Steuart Pincombe, a strong advocate of both historical performance and new music, is focused on engaging audiences' minds in addressing the aesthetic value of art through innovative lectures and performances.

Steuart Pincombe received a B.M. in modern cello and a M.M. in viola da gamba and baroque cello at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Steuart has appeared in solo and chamber music performances in major venues in the U.S., Poland, Germany, and The Netherlands. He has also independently released two CD's of the complete Bach suites for solo cello, has recorded new music for the Centaur label, and will soon release a CD of the early Beethoven cello sonatas and variations with fortepianist Shuann Chai.

As a baroque cellist and viola da gambist, Steuart has collaborated in chamber concerts with many of the leading American baroque performers and ensembles in several prestigious early music venues and was most recently invited to perform a solo and chamber program at the Bruges Early Music Festival in Belgium. Steuart plays a rare, original Carlo Antonio Testore baroque cello from 1720 kindly on loan from the Jumpstart Jr. Foundation in The Netherlands. He currently lives with his wife Michelle in Oberlin, Ohio and is the cellist of the Credo Trio, baroque cellist/viola da gambist of The Bach Project, and a baroque cellist in Apollo's Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.