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Laurie Haines Reese was born on December 3, 1961 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A sojourn to Miami, Florida she studied at the University of Miami~Coral Gables, earning a Bachelor in Music Performance, then a Master of Music Performance degree from the University of Southern California~Los Angeles, she studied the advanced classical cello repertoire with Eleanor Schoenfeld.

She played both classical & jazz, performing regularly with Ira Sullivan & Strings Attached. She also free-lanced extensively, playing in various symphony orchestras, doing studio work and working with a string quartet & a flute quartet.

Following her graduate work in Los Angeles, she went to Maui to work full-time as a professional musician. While there, she co-founded a trio called Chamber Jazz Maui, along with Jazlynn Woods & Tim O’Hara, that performed a variety of repertoire “from Bach to Beatles.” From there, she spent six months in Seattle, before heading back home to Pennsylvania where she has remained and co-founded The Reese Project with her husband Tom reese..

Adept and equally comfortable in the recording studio and on stage, Laurie has been performing professionally since she was seventeen years old. She has been nominated for a Grammy and recorded with several bands. Cellist Laurie Reese continues her session work..

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