Sally Singer Tuttle

British-born cellist Sally Singer Tuttle has given numerous world premiere performances of solo and chamber works 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 and the Walla Walla Symphony, the Wenatchee Valley Symphony and the Icicle Creek Institute Orchestra in the Pacific Northwest, amongst others. She also appeared with her trio with the Washington-Idaho Symphony Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, Russia, performing Beethoven's Triple concerto. Chamber performances highlights include the Tanglewood Music Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, first prize in the John Ireland Chamber Music Competition, British National Television appearances, the Governor's Mansion, WA, the Vovka Ashkenazy Piano Trio, and collaborations with leading artists Ian Swensen, Nathaniel Rosen, Heasook Rhee, Steven Doane, Anthony Elliott and Rachel Barton Pine. 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, a solo suite and a piano trio dedicated to Sally as the cellist.

Sally is a member of the Volta Piano Trio, (formerly the Icicle Creek Piano Trio), who released three CDs highly acclaimed by Gramophone, The Strad and Fanfare magazines, the American Record Guide and others, under the label Con Brio Recordings.  She also recorded Lou Harrison's Concerto for Violin, Cello and Gamelan, with Jarrad Powell's acclaimed ensemble Gamelan Pacifica and violinist Jennifer Caine Provine. NPR broadcasted a live Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival performance given by the Trio on their national show "Performance Today". Sally is the Cellist and Artistic Director for the New York based organization Sankusem, which is dedicated to the exploration and performance of African Music written for classical instruments and  she enjoys performing works written for cello and piano by the late Ghanaian composer, Kwabena Nketia. Sally also composes short works herself, and improvises with various groups of diverse genres.

A committed educator, Dr. Singer Tuttle teaches cello at Whitman College. She has given masterclasses in the US, the UK, Ghana and Australia and has judged many young artist competitions and given chamber and orchestral clinics throughout the States. In her role as former Co-Artistic Director and at the Icicle Creek Music Center, Sally co-directed the International Chamber Music Festival, the Chamber Music Institute and the annual Youth Symphony Chamber programs and invited Midori, Mark O'Connor and the Tokyo String Quartet, amongst many others, to perform and to work with young artists from the NW region. Residential summer festivals have included the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, the Siletz Bay Music Festival and a pilot music festival in Accra, Ghana.  Dr. Singer Tuttle plays a cello made in England by Samuel Bernard Fendt in 1835.