Bree Ahern

Social Media Manager, Cellist

Cellist Bree Ahern is a versatile solo and chamber musician committed to building community through performing, teaching, and collaborating across art forms. As a core member of Monarch Chamber Players, she is a passionate advocate of taking classical music out of the concert hall and into the community, engaging with audience members on a personal level and performing in unconventional venues. Coupled with her work as a Young Artist with Da Camera of Houston, she is a dedicated citizen artist, working with disadvantaged and underserved communities and using music to serve and enrich the lives of fellow Houstonians.

Bree is also a core member of Kinetic Ensemble, an artist-led ensemble committed to showcasing diverse, underrepresented, and newly composed classical music, and Loop38, a boundary-pushing new music collective that strives to build community through innovative and culturally relevant musical experiences. She is a firm believer that contemporary music is accessible to all and regularly presents newly composed works to diverse audiences throughout Houston.

With chamber music at the core of her career, Bree has studied with artists such as Norman Fischer, James Dunham, Brian Connelly, and members of the Takacs, Cavani, Dover, and Artemis string quartets. She has also appeared at festivals such as Round Top Festival Institute, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Hot Springs Music Festival, and Brevard Music Center.

Bree currently teaches at AFA’s Chamber Music Academy and is on faculty at San Jacinto College. She is an alumnus of Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she studied under Norman Fischer. When not performing, Bree likes to paint, play pickleball, drink coffee, and dutifully serve the needs of her twenty-two pound Maine Coon cat, Angus.