Rachel Hsieh is a cellist with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the Lott Quartet, the quartet-in-residence at the University of New Orleans. She is also a member of the Father Carter String Quartet at Loyola University.
Rachel enjoys working with numerous movie, television, and recording artists, including Edgar Meyer, Maggie Koerner, Tyler Perry, Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, T-Ray, and Idina Menzel. She has appeared in television shows such as “NCIS: New Orleans," “On Becoming a God in Central Florida,” and "Sacrifice." She is a multi-year winner of Gambit Magazine’s Best Chamber Music Performance.
She has participated in numerous festivals and projects, including the Crescent City Chamber Music Festival, the Castleton Festival Orchestra with Lorin Maazel, the YouTube Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas, the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria, and the National Repertory Orchestra. She previously held a position with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra.
Rachel holds a bachelor’s degree in cello performance at the University of Michigan, where she studied with Erling Blöndal Bengtsson. She was the recipient of the Gregor Piatigorsky Scholarship at the Peabody Conservatory, where she earned a master’s degree and a performance diploma under the tutelage of Alan Stepansky, former associate principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic.
Rachel, a native of Flint, Michigan, lives in New Orleans. When she’s not performing or practicing, she can be found climbing at the New Orleans Boulder Lounge, working on her skateboard tricks, or cooking for her family.
Rachel enjoys working with numerous movie, television, and recording artists, including Edgar Meyer, Maggie Koerner, Tyler Perry, Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, T-Ray, and Idina Menzel. She has appeared in television shows such as “NCIS: New Orleans," “On Becoming a God in Central Florida,” and "Sacrifice." She is a multi-year winner of Gambit Magazine’s Best Chamber Music Performance.
She has participated in numerous festivals and projects, including the Crescent City Chamber Music Festival, the Castleton Festival Orchestra with Lorin Maazel, the YouTube Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas, the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria, and the National Repertory Orchestra. She previously held a position with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra.
Rachel holds a bachelor’s degree in cello performance at the University of Michigan, where she studied with Erling Blöndal Bengtsson. She was the recipient of the Gregor Piatigorsky Scholarship at the Peabody Conservatory, where she earned a master’s degree and a performance diploma under the tutelage of Alan Stepansky, former associate principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic.
Rachel, a native of Flint, Michigan, lives in New Orleans. When she’s not performing or practicing, she can be found climbing at the New Orleans Boulder Lounge, working on her skateboard tricks, or cooking for her family.
