Denielle Wilson, cello
Denielle Wilson is a musician and educator from Lithonia, Georgia, currently in her third season as a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She previously played in the cello sections of the Charlotte and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras.
Her undergraduate degree was completed at Northwestern University in 2017, where she double-majored in cello performance and music education. She performed as cello fellow and co-principal in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and received her master's degree as a diversity fellow with the Cincinnati Symphony and the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. Her musical mentors have included Hans Jørgen Jensen, Alan Rafferty, Wei Yu, Joel Dallow, Abraham Feder, Robert DeMaine and Nan Kimberling. She has spent summers at the Meadowmount School of Music, Bowdoin Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and School and the Grant Park Music Festival. Wilson is an alumna of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Talent Development Program, where she studied with ASO cellist Joel Dallow for five years.
Recent solo performances include appearances with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She has been a string orchestra teacher, sectionals coach, and taught privately at elementary, middle and high schools in the metropolitan Chicago, Charlotte, and Atlanta areas. She is currently an instructor at the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (YOLA) Summer Festival, and a cello and piano instructor at the Lovett School. She plays in a piano trio with her siblings, Danya and Cliff Jr. (called the Wilson Trio), and they enjoy sharing a variety of music with their local community.
