Profile

Cellist Timothy Stanley performs regularly with Northern California orchestras, symphonies, opera companies and musical theaters, as well as area baroque ensembles Sinfonia Spirituosa, Butte Baroque, and Sacramento Baroque Soloists. He is a founding member of Citywater, a modern chamber music sextet.

Timothy earned his Bachelor in Music degree from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and his Master’s in Cello Performance and California Teaching Credential from Sacramento State University, where his primary teachers were Dr. Andrew Smith and Andrew Luchansky. In addition to teaching private cello and violin lessons, he is the music director at W. E. Mitchell Middle School in Rancho Cordova. He is also on faculty at Sacramento State’s School of Music, where he teaches string pedagogy, music theory and musicianship, and runs the String Project, which provides low-cost music training to Sacramento-area elementary school children, while allowing undergraduate and graduate music students to refine their roles as professional string teachers.

When not behind his cello or in front of a room full of young musicians, Tim can be found racing triathlon of all distances, marathon and ultramarathon footraces, open water swim events, century bike rides or backpacking with his partner, flutist Cathie Apple and their wonderful two dogs Jake and Elwood.