Cellist Sally Guenther graduated from Indiana University and The Juilliard School with her B.M. and M.M. degrees, studying with Janos Starker and Harvey Shapiro. After playing in several American orchestras including Syracuse, Cincinnati, and the Metropolitan Opera orchestras, she moved to Norway, where she served as alternating solo cellist in the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra for over twenty years. During that time she was an active soloist and chamber musician, and served as cello professor on the faculty of the Grieg Academy of Music in Bergen. She was also one of the founding members of the contemporary ensemble BIT 20 which tours and records extensively throughout Europe and Asia.
Guenther will be performing with Willy Sucre & Friends on November 14, 2010. |
In 2004 she settled in New Mexico with her artist husband, Janis Mintiks and their three Samoyeds. She has performed regularly with the