British-born cellist Sally Singer Tuttle, noted by The Strad Magazine for her “transforming sweep of gossamer beauty”, has given solo and chamber performances in Europe and throughout the United States and performed as a soloist with orchestras with the Pleven Philharmonic, Bulgaria, the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, New York, the Danbury Symphony, Connecticut, the Washington-Idaho Symphony Orchestra, Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra, Walla Walla Symphony Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, Russia amongst others. Chamber performances highlights include the Tanglewood Music Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Alice Tully Hall in New York, first prize in the John Ireland Chamber Music Competition, British National Television appearances, the Governor’s Mansion, WA and the Australian and American Embassies in Ghana. World premier performances include the works of composers Laura Kaminsky, Wayne Horvitz, Bern Herbolsheimer, Thomas Flaherty, Marilyn Shrude and John David Earnest, the latter of which wrote a Sonata and a Solo Suite dedicated to Sally and pianist Jackie Wood.

Sally is a member of the Volta Piano Trio, (formerly the Icicle Creek Piano Trio), who released three highly acclaimed CDs under the label Con Brio Recordings. Gramophone Magazine praised the first Ravel and Schubert album as being “warmly considered, meticulous in articulation and blend, and silken in sonority”. Fanfare stated of the second, “I can honestly say that the (Trio’s) Shostakovich is another award winning performance that, in my opinion, demotes even the best of the rest to second class”, and of the most recent recording, Brahms and Clara Schumann, “here we have the Volta Piano Trio playing Brahms’s Piano Trio in B Major in a performance of such aching beauty I find myself at a loss for words to describe it”. NPR also broadcast a live Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival performance given by the Trio on their national show “Performance Today”.

A committed educator, Sally teaches cello at Whitman College and Walla Walla University. She gives masterclasses, judges frequent young artist competitions and has given chamber and orchestral clinics throughout the States. In her role as former Co-Artistic Director of the Icicle Creek Music Center, WA, Sally invited Midori, Mark O’Connor and the Tokyo String Quartet to perform and work with young musicians from the region and she herself performed and taught with Nathaniel Rosen, Steven Doane, Karen Dreyfus and Rachel Barton Pine, amongst many others. Sally’s cello performance degrees include a Graduate Degree in Music: First Class Honors and a Post Graduate Diploma from the Royal Northern College of Music, UK and a Doctorate in Musical Arts from Stony Brook University, New York. Her primary cello teachers have been Elizabeth Petter, Moray Welsh and Eduardo Vassallo in the UK and Timothy Eddy in the U.S.

Residential summer festivals have been Tanglewood, the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, the Siletz Bay Music Festival, Kinhaven in Vermont, The Methow Valley Chamber Festival, the Roosevelt Island Chamber Festival, NY, the Las Vegas Chamber Music Festival, and the Midsummer Musical Retreat, WA. Dr. Singer Tuttle performs on an English cello made by John Betts in 1790. In balance with her musical life, she enjoys swimming and boating with her husband and daughter, walking their dog Piper and spending time with family and friends in the U.S. and England.