Cello Faculty

LOGAN DAILEY

Logan Dailey maintains a varied career as a soloist, teacher, and chamber musician in the greater Cleveland area. Originally from North Carolina, Logan earned his Bachelor of Music and Certificate of Advanced Performance Studies from East Carolina University under the instruction of Emanuel Gruber. Following his time in Greenville, NC, Logan studied with Mark Kosower at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), receiving his master’s in cello performance.

A passionate chamber musician, Logan participated in the Intensive Quartet Seminar at CIM under the Cavani Quartet and Peter Salaff; additionally, he has performed in chamber masterclasses for members of the Brentano Quartet, Jupiter Quartet, Calidore Quartet, and many others. Logan has performed with the Cleveland Opera Theater, South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, and Tar River Philharmonic Orchestra, and has been featured regularly as an alumni artist with Four Seasons Next Generation in Greenville, NC where he has coached chamber music and taught privately at the high school and collegiate level.

ELIZA Fath POXON

Eliza Fath Poxon started studying cello at the age of 5. At the age of 13 she was accepted into the Juilliard Pre-College divison. She went on to receive both a bachelor’s degree and a professional studies degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Melissa Kraut.  She continued her studies and received her Master of Music at the Manhattan School of Music under Philippe Muller. She received her Suzuki certification in Pre-Twinkle through Book 10 at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Eliza began teaching in 2017. She has served as a faculty member at the Aurora School of Music, Bermuda Piano Festival, Tone Academy of Music located in New York City, and The Bronx School for Music.

Eliza has placed in multiple competitions including winning Grand Prize at the Rocky Ridge Young Artist Seminar Chamber Competition, 2nd prize in the collegiate division of the Tennessee Cello Workshop Competition, and finalist in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition, to name just a few. Additionally, she was awarded the Hans and Klara Bauer Scholarship Award in 2020 at the Manhattan School of Music. She has attended various prestigious festivals including The Great Mountains Music Festival in PyeongChang, South Korea, The Sitka International Cello Seminar, Heifetz International Music Institute, and the Busan Music Festival in South Korea. Eliza has also collaborated with notable musicians such as Zuill Bailey.

Ariel Londono

Colombian-born Ariel David Londono has been teaching cello for 11 years. Ariel holds a bachelor’s degree in cello performance from the National Conservatory of the National University of Colombia. He holds both a master’s in chamber music from Kent State University, where he studied with the highly-acclaimed Miami String Quartet, and a master’s in cello performance (with a certificate in conducting) from Ohio University where he was in the studio of cellist Gabriel Prynn of the internationally-recognized Trio Fibonacci.

Ariel began his teaching at the Unamusica Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia where for three years he taught cello for Tocar y Luchar, a youth orchestra for under-served children based on the famed Venezuelan El Sistema. There he taught both private lessons and group lessons, as well as sectionals for orchestra rehearsals. He also taught at other schools in Colombia as well as in the U.S. at the Athens Community School in Athens, Ohio.

Ariel began his orchestral experience in his teen years with the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. Later he played as an occasional member of the Colombian Symphony. In the U.S., he was a member of the Ohio Valley Symphony from 2017-2019. He has performed in numerous recitals as a chamber musician in Colombia and the U.S., most notably in the Garua Quintet which was devoted to the music of Piazzola, and he placed in chamber music competitions in Colombia. He has also performed numerous solo recitals in both Colombia and the U.S.