Christopher Haritatos

Baroque Cello

Christopher Haritatos, baroque cello, holds degrees from the University of Chicago, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Eastman School of Music, and also studied with Jaap ter Linden as a Fulbright Scholar at the Akademie für Alte Musik in Bremen, Germany. He has performed with numerous early music ensembles throughout Europe, the US and Japan, including The City Musick, Dresdner Barockorchester, Das Neue Orchester, Tafelmusik, ARTEK, Dallas Bach Society, Concert Royal, New York Collegium, Context (Houston), and Pegasus, and has recorded with Fiori Musicali-Barockorchester Bremen, La Dolcezza, The Publick Musick, Apollo's Fire and Andrew Lawrence-King's "The Harp Consort." Chris also plays modern cello and is a member of the Austin Symphony and the Austin Lyric Opera Orchestra (where he has also served as acting principal and interim principal cellist). He has been a cello/bass coach for the Early Music program at the University of North Texas, and taught at Texas State University-San Marcos from 2003-09. In October 2009 he will join the cello section of the Rochester (NY) Philharmonic Orchestra.