Eliot Bailen has an active career as an Artistic Director, cellist, composer and teacher. Principal cello of the New York Chamber Ensemble, New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Orchestra New England, New York Bach Artists, Teatro Grattacielo and the New Choral Society, Mr. Bailen is also Founder and Artistic Director of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble whose performances the New York Times has described as “the Platonic ideal of a chamber music concert.” (July, 2005). He has recently been appointed Artistic Director of the New York Chamber Ensemble and is Founder and Artistic director of Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom in New York, now in its tenth year. He appears frequently with such orchestras as the Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York City Opera and Ballet, American Symphony, New Jersey Symphony and the Oratorio Society of New York and is Assistant-Principal cello of the Stamford Symphony. This fall he will be solo cellist with the new Broadway show, ‘Allegiance.’ As a composer, Mr. Bailen’s commissions include an Octet (“For Ellen”) for 3 winds and strings (2013); a Double Concerto for Flute and Cello (2012) commissioned by the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra. His work, Perhaps a Butterfly, for Soprano, child soprano, flute and string trio premiered in 2011 and Saratoga Sextet, commissioned by the Saratoga Chamber Players, premiered in June, 2014 (“The crowd loved it!” writes the Schenectady Daily Gazette). Recently Mr. Bailen’s musical, The Tiny Mustache, received a second grant for further development from the Omer Foundation after its successful debut. Mr. Bailen received over twenty-five commissions for his "Song to Symphony" project, an extended school residency program that presents children's original musicals in an orchestral setting (subject of a NY Times feature article Sept. 2006). This project was recently awarded a special Alumni Grant from the Yale School of Music. Mr. Bailen received his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) from Yale University and is on the cello and chamber music faculty at Columbia University and Teachers College. Eliot lives in New York City with his wife Susan, their twin sons David and Daniel and their daughter Julia.