Anneke Schaul Yoder - Green Age (2023)

Anneke Schaul-Yoder performs in both period-instrument and modern ensembles at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the 92nd Street Y, and other venues in New York and beyond.

Anneke performs as solo continuo cellist with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Morningside Opera Company, BalletNext, and numerous other ensembles, and as principal cellist of the Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra. Her performances of the Bach Solo Suites have been featured at the Bronxville Bach Festival and the Music on Market Series. Anneke is Artistic Director and cellist for SIREN Baroque, the internationally acclaimed all-female early music ensemble, as well as its subset, the soprano/continuo Suore Trio, which aims to research and record a comprehensive survey of works by 17th-century Italian nuns. She is a member of Skid Rococo, a group with soprano and lute that performs the derelict and touching songs of 18th-century Sweden and France; the Piano Music & Song Trio, a trumpet/cello/piano trio that reorchestrates and improvises over art songs; Eudemonia, which presents eclectic programs of chamber music for flute, cello, and piano; and also the Queens Consort, the borough of Queens’s first early music ensemble. Anneke has recordings on the System Dialing, Island, Naxos, Bridge, and 3rd Generation labels; she has recorded with the Lumineers, the Sway Machinery, and members of Arcade Fire, TV on the Radio, and Antibalas, as well as singer/songwriters such as Jade Bird and Donna Lewis. With the Britten Centenary Quartet, Anneke presented all of Benjamin Britten’s string quartets at Lincoln Center throughout 2013, culminating in a marathon concert of his complete quartet works. She has been a featured guest on A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast live from Town Hall in New York, and has appeared on Lincoln Center’s “American Songbook” series, televised on PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center. In 2009, Anneke was granted a fellowship for a four-month intensive study of Bach and Britten solo suites at the Banff Centre. She studied with Julia Lichten and Marcy Rosen at Yale University, the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, and the Mannes College of Music. A strong proponent of diverse and unconventional programs, Anneke admits that her first musical obsessions, Bach cantatas and Haydn string quartets, remain her strongest.

Anneke lives on a farmstead in the Catskill Mountains with her partner Alexander and their two children. She plays on a French cello from 1713 by Jacques Boquay.