jennifer bewerse

Cellist Jennifer Bewerse is a devoted champion of the music of our time. As a result of her passion for contemporary classical music, she has premiered over 50 works, was a guest soloist for the Robert Helps Festival and International Composition Competition, was the 2010 Performance Prizewinner at the soundSCAPE festival in Italy, and was a guest performer in the inaugural 2015 New Music Gathering. She has had the privilege to work with many esteemed composers and contemporary music programs including Augusta Read Thomas, Christian Wolff, Chinary Ung, Michael Sydney Timpson, Patricia Alessandrini, Stephen Goss, Chaya Czernowin, Kenji Bunch, Gunther Schuller, Jonathan Harvey, David Del Tredici, Sound Encounters, SICPP, Oregon Bach Festival: Composer’s Symposium, and Music from Salem: the Cello Seminar.

Jennifer is an enthusiastic chamber musician and is currently the cellist of Diagenesis Duo with vocalist Heather Barnes. She is also a founding member of the Bricolage Quartet, formerly in residence as the Boston Conservatory Honors String Quartet.

A native of Florida, Jennifer received her Bachelors of Music magna cum laude from the University of South Florida and her Masters of Music from The Boston Conservatory. Currently, she is pursuing her Doctorate in Contemporary Performance at the University of California in San Diego with a full scholarship. Her principal teachers include Joan Markstein, Scott Kluksdahl, Charles Curtis, and Rhonda Rider, founding member of the Lydian String Quartet.

She is an advocate of “adventurous concert going” and her fresh and genuine sound focuses on inviting her audience to open their minds to a new experience, no matter how established or unknown the repertoire.


For more information, visit her website at jenniferbewerse.com.

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