Cello
Adelle-Akiko Kearns
Assistant Principal
San Francisco native Adelle-Akiko Kearns began studying the cello at the age of 11 and continued her studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School with Irene Sharp, Bonnie Hampton, Joel Krosnick and Sadao Harada. The recipient of a prestigious Artists International Award, Adelle made her New York recital debut at Carnegie's Weill Hall in November of 2008. In 2006 Adelle performed the Japanese premiere of the Korngold Cello Concerto with the Tokyo Philharmonic, and was invited back to perform the Dvorak cello concerto with them the following year. Additionally she has made solo appearances with several American orchestras performing the concerti of Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian and Barber.
Adelle is currently the principal cellist of the Santa Rosa Symphony, assistant principal cellist of the Monterey Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, and the Stockton Symphony, as well as a section cellist with the Marin Symphony. An avid chamber musican, she is a former member of the Farallon Quintet and has performed with acclaimed musicians such as Robert Mann, Jorja Fleezanis, Daisuke Suzuki, Axel Strauss, Ian Swensen, Paul Hersh and the Da Capo Chamber Players.