music series Chiarina Chamber Players. A recipient of a 2020 Classical Commissioning Grant from Chamber Music America, grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the inaugural John Franzén Award for the Arts from the Capitol Hill Community Foundation, Chiarina has won critical acclaim for its artistry and innovative programming. Carrie’s chamber music performances have been broadcast on Classical WETA’s Front Row Washington.

 In 2021 Carrie performed as soloist in the North American premiere of Pēteris Vasks’s Cello Concerto No. 2. A performer who seeks out the voices of today, she collaborates with a growing set of composers, including Kennedy Center composer-in-residence Carlos Simon, who composed a work for Chiarina in 2020. She took part in the Carnegie Hall workshop “New Voices, New Music” and has performed chamber music at such venues as New York’s Zankel Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette, and an in-house educational residency at the 92nd Street Y. In DC, she has performed with the 21st Century Consort and the National Symphony Orchestra. She currently serves as assistant principal cellist of “The President’s Own” Marine Chamber Orchestra, where she performs in such diverse settings as the White House, area public schools, the Phillips Collection, and for events hosted by the United Nations and State Department.

 Carrie was a fellow at the New World Symphony, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Sarasota and Norfolk chamber music festivals. She served as an adjunct instructor at CUNY Queens College, where she taught cello and chamber music, and also served as a faculty member at the DC Youth Orchestra Program, the Opus 118 School in Harlem, and at national youth orchestra festivals in Colombia and Honduras. She holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, and The Graduate Center at City University of New York, where she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Her teachers include Steven Doane, János Starker, and Marcy Rosen.