About

Camden Archambeau

Camden Archambeau is a cellist and conductor based in New York City. Recent appearances include concerts at Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, Steinway Hall, the Neue Galerie, Millbrook Music Salon. He has presented recital series at the Metropolitan Opera Club and the Signet Society. In the 2023-24 season, he served as Artist-in-Residence at Harvard's Lowell House and received the St. Botolph Club Emerging Artist Award and the Robert Levin Prize for his work as a cellist and conductor.

He has completed residencies at Music@Menlo, Avaloch Farm, the Stauffer Center, the Perlman Music Program, and Bowdoin Festival Fellowship Program. He was a finalist in the 2025 Juilliard Cello Concerto Competition, performing Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante in Paul Hall. Camden has served as Principal Cellist of the Juilliard Orchestra, New York String Orchestra, and Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra and has been active with the Charleston Symphony and New York Classical Players.

Camden is an assistant conductor and chamber music coach at Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and was the director of Harvard's Bach Society Orchestra. He holds a B.A. in History from Harvard and previously studied with Joel Krosnick, Paul Katz, Sieun Lin, and Adam Grabois. He studies with David Finckel and Nina Lee at the Juilliard School. He plays on a Becker cello on generous loan from the Colburn Foundation.