David Olson

On Stage

Originally from Storrs, Connecticut, cellist David Olson began his music studies on violin and piano at the age of three. He recently completed a three-year cello fellowship with the New World Symphony. Prior to joining the NWS he lived in Houston, where he performed and maintained a full teaching studio. He is a core member of the Kinetic Ensemble, dedicated to amplifying diverse, under-performed, and newly composed classical music, and has performed regularly with many other organizations including the Monarch Chamber Players and Aperio, Music of the Americas. He recently spent a month in Sitka, Alaska performing at the Sitka Music Festival.

As a chamber musician Olson has performed across the country and abroad including two residencies in Abu-Dhabi at Pollen, a local concert series where he performed as part of a piano trio and taught local students through the Pollen coaching residency. He has also performed extensively as cellist of the Kamila, Thesiger, and Zeitlin string quartets. Within these groups he has participated in the Aspen Music Festival Center for Advanced Quartet Studies, Robert Mann String Quartet Institute, and Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.

Olson received his master’s degree from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University as a student of Desmond Hoebig. While at Rice, he was a recipient of the Michael P. Hammond Preparatory Program Scholarship and as Brown Scholar, taught in the Preparatory Chamber Music Program. Olson previously completed his bachelor’s degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Stephen Geber.