Brian Hodges, Cello

Cellist Brian Hodges performs on modern cello, Baroque cello and viola da gamba. He is the author of ‘A Survey of Solo Works for the Violoncello’ and ‘Cello Secrets’, and has contributed regularly to The Strad and Strings magazines. Brian is the principal cellist of the Boise Baroque Orchestra and a founding member of the Pendulum Early Music Ensemble. As a concerto soloist, he has appeared with the Oklahoma Baroque Orchestra, Boise Baroque Orchestra, the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, and the Boise State University Orchestra. With his wife, pianist Betsi Hodges, he has given recitals across the United States and Italy.

Brian is currently Professor of Cello and Coordinator of Chamber Music at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. Before joining the faculty at BSU, he was on the faculties of the Townsend School of Music at Mercer University in Georgia, Spring Arbor University and Albion College. He received his BM degree and MM degree from the Eastman School of Music, and his DMA from the University of North Carolina Greensboro.