Cellist Osheen Manukyan is the Resident Fellow of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

Manukyan has appeared at festivals across the United States such the Music Academy of the West in California, the Sarasota Festival in Florida, and the Aspen Festival in Colorado, where he was a fellowship recipient. He was the winner of the Colburn Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition in 2017 and appeared on NPR’s From the Top at Walt Disney Concert Hall. As an orchestral musician, Manukyan has performed as principal cellist under conductors such as Marin Alsop, Stéphane Denève, and JoAnn Falletta.

On top of his activities as a performer, Manukyan is dedicated pedagogue, and maintains a private cello studio. He previously worked as a teaching artist at Harmony Project, a non-profit organization providing music education to children in underserved communities in Los Angeles.

Manukyan received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School in New York, where he was a scholarship student of Timothy Eddy. Prior to his collegiate training, he studied with Richard Naill at the Colburn School.