"...outstanding... every note has meaning rather as a look or a touch does; the resulting conversations she has with the music are endlessly absorbing... Her subjective narrative suggests the freedom with which Pablo Casals brought the music back to life a century ago." — Laurence Vittes, Gramophone

Cellist Dr. Sophie Webber is an internationally acclaimed soloist, chamber musician, arts activist, and educator, praised as "an exceptional and creative musician" (Interlude) and "sublime to hear" (Time Out Chicago).

She has released three critically acclaimed albums: Escape: Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello (2018); B2C: Bach to Choir (2020), pairing Bach's Cello Suites Nos. 1 and 3 with Sophie's own choral accompaniment — wordless vocal writing by former King's Singer Phil Lawson, performed by the Chicago Choir of the Church of Ascension — an arrangement choirs on three continents have since taken up; and Roots: Transcriptions of Romantic Works for Cello and Piano (2022), with pianist Ines Irawati.

Her former teachers include Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Janos Starker, and Helga Winold at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and Richard Markson at Trinity College of Music, London, where she graduated with First Class Honors and the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize for cello.

A dedicated educator, Sophie has served on the cello faculty at Southeast Missouri State University, the Jacobs School of Music Summer Clinic, Oxford Cello School, Trinity College of Music Junior Department, Lake Forest College, and the Music Institute of Chicago. A keen music theorist and pianist, she spent four years as a Music Theory Instructor at Indiana University and is frequently invited to give guest masterclasses at universities across the United States. She has taught online cello lessons and classes for the past five years, and in 2024 launched Dr Sophie Cello Lab, an online course offering group and individual instruction for cellists of all ages and levels — beginner through professional — alongside international guest clinicians and a strong community component.

Sophie's students have served as section and principal cellists in the Chicago and San Diego Youth Symphony Orchestras, placed in competitions including State Youth Concerto Competitions, the Society of American Musicians Competition, the MidWest Young Artists Discover National Chamber Music Competition, the Confucius Chinese Fine Arts Society Competition, and the Walgreen National Concerto Competition, and gone on to study cello performance at some of the nation's top music schools.

In 2009, she founded Fused Muse Ensemble, an Illinois nonprofit dedicated to amplifying voices too often left unheard through music and mixed media.

Sophie's music has been featured on BBC Radio 3, Southern California's Classical KUSC 91.5FM, Chicago's WFMT 98.7FM, Seattle's King FM 98.1, Iowa Public Radio, Tampa Bay's WUSF Public Media, Rochester's WXXI Classical 91.5, North Carolina's WCPE The Classical Station 89.7FM, and Portland's All Classical 89.9 KQAC FM, among others.

Most recently, Sophie appeared as a guest artist at the Festival Internacional de Violoncello (FIV León) in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, one of Latin America's leading cello festivals.

For more information about her projects and upcoming activities, please visit www.sophiewebber.com.