Anne Francis Bayless

Anne Francis Bayless is an American cellist.

Bayless grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and played the cello in a string quartet at the age of eight. She took cello lessons with Grace Field , Bruce Uchimura and Bonnie Hampton , studied at the Cleveland Instiute of Music with Richard Aaron and Alan Harris , and continued her training as an assistant to Paul Katz at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University . As a university teacher, she taught cello and chamber music at the Caine College of the Arts of Utah State University .

Bayless has been a member of the fry street quartet (with Robert Waters , Rebecca McFaul and Bradley Ottesen ) since 2000 , where she replaced Rebecca Thornblade . She has performed with the quartet at Carnegie Hall and at numerous music festivals such as the Schneider Series at the New School in New York, the Jewel Box Series in Chicago and the Chamber Music Columbus . The quartet's discography ranges from works by Haydn and Beethoven to Leoš Janáček and Ned Rorem to Laura Kaminsky and Libby Larsen . As a soloist, Bayless was a guest of the NOVA Chamber Music Series , where she played works for cello solo by Johann Sebastian Bach and Michael Hersch , the Fontana Summer Chamber Music Series , the Olympic Music Festival , the SummerFest La Jolla and in 2016 the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego. She is married to the violist Brant Bayless .

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• fry street quartet: Anne Francis Bayless, cello
• Utah State University - Department of Music: Anne Francis Bayless
• Anne Francis Bayless at Allmusic (English)
• Anne Francis Bayless at Discogs (English)