Aneta Otreba, Cello, Fourth Chair, received her Doctor of Musical Arts in Cello Performance from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was awarded an ensemble assistantship and studied with Professor Evelyn Elsing and members of the Guarneri String Quartet. She studied cello at the Academy of Music in Katowice with Pawel Glombik and chamber music with Marek Moś, and later completed her master’s degree at Towson University under Professor Cecylia Barczyk.
Aneta has been a member of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra since 2003. She has also performed with Concert Artists of Baltimore, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony (Florida), the Lancaster Symphony, and the Washington Summer Opera. She was accepted into the Hyogo Performing Orchestra in Japan and has won first place in the Baltimore Music Club Competition, the Liberman Competition, and the Peggy Friedman Gordon Music Competition.
Dr. Otreba has served as a cello section coach at the Baltimore String Orchestra Camp and as cello and chamber music faculty at the Siena Summer Session for Music and Arts at Siena University in Italy. She maintains a private studio in the Towson area, where her students have been selected to perform with the All-State Junior and Senior Orchestras and in Side-by-Side performances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.