Tyler DeVigal

Cellist Tyler DeVigal is an active performer and educator based in the Bay Area. He regularly plays with several orchestras, including Symphony San Jose, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Opera San Jose, Marin Symphony, and Santa Rosa Symphony. He is also the cellist of the Grammy-nominated crossover ensemble, Quartet San Francisco.

Tyler is a dedicated teacher and is on faculty at the Crowden School, where he takes great joy in sharing his love for the cello and chamber music with his students. Additionally, alongside his fiancée, violist Nao Kubota, Tyler co-directs the Emerging Artists Program at the Mendocino Music Festival.

Tyler received his musical training at the Crowden School, San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he earned his M.M. Prior to CIM, he attended Stanford University, where he earned his B.A. in Human Biology, with a focus on mental illness in the arts. Tyler’s mentors and teachers include Milly Rosner, Jonathan Koh, Stephen Harrison, Mark Kosower, Robert DeMaine, and Bonnie Hampton.