Cellist Ariana Falk has appeared around the world as a multi-faceted musician committed to bringing passionate, innovative performance to the stage. As a recitalist and chamber musician, she has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, Mechanics Hall, Sprague Hall at Yale, the Kennedy Center, and the Chapel Royal series in Brighton, U.K. She has also appeared a guest artist on the Marlboro College and Longy School of Music Faculty Artist series, live on WGBH Boston and WVPR, and at the Al Kamandjati Festival in Ramallah and Jerusalem. She has collaborated with distinguished musicians including Menahem Pressler and Paul Katz and toured with the Grammy Award-nominated Yale Cellos. A review in Portland’s Oregonian said “Falk was terrific; her tone was solid and appropriately dark, and she carefully calibrated her path from lyrically mysterious beginnings on to a blistering, biting climax.”

Ariana combines performance with a passion for forging new paths in teaching artistry. She is the founding Program Director of Neighborhood Strings, a community-based program of the Worcester Chamber Music Society that offers intensive music education to youth from underserved neighborhoods. She currently serves as Education Director and a cellist of the Worcester Chamber Music Society, Director of Neighborhood Strings, and Director of ChamberFest. Ariana is on the music faculty of Clark University.

Ariana received a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Boston University and Master of Music and Artist Diploma degrees from the Yale School of Music, where she was recipient of the Aldo Parisot Prize. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Yale College. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras around North America, including Portland’s Columbia Symphony, the Olympia Symphony, Yale Bach Society, and the Sounds of Stow Orchestras. She is a former Fellow at Community MusicWorks, the Providence organization committed to creating an urban community through music education and performance.

Ariana was a Fulbright Scholar to Germany, and she now serves as Music Director of the Massachusetts Fulbright Association. She has served on the chamber music faculty of Brown University and on the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Other appearances include the Norfolk Music Festival, the Garth Newel Music Center, the Banff Centre, and the Juilliard, Great Lakes, and Deer Valley festivals. As an orchestral musician, she performs with Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera.

A passionate advocate for contemporary music, Ariana has premiered dozens of new works and is committed to performing and celebrating the music of our time. She worked with Joan Tower, was a member of the Norfolk Contemporary Ensemble, and gave the Heidelberg premiere of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza XIV .

A native of Portland, OR, Ariana made her solo debut with the “Live from the Schnitzer” orchestra playing Elgar at age fifteen. As part of the Charivari String Quartet with her violist twin brother, she appeared on the pilot season of “From the Top” in Boston’s Jordan Hall.