Ms. Perri S. Morris

Perri Morris studied cello with Lawrence Lesser, Ronald Feldman, and Aldo Parisot. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, a Master’s degree in Music Performance from U-Mass Amherst and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Mount Holyoke College. She has participated in music festivals at Tanglewood, Spoleto Festival of the Two Worlds, and The Waterloo Music Festival. Ms. Morris has been a member of the faculties at Mount Holyoke College, West Texas A&M, Keene State College and Westfield State College. She served as Assistant Principal Cello of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, (MA) for 19 years. Ms. Morris performs with the Vermont, Springfield, and Berkshire Symphonies, Opera North, and the New York Chamber Soloists. She is a guest faculty at the Chamber Music Conference at Bennington College and is the director of the strings program at the North Bennington Village School, the string teacher at The Pine Cobble Schiol in Williamstown, MA and has private teaching studios in Williamstown, MA and Bennington, VT. Her students range in age from 5 to 75.