Tobias Werner has been cellist with the Garth Newel Music Center since 1999, and performs more than 50 concerts each year with the Garth Newel Chamber Players. Concert tours have taken him throughout the US, New Zealand, France, Spain, Germany, Ireland, and Italy. He has performed at such festivals as the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, Open Chamber Music Trossingen, Villa Musica Mainz, the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop, the Oberstdorfer Musiksommer Festival, the Vail Valley Bravo! Colorado Music Festival, in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Strathmore Hall, and in recital at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. In addition, Tobias is a member of the Contemporary Music Forum, ensemble-in-residence at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the US, France, Germany, and Romania, and recent performances have included the concertos of Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn, and Boccherini. He has recorded on the ECM, Darbringhaus & Grimm, Bayer Records, and Orfeo labels. Recent CD releases include Piano Quartets by Mozart, Brahms, Dvorak, and Martinu with the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, the Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach, and the Sonatas for Piano and Cello by L.v. Beethoven. Tobias studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany, and at Boston University. His teachers include Andres Diaz, Christoph Henkel, and Xavier Gagnepain. He plays on an 1844 J.F. Pressenda cello.