Cellist & Composer / NYC
In his solo works—an alchemy of neoclassical, minimalism, noise, and drone—Brent Arnold draws from a lifelong meditation on the instrument’s inherent nature, and from musical traditions from every corner of the earth.
As a composer and arranger with hundreds of credits in recorded and live music, film, theater, dance, and opera, Arnold has worked with contemporaries including Arun Ramamurthy, Gelsey Bell, Dave Malloy, Steve Von Till, Wally Shoup, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Jessica Pavone, Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney, Drew McDowall, SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan), Zola Jesus, Randall Dunn, Lia Ouyang Rusli, DJ /rupture, and Hiro Kone.
In 2024, the opera Ali—co-written by Brent Arnold, Walid Ben Selim and Grey Filastine—premiered at the legendary opera house La Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium.
In 2021, Arnold orchestrated and conducted the performances of Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe’s score to Candyman (Universal Pictures), the critically acclaimed motion picture co-written by Jordan Peele.
2023 saw Arnold as an artist-in-residence at NYC’s esteemed arts incubator Pioneer Works.