PAULA FEHRENBACH      

   Currently a chamber musician, new-music performer, teacher and orchestral musician in Los Angeles, cellist Paula Fehrenbach began her musical life in the public schools of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and received her first formal training in cello upon her acceptance to the Peabody Conservatory as a college student. After degrees from Peabody with Yehuda Hanani and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with Steven Shumway, she was chosen by Lynn Harrell to join his first class at the University of Southern California where she received her doctorate in 1992. She then spent three years with the New World Symphony under the baton of Michael Tilson-Thomas before returning to Southern California where she now pursues a varied career as artist and teacher. She performs regularly with many orchestras including the Santa Barbara Symphony, the New West Symphony, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, and the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra and is on the faculty at Long Beach City College and Pasadena City College. She is active in new music with performances at REDCAT, the Library of Congress, New York’s Cooper Union, and the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, and as a member of the feHrmEnbuRg Triohelped found the Los Angeles-based group, inauthentica.
    When not playing cello or driving somewhere to play cello, Paula enjoys spending time with her husband guitarist/composer Brian Head and their Siberian husky, Rondeau. Paula is also an avid football fan and can often be seen on breaks or at intermission checking the scores for the USC Trojans and the Green Bay Packers. This winter, Paula plans to leave her cello in Los Angeles for a week to head to Northern Minnesota to fulfill a longtime dream of going dogsledding.