A passionate educator, she teaches with Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Washington Heights Community Conservatory, and the Hunter College Symphony, alongside holding her own studio. Thea studied with Erika Duke at California Institute of the Arts, has a master’s from Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Fred Sherry, and an Artist Diploma from NYU where she studied pedagogy and performance with Marion Feldman.

Thea Mesirow

Thea Mesirow is an NYC-based cellist, educator, and collaborator. Most recently she traveled to Los Angeles for the US premiere of a piece by Karen Tanaka, served as cellist and NYC string leader for Japanese Breakfast, and performed a recital of new works by CUNY Graduate students, among other projects.

An advocate for new music, she was co-executive director and cellist of Quartet121, “a magnet for world premieres” (New York Music Daily), and was the cellist and co-artistic director of The Nouveau Classical Project. Currently, she is one half of the “hypnotic and engaging” (Cleveland Classical) Berrow Duo, and the co-creator of the Actualizing Communities Project. Her projects have been funded by Chamber Music America, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, and others. As a soloist and chamber musician, Thea has worked with composers such as Antoine Bueger, Reiko Fueting, and Sofia Gubaidulina, and performed at Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center Atrium, and Carnegie Hall, among others.