Kaitlyn Vest is the Adjunct Instructor of Cello at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Visiting Instructor of Cello at Sewanee: The University of the South. In addition, Ms. Vest is a faculty teaching artist at Bay View Music Festival, a member of the Bay View String Quartet, and was previously the Chamber Music Coordinator for the String Academy at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival.
A section cellist with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, Kaitlyn also has a contract with Nashville Opera Orchestra, and plays with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Memphis Symphony, and other regional ensembles. In her exploration of non-traditional music settings, Kaitlyn performs with Nashville-based ensembles Intersection and Chatterbird, as well as in yoga studios and retreats across the southeast. She is also the cellist in the flute-cello duo Kokocelli, with Kristen Holritz.
Ms. Vest received her B.M. from the University of Memphis, and her M.M. from Carnegie Mellon University with Anne Martindale Williams.