Cuban-Chinese cellist, composer, and multidisciplinary artist SUUVI (fka Sophia Bacelar) combines her classical background and training with a taste for contemporary music to create elegant, ethereal soundscapes. A child prodigy, she began playing cello at age two and, by age ten, was accepted to Juilliard, studying cello, piano, and composition. After a career as a classical soloist, performing in renowned venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, The Berlin Philharmonie, and The Louis Vuitton Foundation, she began experimenting with a new sound and spent several years redefining her voice as an artist. During this time, she toured and worked with artists from genres ranging from electronic, R&B, hip-hop, pop, and rock to film, jazz, and world music. Most notably, she was the solo cellist in Hans Zimmer’s “World of Hans Zimmer” tour, performing in arenas throughout Europe, Asia, and The Middle East, and opened for Teyana Taylor, SAYGRACE, Ambré, and Baby Rose during Live Nation’s 2022 “Big Femme Energy” North America tour. She has also worked closely with the contemporary dance and ballet world, creating several original works alongside BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning composers Paul Leonard-Morgan and Pedro Osuna that have been choreographed and performed by dancers from San Francisco Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, The Dutch National Ballet, BODYTRAFFIC, and more.

Host of ‘The WTF Bach Podcast,’ pianist Evan Shinners attended The Juilliard School where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. A devotee of the music of J.S. Bach, Evan is a clavichordist and studied harpsichord with Béatrice Martin. He is the founder of The Bach Store: temporary concert halls where Evan performs the complete keyboard works of Bach, for free, daily, in unused real estate spaces around the world.

Bach Stores were/are in: Manhattan in 2018 and 2019, The Thüringer Bachwochen in Germany in 2022 and 2024, Brighton, UK in 2025, and the Bach Festival of Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 2026.

His ambitious podcast dissects daunting subjects, such as the structure of The Art of Fugue, aimed at an audience of amateurs and non-professionals. His guests are among the most influential in current Bach thought: Brad Mehldau, Robert Hill, Chris Thile, Christoph Wolff, Joshua Rifkin, and others.

He was recently the first laureate of a Career Achievement Award from the Music Academy of the West in California. On May 17th, the first three of a projected twenty-four albums, covering in depth the entire scope of Bach’s solo keyboard works, will be released.

Mr. Shinners is a Yamaha Artist.