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Biography

Peter O’Malley is a cellist from Charleston, South Carolina, currently pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Melissa Kraut. He was the 2023 recipient of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra League David and Karen Stahl College Scholarship, the inaugural winner of the Emily Remington Music Scholarship, and has received several scholarships from the Charleston Music Club. In 2025 he was a member of CIM’s Advanced String Quartet Program.

 

Peter has studied chamber music in masterclass and private coachings with members of the Emerson, Orion, Miró, Pacifica, and Artemis string quartets, and has attended festivals including Académie du Domaine Forget de Charlevoix, the Castleman Quartet Program, and the Hilton Head Chamber Music Institute. He has played in masterclasses for such distinguished musicians as Midori, Xavier Foley, and Michelle Cann, amongst others. Recently, he has performed in cello sections of the Hilton Head Symphony, Firelands Symphony, and Cleveland Pops Orchestra.

Solo repertoire

  • Bach Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007

  • Bach Cello Suite No. 2, BWV 1008

  • Bach Cello Suite No. 3, BWV 1009

  • Bach Cello Suite No. 4, BWV 1010

  • Bach Cello Suite No. 5, BWV 1011

  • Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5/2

  • Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69

  • Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102/1

  • Beethoven 7 Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen,” WoO 46

  • Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38

  • Bruch Kol Nidrei, Op. 47

  • Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

  • Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb/1

  • Lalo Cello Concerto in D Minor, mvt. 1

  • Mahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen, arr. for cello

  • Mendelssohn Lied ohne Worte, Op. 109

  • Paganini Variations on a Theme by Rossini “Mosè Fantasia,” MS 23

  • Perkinson Lamentations for Solo Cello, mvt. 1: “Fuguing Tune”

  • Piazzolla Le Grand Tango

  • Popper High School of Cello Playing, Op. 73: #1-23, 26, 27, 32

  • Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33

  • Schubert Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, mvt. 1

  • Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40

  • Simon Between Worlds (2019)

  • Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

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orchestraL experience

Cleveland Pops Orchestra (Substitute Section Cello, 2025)

Firelands Symphony Orchestra (Substitute Section Cello, 2024-2025)

Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra (Substitute Section Cello, 2024)

Cleveland Institute of Music Symphony Orchestra (2023-2025)

North Charleston Pops Orchestra (Substitute Section Cello, 2023)

Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra (2023)*

Charleston School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonietta (2019-2023)*

 

*Denotes Principal Placement

Chamber music performances

  • Beethoven Duet in E-Flat Major “Eyeglasses,” WoO 32

  • Beethoven Clarinet Trio in B-Flat Major “Gassenhauer,” Op. 11

  • Beethoven String Quartet No. 4,  Op. 18/4

  • Beethoven String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59/1, mvt. 1

  • Beethoven String Quartet  No. 10 “Harp,” Op. 74

  • Beethoven String Quartet No. 11 “Serioso,” Op. 95

  • Beethoven Piano Trio No. 7 in B-Flat Major “Archduke,” Op. 97

  • Boccherini String Quintet in C Major

  • Dvořák Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81

  • Dvořák Piano Trio No. 4, “Dumky,” Op. 90

  • Dvořák String Quartet No. 12, “American,” Op. 96

  • V. Fung String Quartet No. 1, mvts. 1 & 3

  • Gnattali Sonata for Guitar and Cello

  • Halvorsen Passacaglia for Violin and Cello

  • Haydn String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20/2, mvt. 1

  • Haydn String Quartet No. 62 in C Major, “Emperor,” Op. 76/3

  • Haydn String Quartet No. 63 in B-Flat Major, “Sunrise,” Op. 76/4

  • Hummel Piano Trio in F Major

  • Janáček String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata"

  • Montgomery “Strum” for String Quintet

  • Mozart String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, K. 157

  • Mozart Sonata for Bassoon and Cello in B-Flat Major, K. 292

  • Mozart String Quartet No. 21 in D Major, K. 575

  • Mendelssohn String Octet, Op. 20, mvt. 1, 4

  • Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13

  • Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44/1

  • Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49, mvt. 1

  • Puccini “Crisantemi” for String Quartet

  • Popper Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano, Op. 66

  • Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92 “Kabardinian”

  • Rachmaninov String Quartet

  • Ravel String Quartet in F Major

  • Rossini Duo for Cello and Bass

  • Schubert Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 “Trout”

  • Schubert String Quintet in C Major, D. 956, mvt. 1

  • Schumann Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47, mvt. 1, 2

  • Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67

  • Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110

  • C. Singleton “Testimony” for String Quartet

  • Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor “From My Life”

  • Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70, mvt. 1

  • Walker String Quartet No. 1 “Lyric”

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