About Me

I’ve been passionate about music my whole life. Through my career, I have been sharing that passion with everyone I come across. Whether I am in modern or historical performance, or in helping pianists be able to better connect with their instruments, passion is at the forefront of my work.

Bio

Lily Schrantz is a cellist, viola da gamba player, and piano technician based in the American East Coast. Her performance career has taken her internationally performing as a featured soloist, continuo player, and ensemble member for many of the nation’s foremost orchestras. Versatility is one of Schrantz’s strengths, performing repertoire from the 15th century to the modern day on a variety of instruments, including modern and baroque cello, viola da gamba, and violone. Schrantz’s specialization in French music of the 17th and 18th century provides her work with a unique interpretation, informed by the meticulous details that fill the compositions of Lully, Marais, Forqueray, and their contemporaries. Schrantz received her training from some of America’s finest teachers in cello, viola da gamba, and piano technology. Schrantz studied cello and viola da gamba with Cathy Meints at Oberlin Conservatory, viola da gamba with Paolo Pandolfo, Josh Lee, and Sarah Cunningham, cello with Gregory Sauer at Florida State University and Paul Kushious of the Cleveland Orchestra, and piano and historical keyboard technology with John Cavanaugh and Robert Murphy at Oberlin Conservatory. Thanks to this rich heritage of training, Schrantz connects the work of previous generations to the audiences of today. Schrantz’s passion for her work is paramount, and she takes pride in her ambition to make every performance as stunning as the last.

“Schrantz’s passion for music can be heard in performance with the great amount of expression she gives to every note. Her studies in early and modern music has informed her style, allowing her to create an aural landscape that grasps the attention of audiences.”

— Cody Williams, bass teaching fellow at the University of North Texas and musician of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

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