Dr. Alice Ann M. O'Neill

Dr. Alice Ann M. O’Neill has enjoyed being a cellist for 44 years and continues to perform chamber music and solo concerts regularly. She also spent many happy years performing in professional orchestras and opera orchestras in Boston, Miami, Baltimore/Washington, Illinois/Iowa and in Ohio. She finds joy making music and continues to work on her lifetime goal of performing every work for cello.

Her passion for playing the cello is rivaled only by her love of training Suzuki Cello Teachers and teaching cello Suzuki families at the Cincinnati Cello School in Cincinnati, Ohio. She teaches many teachers private lessons on-line and in-person to help deepen their playing and teaching abilities. Dr. O’Neill also trains Suzuki Cello Teachers at institutes and workshops throughout the US and Canada. Her cello students have appeared on NPR’s “From the Top,” and won top prizes at the St. Paul’s String Quartet and Fischoff chamber music competitions. Several of her cello students have continued their studies at schools such as Rice University-Shepherd School of Music, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, Catholic University of America, Aspen Music Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, Indiana University, Harvard University, and the Juilliard School in New York City.

She is a Catholic nun and member of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati.