Jon Silpayamanant is a cellist and composer in New Albany. He is a graduate in cello performance in 1996 at the DePauw University School of Music. A versatile musician, he has since tour and performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician. Performances have included appearances Grammy Award winners Yo-Yo Ma, Ray Price, and Hazzan Mike Stein. Silpayamanant has also appeared with late Miles Davis’ tabla player, Badal Roy and his Jazz combo as well as a number of world music, chamber ensembles, and multi-media music projects he’s co-founded. Silpayamanant’s compositions and sound art has been featured in the UK on Channel 4 as part of Objective Productions programming; at the Vilnius Art Academy in Lithuania; on Açık Radyo in Istanbul; at Culture Fix in New York City, as well as several venues throughout the US. His recent commissions include electro-acoustic compositions for the currently touring Diverse Universe Performance Festival Nordic-Baltic Tour in Estonia and Finland for dancer, Christine Olson, and scores for several productions of Chicago based Commedia Beauregard Theatre’s “Bard Fiction” and “A Klingon Christmas Carol.”