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Leigh Stuart has quickly established herself as a cellist who thrives in a variety of musical settings. She has appeared on the stages of major venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Bargemusic, B.B. King's, Carnegie Hall, Joe's Pub, The Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, The Knitting Factory, Le Poisson Rouge, The 92nd Street Y, The Nokia Theater, and Zankel Hall. Recent engagements include performances with Savion Glover at the Spoleto Festival in Italy, Sufjan Stevens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Jay-Z at Radio City Music Hall.
She has performed with numerous others including Beyonce, The Roots, Foxxy Brown, Sauce Money, Marty Wilson Piper (The Church), Oneida, My Brightest Diamond, and The Mahavishnu Project. Ms. Stuart is currently also a member of the Brooklyn-based acoustic, ambient ensemble, Bing and Ruth. No stranger to the television, film, and recording industry, Ms. Stuart has recently appeared as a cellist in the Warner Brothers film, August Rush, on CBS's Queens Supreme, for a music video with British pop star, Lucie Silvas, and in an episode of Law and Order: SVU, for which she also recorded Faure's Elegy. In addition, she has recorded for Cuneiform, and Rough Trade. Ms. Stuart holds her Bachelor of Music from the Hartt School and her Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music.
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