Lily Moerschel is a freelance cellist based in Pittsburgh. She serves as principal cellist of the Johnstown Symphony and acting associate principal cellist of the West Virginia Symphony, and performs regularly with the Wheeling Symphony, Butler Symphony, and Erie Philharmonic. She is also on the faculty of the Western Pennsylvania Center for the Arts in Verona.
Moerschel completed her undergraduate studies at Bard College, where she earned dual Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Cello Performance. While at Bard, she was awarded the Mischa Schneider Scholarship and the Leonore Latimer Award, and was inducted into Psi Chi, the international honor society for psychology. She completed her Master’s degree in Cello Performance at Carnegie Mellon University in 2024.
Outside of music, Lily enjoys reading, long-distance running, and studying French.
