Teaching

Flute
Musicianship
Careers in Music

Research Interests

Contemporary Flute Repertoire

Education

B. A. Syracuse University (1988)
M. Mus. Peabody Conservatory (1991)
Performance Diploma – Peabody Conservatory (1993)
D.M.A. University of California, San Diego

Bio

As a champion of contemporary music, Dr. Lisa Cella has performed throughout the United States and abroad. She is Artistic Director of San Diego New Music and a founding member of its resident ensemble NOISE. With NOISE she has performed across the country premiering works of young composers. NOISE was also a featured ensemble at the Acousmania Festival in Bucharest, Romania in May of 2004, an invited ensemble for the Pacific Rim Festival at the University of California, Santa Cruz in May of 2005 and in residence at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 2007. Dr. Cella is a co-director of the soundON Festival of Modern Music in San Diego and NOISE is its resident ensemble.

Dr. Cella is a founding member of the flute duo inHale, a group dedicated to developing challenging and experimental repertoire for the flute duo.  inHale was an invited ensemble at the National Flute Association Convention in San Diego in August of 2006 and has performed over the last three years in Italy, Virgina, New York City, and Los Angeles. She is also a member of C2, a touring flute and cello duo that has held residencies at Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.  She is a founding member of UMBC’s faculty contemporary music ensemble, Ruckus.

Dr. Cella  received her Applied Bachelors in Music with a dual concentration in Psychology from Syracuse University under the tutelage of John Oberbrunner. She then received a Master of Music degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland where she studied with Robert
Willoughby. Ms. Cella received a DMA in contemporary flute performance at the University of California, San Diego while studying with John Fonville.  While in Baltimore, she was the winner of the 1992 Washington Flute Fair Young Artist Competition and founded the flute and guitar duo, Adesso!, which was a finalist in the Baltimore Chamber Competition. A dedicated performer of contemporary music, she was a member of the Baltimore based contemporary ensemble Polaris in 1993. She attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 1993 and was a fellowship member of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival for two summers. She was the founding member of the ensemble Sounding, a contemporary quartet (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion) that had its origins in the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. She has performed many solo recitals with the most recent being Stanford University and the University of Hong Kong. She has premiered many works and performed at festivals and conventions around the country. She has performed with SONOR (the faculty ensemble of UCSD), the ensemble SIRIUS, and in various concert series and festivals in the San
Diego area. Currently, she is on the faculty of Soundscape, a festival of new music in Pavia, Italy.