MARY GRACE BENDER CELLO
Cellist MaryGrace Bender pursues a multi-faceted career in performance, recording, and music education. As a Suzuki teacher, Bender seeks to reach every child through music and adores watching her students grow. Bender teaches privately in Nashville and is on faculty at Union University. As an avid collaborative and chamber musician, Bender recently founded the Nashville Chamber Music Society and performs frequently with the ensemble in and around Nashville. Other recent performance highlights include a concert with the McDuffie Center for Strings in Carnegie Hall, concerts as Young Artist for The Rome Chamber Music Festival in Italy, and orchestrally recording under Philip Glass’s Orange Mountain Music label which The Wall Street Journal reviewed as, “impeccably polished.”
Bender’s extensive studies include a master's degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music in Cello Performance and Suzuki Pedagogy, and an undergraduate degree from The Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University. She has spent summers at The National Repertory Orchestra, Meadowmount School of Music, The Rome Chamber Music Festival, Brevard Music Festival, Chautauqua Summer Institute, and the Aspen Music Festival and School as a New Horizon's fellow.
