Stephanie Winters

Stephanie Winters is an American New York-based cellist with a wide-ranging career as a keynote speaker, facilitator and coach. Winters creates leadership-themed programs and has performed for organizations such as Lincoln Center, The World Bank, United Nations Development Program and Harvard University and acts as a workshop facilitator. She has performed and recorded with various musicians including Richie Havens, Enya, Dar Williams, Anne Murray, Michael Jones, Paula Cole, Corrine Bailey Rae and The O'Jays. She has played on more than 100 CDs and toured extensively in the North America, Europe and Southeast Asia.

Winters began her cello studies as a fourth grader in the Levittown public school music program and then attended the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School. Winters earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in cello performance from the State University of New York (Purchase College Conservatory of Music) and a Master of Arts from Columbia University in Music Education. She has taught instrumental performance at the New School (1987–93) and privately.

From 1991-99, Winters performed in the alternative-folk duo The Nudes with Walter Parks. The Nudes released three CD albums: The Nudes (1993), Velvet Sofa (1996), and Boomerang (1998), and licensed recordings to an HBO series. Billboard magazine described the duo's first CD as unlike "anything else on the airwaves."

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