Cellist Charae Krueger is Principal Cellist for the Atlanta Opera Orchestra and the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra. She is Senior Lecturer and Artist in Residence in Cello at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, having been a faculty member since 2005. Ms. Krueger is an avid chamber musician and is a member of the Summit Piano Trio, the Atlanta Chamber Players and Serafin Ensemble.. She is a regular featured artist at the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina, the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming and at Serafin Summer Music. Her solo and chamber music concerts have been featured at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie and Merkin Halls in New York City as well as on NPR's Performance Today, WABE Radio Atlanta and WGBH Radio Boston. She has played on stadium shows with Earth, Wind and Fire, The Eagles, The Who, Hugh Jackman, Smokey Robinson and Game of Thrones, and has recorded on albums of Bruce Springsteen, Faith Hill, Train and Natalie Cole. She also performs frequently with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony.

Ms. Krueger received her early cello training in Canada at the Regina Conservatory of Music. She received her Bachelor of Music Performance degree from New England Conservatory in Boston as a student of Laurence Lesser and Colin Carr. She also holds an Artist Diploma from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA and continued her training during the summers at the Banff Centre in Canada where she studied with Janos Starker and Aldo Parisot. Ms. Krueger received additional quartet training with the Juilliard Quartet at the Juilliard School.