As a cellist known for her “solidity and verve” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Molly Aronson enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, and educator. She has performed across the U.S. and internationally with highlight engagements including performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, the Embassy Series (Washington, DC), Chamber Players International (New York), the Luzerne Festival Series, Chateau Festival in Paris and Berlin, among many others.

As a proponent of new music, Molly frequently premieres, performs, and records music by contemporary composers. She has worked directly with influential composers such as Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Moravec, Guggenheim Fellow Felipe Salles, Shelley Washington, and Saad Hadad. Molly has performed on long standing series like Bargemusic: Here and Now, New York Composers Circle, Fordham University at Lincoln Center Concerts, Composer’s Concordance,and  the Composer’s Voice. She works frequently with the American Composer’s Alliance to record chamber music, including the previously undiscovered Hall Overton String Trio to be released in the spring of 2023. In the past two years Molly collaborated one-on-one with composers Nicholas Virzi as well as Spencer Snyder, respectively culminating in two new solo cello works written for and premiered by her: “Riverdaughter (2021)” and “Variations (2022).” 

Molly has been guest principal cello with the New York Chamber Players, Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, Garden State Philharmonic, Glens Falls Symphony, and performed in the cello sections of the American Contemporary Orchestra, Monteux Festival Orchestra, Savannah Philharmonic, Washington Opera Society, Long Island Concert Orchestra, and New York Metamorphosis Ensemble. Solo feature performances include the Valley Winds, Holyoke Civic Symphony, Interlochen Choir, Purchase Symphony Orchestra, Opus One Chamber Orchestra, and New York Virtuosi Orchestra. 

Not limited to the realm of classical music, Molly has performed with popular artists including the Eagles, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, and Michael Bublé at distinguished venues such as Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden. She has worked with Grammy-award winning producers and engineers to record on albums with many classical, jazz, and pop musicians. In addition to her own solo and chamber recordings, she can be heard on the Naxos Label and movie soundtracks for Warner Brothers and Sundance films. She enjoys exploring the cello in other styles of performance, not limited to jazz, traditional South American music, the American Songbook, and Klezmer, and she has recorded and frequently performs with the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.

Using music as a vehicle for positive change, Molly devotes part of her career to giving back. She performs in nursing homes and dementia wards, engages in giving performance workshops at schools, has organized multiple fundraisers for causes related to Autism, and has toured across the country with Eric Genuis’ Concerts for Hope, performing piano trio music for prisoners in maximum security state prisons. As a music educator, she believes that opportunity begins with exposure and accessibility, and she aligns herself with organizations and patrons that support young musicians in need. To that end, she will ensure that anyone wishing to study and advance will have the means to do so. 

Molly is currently on faculty at Bloomingdale School of Music, serves as part of the BSM Music Advancement Program, and maintains a private studio of cellists. Her students are competition winners, have been admitted to some of the preeminent youth orchestras in New York, and have been accepted to music programs at Boston Conservatory, NYU, Aaron Copland School of Music, Purchase College Conservatory of Music, and Queens College.

Molly received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Master of Music from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music. Her primary teachers include Astrid Schween, Julia Lichten, and Eugene Moye.