Laura Metcalf, cello Cellist Laura Metcalf, who grew up in Connecticut, is coming up on her 19th year in New York, where she has been involved in one creative project after another. She founded the string quartet the Overlook, dedicated to amplifying music by Black composers. With her husband, classical guitarist Rupert Boyd, she has a duo called Boyd Meets Girl. She performs with the cello$#045;percussion quartet Break of Reality, selected in 2015 for a world tour as musical ambassadors by the US State Department. She was cellist of the string quintet Sybarite5. After the pandemic, Metcalf started teaching one day a week at a school in the Bronx, the Riverdale Country School, in order to have "a little bit of steady work." "I am drawn to chamber music at the intersection of genres," Metcalf tells me in a wide-ranging conversation. "I've never been a part of, like, a super standard classical string quartet. And I couldn't have predicted the way it's all unfolded. It's become even more exciting than I would have imagined." By Laurence Vittes | From the May-June 2023 issue of Strings magazine