Olivia Katz is a joyful, engaging, and dynamic cellist, improviser, and composer with a passionate interest in contemporary classical music. Olivia strives to create an interactive, inventive, and accessible environment in which the audience is encouraged to experience classical music, art, and beauty through a new lens. In addition to musicians and composers, Olivia collaborates with playwrights, singers, painters, actors, sculptors, and poets in multiple contexts and is dedicated to bringing artists’ visions to life. Currently in Boston, Olivia privately teaches many cello students in the greater-Boston area, regularly performs and records around the city and along the East Coast, is on the administrative board of New Music Mosaic, is the administrative assistant for the Boston-based contemporary ensemble Hinge Quartet, is a part-time chamber coach through the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, is the cellist in Moon Unit–a trio that specializes in free improvisation and contemporary works, and is the cellist in the Semiosis Quartet–a Boston-based string quartet dedicated to presenting a captivating and diverse contemporary classical repertoire. In 2024 Olivia received their Master of Music in Contemporary Classical Music Performance at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee under Rhonda Rider and David Russell, and in 2019 their Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance at the University of Puget Sound under Alistair MacRae.