Brooks Whitehouse
Phone: (336)770-3354
Email: whitehouseb@ncarts.edu

Cellist Brooks Whitehouse enjoys an active career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. As a soloist he has appeared with the New England Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Nashua, New Brunswick, Billings, North Arkansas, Wichita Falls and Owensboro symphonies, and has appeared in recital throughout the United States. His performances have been broadcast on NPR’s “Performance Today,” WQXR's "McGraw-Hill Young Artist Showcase," WNYC's "Around New York," and the Australian and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation networks. He has recorded for the Centaur, CRI, and Innova labels.

Dr. Whitehouse is a founding member of the Guild Trio, a group that won both the "USIA Artistic Ambassador" and "Chamber Music Yellow Springs" competitions, and has held artist-in-residence positions at Stony Brook University, the Guild Hall in East Hampton, N.Y., and The Tanglewood Music Center. With the trio he has performed and held master classes throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Norway, Turkey, Croatia, Serbia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Portugal, France and Australia.

As guest artist Dr. Whitehouse has appeared with the American Chamber Players, the New Millennium Ensemble, the JU Piano Trio, the Seacliffe Chamber Players, the Atelier Ensemble and the New Zealand String Quartet. He also appears regularly with the Apple Hill Chamber Players as part of its summer chamber music festival. Recently he appeared at the Kennedy Center with Selma Gokcen and Bernard Greenhouse as part of a tribute to the legacy of Pablo Casals.

This fall, Dr. Whitehouse joins the faculty at the North Carolina School of the Arts. In addition, he is the founder and director of the Cello Celebrations at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. At UNC-G, his Greenhouse Celebration of 2005 brought together participants from 20 states, five foreign countries, and 22 conservatories and universities to celebrate the living legend of Bernard Greenhouse. His next celebration, in February of 2007, will honor the extraordinary work and career of the cellist Laszlo Varga.