Jeffrey Zeigler

American cellist Jeffrey Zeigler specializes in contemporary music and performed for eight years with the Kronos Quartet. He is also a significant educator. Zeigler took up the cello at age eight. His family was not musical, and when he agreed to take lessons, he did not even know what a cello was. However, he warmed to the instrument, especially after acquiring a cassette tape of cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing Haydn's cello concerts. Zeigler attended the Eastman School of Music as an undergraduate, graduating in 1995, and earned a master's degree at the Shepherd School of Music at...