STEPHANIE WINTERS is a
New York City-based professional cellist and award-winning nervous system coach who offers wellbeing coaching, keynotes, workshops, and concerts

Stephanie Winters has performed more than 3,000 concerts worldwide including Carnegie Hall in 2020 and a series of programs at Lincoln Center. This intense touring schedule led her to embrace techniques and lifestyle changes to transform her own health and well-being. Utilizing these strategies, she now coaches high-level professionals and their teams to go from stressed and overwhelmed to calm and productive, incorporating live cello music in all that she does.

Stephanie has presented at trainings for leading organizations including L'Oréal, American Express, the World Bank, Duke Corporate Education, and the National Institutes of Health.

Winters won the 2024 National Institutes of Health Director's Award for making remarkable strides in promoting staff wellbeing. In December 2021, The NIH awarded Stephanie’s coaching team the CEO Award for Wellbeing Programs for programs designed and delivered for staff, including first responders.

Credentials

  • Columbia University, MA

  • Purchase College, BFA

  • The Juilliard School, Diploma Pre-College Division

  • Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP™)

  • Organic Intelligence® Certified Heart Coach

  • Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner

Trainings

  • International Coach Federation ACC, expected 2025

  • Integral Somatic Psychology™ (Raja Selvam, PhD)

  • Eugene Genlind’s Focusing and Polyvagal Theory (Polyvagal Institute)

  • NOI Group (Butler and Moseley)

  • Soma Training and ELDOA (Guy Voyer, DO)

  • Z-Health (Dr. Eric Cobb)

  • Certified Personal Trainer (NASM)

  • Group Fitness Instructor (AFFA)

  • Alexander Technique (500+ hours of professional training at ACAT)

  • Gyrotonic® Method (Foundations with Juliu Horvath)

My Start

I began my cello studies in group music classes in the Levittown, NY, public school system. In high school, I taught cello and played freelance gigs while attending The Juilliard School, Pre-College Division. I earned a BFA from Purchase College and an MA from Columbia University. After my classical music studies, I played cello with songwriters and bands. My career took off, and the intense travel and demands of touring took a huge physical toll on me.

To rebuild my health, I studied somatic movement, trauma healing, and fitness modalities. The benefits of this work not only healed my body, it elevated my entire well-being, transforming my cello playing technically and musically.

Now, I work with organizations to develop and deliver well-being programs as well as perform internationally. My passion is to guide people to achieve their goals in work and life with greater energy, ease, and enjoyment.

Artistic Projects

“… shimmering and luscious …”

— Time Out New York

REFLECTIONS
A multi-media performance featuring STEPHANIE WINTERS with CHRIS ROSSER and a short film by MERRI CYR


Reflections is a scalable multimedia experience where live music, spoken word, and film create a liminal space where dream and reality coexist, and the conscious and unconscious mind meet. Cellist Stephanie Winters will guide you to explore the question of how our pausing and reflecting can become the source of our healing and resiliency. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Chris Rosser will create a live soundscape with oud, piano, and electronics. Film by Merri Cyr. Music by Rosser, Winters, and J.S. Bach.

This project is made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Westport Cultural Council and the Helen Ellis Charitable Trust.

Hear Stephanie’s solo CD

Listen to Stephanie’s heartfelt and sonorous cello CD, Through the Storm. Playing all the parts herself, the arrangements range from solo cello to large cello ensemble.

... moody originals and dreamy covers of Béla Bartók, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and Mahalia Jackson.   
- Time Out New York

In performing all the parts herself, Stephanie Winters has created a shimmering, luscious landscape of cellos, breathtaking in scope, and gorgeous in execution.
- Mark Summer, cellist, Grammy winner

Past Projects

Bach Cello Suites Festival

Stephanie was the Founder, Artistic Director, and Producer for the Bach Cello Suites Festival. Choreographer and dancer Julia Bengtsson premiered her work to Stephanie’s performance of excerpts from Cello Suite No. 5.

Premiered on March 3, 2020, to a sold-out house at New York City’s Carnegie Hall.

Atlanta Baroque Orchestra

BACH IN MOTION FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND DANCE
This festival featured dancer-choreographer Julia Bengtsson and cellist Stephanie Winters performing an original work telling the story of Anna Magdelina Bach through dance to a performance of J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor.

Premiered on June 4 and 5, 2021, in Atlanta, GA and online.

See Stephanie on TV

Stephanie performed with many great singer-songwriters over the years. Here are two favorites.

Cannes Film Festival with Richie Havens

Saturday Night Live with Ellie Goulding

Press Photos

All photos © Merri Cyr

Click on a photo to download

Reflections
Movie stills from the short film by Merri Cyr that features Stephanie and her music

Questions?