Killer Improv Cello for $150

About Me:

Justin Lepard is an innovative, genre-defying cello virtuoso. Originally from Nebraska, he studied with Juilliard alumni Greg Beaver of the former Chiara Quartet, as well as studying jazz with trumpet faculty Darryl White. In college he found a niche playing contemporary classical music, and with that won an audition to play in the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland, which subsequently led to a series of short tours in Europe. Always a musician who wanted music to feel good and not just be intellectualized, Justin continued with his own endeavors composing, producing, creating content, and developing jazz improvisation skills as the core of his cello playing. He spent the previous 6 years living in LA, where he got some cool opportunities to play in movies like The Invisible Man (screen credit), and Bad Boys III (as part of an RMA orchestra at Warner Bros). But a love of vanlife and the outdoors led him and his wife to venture up the coast more and more, and are now in demand private event musicians in the Portland area (Alexis plays violin). Justin’s YouTube channel (Justin Lepard Psychedelic Cello) continues to grow as he pushes the boundaries of cello and musical storytelling for an online audience.

​What You Get:

1. Great sound, arrangement, and recording engineering you'd expect from a professional

2. Immense creativity towards your project

3. Style tailored to your piece - can send any reference track to match
4. Easy-to-mix arrangements, sensitive to the frequency spectrum of the project
5. No need to edit anything, and easy to load

6. The benefit of a real tube preamp (a natural mic is used too)
6. Unique improvisation ability for 20th century popular music forms
7. Small or large string ensemble size (cost scales with amount of required overdubs)
8. Mixing and mastering option if you have a string-only composition

Finally, I feel it's helpful to say I'm very interested in wave physics and how that affects music production. As such, I like to think my parts are uniquely effective at helping a production come to fruition through cello parts that enhance the total resonance of the song. This influences everything from room setup, mic'ing, gain stage, arrangement, performance, and guaranteed phase alignment between section parts.

Have something inventive, creative, or experimental in mind? Hit me with it!