Yari Bond

Cellist Yari Bond is well known for her wonderful gift and ability to develop, support and nurture talented young people, helping them to evolve into mature and creative musicians. For the past 20 years she has taught at the Special Music School at the Kaufman Music Center in NYC and at Columbia University. She is the founder of Concerts Con Brio, a concert series celebrating young artists, celebrating its 10th anniversary season. Yari’s students are frequent competition winners, performing at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and NPR’s From the Top, and have participated with organizations such as the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Music Program, and attended summer camps including Kinhaven, Greenwood, Bowdoin, Lyra, Meadowmount and Perlman Music Program. Her students have gone on to attend The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University, Oberlin, Harvard, Yale, Rice and Brown Universities.

A great lover and champion of chamber music, Yari has both performed and taught chamber music her whole life as a musician. As a founding member, artistic director and cellist of the Carnegie Chamber Players and the Thurnauer Chamber Music Society, she designed and implemented Chamber Music America Residency programs in Vermont and New Jersey. She has performed with numerous ensembles in the New York area, including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Yari performs as a soloist and chamber musician, and has toured as an orchestral musician across the United States, Europe and Japan. She has also performed at many festivals including Caramoor, Yale at Norfolk, Yellow Barn, Lyra, Aspen Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival, Bach Aria Festival, New England Bach Festival, and the Basically Bach Festival in Alaska. A champion of contemporary music, she has premiered and recorded the music of many contemporary composers. Yari holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from The Juilliard School where she studied with Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins. Other teachers have included David Wells and Robert Gardner. She also participated in Master Classes with Aldo Parisot, Janos Starker, Anner Bylsma and Timothy Eddy.