Elizabeth Mendoza -- Cello

ELIZABETH MENDOZA, cello, received her Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory and her Master of Music degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory. She currently plays with Philadelphia’s Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra and the Chanticleer String Quartet, and is principal cellist with the Pennsylvania Sinfonia and the New Jersey Bay-Atlantic Symphony. Previously she performed as principal cellist with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and with the Ann Arbor and Flint Symphony Orchestras and the Michigan Opera Theater, where she also served as director of orchestral and instrumental chamber music at Rudolph Steiner High School in Ann Arbor.