Nan Kemberling

Nan Kemberling is a cellist, teacher, arranger and singer-songwriter in Atlanta. She studied with Martha Gerschefski and earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees as an Osher Scholar at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is principal cellist of the Atlanta Pops Orchestra and a founding member of Atlanta Celli, a cello quartet that plays rock, pop and classical music.

For more than twenty years she has taught mostly adult beginners, aged from their mid-20s to their mid-80s, and she leads an all-adult cello choir that meets monthly. She plays concertos, touring shows at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, nightclub gigs and masterclasses.