Adrienne Hyde

viola da gamba baroque cello

Passionate about honoring and understanding the traditions of all kinds of music, Adrienne Hyde graduated from the Eastman School of Music in May 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance, studying with Alan Harris. Adrienne also studied baroque cello, viola da gamba and continuo with Christel Thielmann and Paul O’Dette for all four years of her degree at Eastman. She earned the school's first-awarded Performance Practice Certificate for dedicated study and research in the field of early music. During her time at Eastman, Adrienne was also selected as an inductee into the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society for her excellence in academics and music performance. She performs frequently on several instruments, including the modern cello, the baroque cello, a 5-string baroque piccolo cello, bass and treble viola da gamba, and the organ!

As a modern cellist, Adrienne has achieved success in solo and chamber competitions in both her home of northern Virginia and Rochester. While at Eastman, Adrienne received the Glenn and Frances Harris Cello Prize, and was a frequent participant in chamber and solo masterclasses with esteemed visiting artists, such as Sharon Robinson, Amir Eldan, Julia Lichten, David Geber, Stephen Geber, Yumi Kendall, amongst others. She performs often with the Ginastera Quartet, which has achieved great success in presenting outreach programs across Rochester during their three years as an ensemble. Also passionate about teaching, Adrienne maintains a small private studio of modern and baroque cello in Rochester and New York City.

As a baroque cellist and gambist, Adrienne frequently appears with Eastman Collegium Musicum, and the Eastman Viol Consort. She subsequently has been privileged to work very closely with Eastman’s world-renowned early music faculty. Adrienne was a founding member of Innominatum, a period chamber ensemble presenting concerts in upstate New York as Pegasus and New York State Baroque young artists. She has also performed in the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series, and Amherst Early Music workshops. Recent research projects have culminated in her contribution to instruction in early improvisation, folk music and historical cello performance.

In Fall 2020, Adrienne began her Master’s degree in Baroque cello and Viola da Gamba at the Juilliard School on full scholarship. Her primary instructors are Phoebe Carrai, baroque cello, and Sarah Cunningham, viol. She was recently awarded the competitive Morse Teaching Artist Fellowship at Juilliard and consequently will be working closely with the community engagement department and NYC public schools. Through this fellowship, she will teach in public schools, tutor music theory students, and produce virtual educational content. In addition, Adrienne was selected as the Cello fellow for the Music Advancement Program at Juilliard, a preparatory program dedicated to diversifying the population of students receiving a classical music education. As the MAP cello fellow she will mentor string and cello students in the preparatory division and teach elective courses on music history and performance practice.

Adrienne’s new ensemble, Open Source Baroque, a broken consort of four Juilliard historical performance students dedicated to programming and recording the music of women, POC, and LGBTQ composers, recently embarked on a project of virtual voter registration. You can follow their progress on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, @OpenSourceBaroque.