Cellist Erica Wise enjoys a versatile career, as a chamber and orchestral musician, soloist, and teacher. Actively engaged with the contemporary music of our time, she has given numerous world and Spanish premieres both as soloist and as a founding member of FUNKTION, a contemporary chamber ensemble based in Barcelona. She has served as principal cellist for conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas and Seiji Ozawa and has toured with the New World Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and is an artistic advisor for Da Camera. She received her Bachelors of Music from the Peabody Conservatory and Masters from New England Conservatory. As a Harriet Haley Woolley scholar, she studied baroque cello in Paris. She is currently professor of cello and chamber music at Conservatori Superior Liceu in Barcelona.