Dylan Tyree

Praised by Friends of Chamber Music for his ability to “represent the next generation of chamber music artists,” Dylan Tyree is a cellist, composer, and arts administrator based in Los Angeles, CA, and Denver, CO. 

As a cellist, Dylan thrives in a wide range of musical worlds, including chamber music, studio recording, recital repertoire, rock/pop shows, symphonic music, and everything in between. Inspired by bringing new works to life as a composer and performer, he has worked closely with celebrated composers including: Eric Whitacre, Ola Gjeilo, Caroline Shaw, Christopher Tin, Roger Holland, and Sarah Quartel, among others. Most recently, he was featured as a soloist in the world premiere recording of Christopher Tin’s new work “Song Offerings” and “Transfigurations,” set to debut on Decca Records in 2025. As a chamber musician, Dylan is the founding cellist of the Empyrean Quartet and is the lead cellist in Duality, a multi-genre cover band with pianist Mitchell Galligan.

As a competition-winning composer, Dylan has been commissioned by leading soloists, ensembles, and festivals, including the Suncoast Composer Fellowship Program, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, Sunset Chamber Festival, Soaring Arts Music Collective, and the University of Denver; and soloists including Matthew Zalkind, Martin Kuuskmann, Joshua Felser, Zoe Weiss, and Danny McDonnall. An advocate for writing/performing new music for electric cello, he was awarded a PinS grant from the University of Denver to compose and record a new large-scale work for the instrument with live electronics. Dylan is equally active as a composer and arranger outside of the Western classical music world, and regularly arranges music for Duality and professional chamber music ensembles. 

In 2023, Dylan co-founded the Soaring Artists Music Collective (SAMC), a non-profit organization focused on reshaping the relationship between the artist and the spectator by presenting immersive and genre-bending concerts in Denver, CO.

Dylan is currently pursuing a double M.Mus. in Composition and Cello Performance at the University of Southern California under the tutelage of Ralph Kirshbaum and Seth Parker Woods for cello, and Donald Crockett, Andrew Norman, and Ted Hearne for composition.