Audrey Riley is a cellist and string arranger based in the UK. Riley trained at the Guildhall School of Music with Leonard Stehn and was a cellist for Virginia Astley from 1983 to 1986 and a one-time auxiliary member of The Family Cat. She has been a member of the post-minimalist band Icebreaker since 1989, and a frequent indie session artist. As an arranger and improvising session cellist she has recorded for nearly two decades with numerous groups including The Style Council (A Stones Throw Away), The Smiths (Stop Me), Nick Cave (on Tender Prey), Dubstar, The Cure, The Sundays, Lush, the Smashing Pumpkins (for whom she conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra strings) and Dave Matthews (for whom she conducted the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in eight of her arrangements for the album Some Devil), as well as live and television appearances with many others. Most recently she has contributed her playing and arrangements to new albums by Coldplay (A Rush of Blood to the Head), Feeder (Comfort In Sound and Pushing the Senses), Muse (Absolution, Black Holes & Revelations and The Resistance), Moloko (Statues) and Fightstar (Be Human).
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