Heather Vorwerck is the principal cellist with the Bach Collegium San Diego. She is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, where she studied with Catharina Meints and Peter Rejto and received the E. Russell Award for Excellence in Historical Performance. She earned an MFA in cello performance at Mills College, where she was active in the new-music scene, and studied at the Royal Conservatory in the Netherlands with Jaap ter Linden and Anneke Pols. Vorwerck has performed with Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, Tesserae, Musica Angelica and Agave Baroque. In 2001 she was the viola da gamba soloist for the Rotterdam Baroque Orchestra’s production of Bach’s St. John Passion. She can be heard on the experimental-rock studio recording The Happy End Problem with Fred Frith. In San Diego she enjoys playing fiddle with the indie-country band Ypsitucky, which was formed in 2015.