A devoted collaborator, cellist KIRSTEN JERMÉ has performed and coached chamber music internationally. Based in NYC, Kirsten recently served as guest cellist of the Cassatt String Quartet for the 2022 Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music and performed with ensembles including the Harlem Chamber Players and North Country Chamber Players. She has appeared as a chamber musician with the Carolina Ballet, Battleworks Dance Company at the Joyce Theater, and with members of the Louisville Ballet and Orchestra at the Speed Art Museum; with the Living Arts Collective Ensemble at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and on series such as Electric Earth Concerts, the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Raleigh Sights and Sounds Series with Mallarmé Chamber Players, and the Strad for Lunch Recital Series.  Her eclectic freelance life in New York has brought her to stages ranging from Carnegie, Weill and Zankel Halls to Madison Square Garden, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Roulette, and the United Nations.  Formerly cellist of the Larchmere String Quartet, she performed across the U.S., in Canada and Italy and recorded for Naxos while serving as Eykamp String Quartet faculty artist-in-residence at the University of Evansville and principal cellist of the Evansville Philharmonic.  Kirsten has also served as cello faculty at North Carolina State University.  She received her M.M. at Eastman School of Music and her B.A. from Stony Brook University, and is currently a D.M.A. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.  Her primary teachers include Colin Carr, Steven Doane, and Marcy Rosen.