Rachel Henderson Freivogel, Cello

Rachel Henderson Freivogel is the founding and current cellist of the acclaimed Jasper String Quartet. Since the group’s inception in 2003, she has performed, recorded, and taught extensively, shaping the quartet’s distinctive voice and earning numerous accolades along the way. Honors include the 2024 CMA Album of the Year Award, the 2012 Cleveland Quartet Award, the 2016 Fischoff Educator Award, and top prizes at the Fischoff, Plowman, Yellow Springs, and Coleman Chamber Music Competitions. She is also a core member of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), an ensemble of leading chamber musicians committed to collective music-making at the highest level, and co-Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas and Jasper Chamber Concerts.

A passionate and sought-after educator, Ms. Freivogel is on the faculty of Temple University’s Center for Gifted Young Musicians and maintains a vibrant private teaching studio. Originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ms. Freivogel began cello studies at the age of four with her mother, Deborah Watts. She holds degrees in Cello Performance, Viola da Gamba, and Baroque Cello from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Darrett Adkins and Catharina Meints, and advanced degrees in String Quartet Performance from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and the Yale School of Music, under the mentorship of Norman Fischer and Clive Greensmith.