Effective period / Period of releases: 2016 - 2018

American cellist specializing in improvisation and avant-garde music. Based in Chicago, he performs extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, wearing the hats of composer and performance artist, and appearing in a variety of contexts including chamber orchestras, free improvised settings, performance art and electro-acoustic music. Teddy is the touring cellist for bands Primus and Iron And Wine, and has performed, toured, and recorded with dozens of artists, including Glen Hansard, Father John Misty, Third Eye Blind, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble N_JP, Chicago Sinfonietta, and Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble. For his current solo project “Some Other Fields”, he commissioned, recorded, and performed new works for unaccompanied cello by Jim O'Rourke, Glenn Kotche, Richard Reed Parry, Gene Coleman, and Michael Beharie. “Some Other Fields” will be released in 2018.