Here is where we would put a paragraph of exposition that tastefully threads links to the various pages on the website. Establishing facts like how Hilary Metzger is a professional cellist who lives in Paris and performs with the orchestra. Or how Metzger also teaches at notable institutions such as follows and has contributed to the academic research on cello pedagogy. All the while Metzger is committed to building community with musicians of all ages in France.

Hilary Metzger was born in New York City. She received her BA in musicology at Yale University while studying cello with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music, and her Masters and Doctorate in cello performance with Timothy Eddy at the Mannes College of Music and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  Thanks to a US government Fulbright grant, she studied baroque cello in France with David Simpson and Christophe Coin, receiving unanimous premier prix from the Paris Conservatory. Currently, she plays regularly with l’Orchestre des Champs Elysées (Philippe Herreweghe); Anima Eterna (Jos van Immerseel); Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet); Teatro Nuovo (Will Crutchfield and Jakob Lehmann); Opéra Fuoco (David Stern) and performs chamber music with members of these groups.

Ms Metzger is frequently invited to perform and lecture on issues of historical performance at institutions throughout Europe as well as in Asia and in the United States. She is on the faculty at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Villeurbanne near Lyon and teaches at the Jeune Orchestra Atlantique Masters degree program at Saintes and the Université of Poitiers. In 2020, she has a received a residency research grant from the Orpheus Institute in Ghent Belgium to study secco recitative realization by cellists in the 19th century.