Heidi Carey
Cellist Heidi Brown Carey is a product of the South Carolina public school arts system. A native of Greenville, SC, she played with the Carolina Youth Symphony and the Greenville Symphony, and attended the Greenville County Fine Arts Center and SC Governor’s School for the Arts before studying with Dr. Robert Jesselson at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Ms. Carey graduated magna cum laude from the Honors College of the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, a minor in Business, and a Performance Certificate from the School of Music in Cello. Upon graduation, she attended the University of South Carolina School of Law and earned her Juris Doctor degree. She has played in regional orchestras, churches and chamber ensembles, was a pioneering cellist in the rock band Treadmill Trackstar, and has been a section cello member of the South Carolina Philharmonic since 1998. She continues her law career as a partner at Riley Pope & Laney, LLC. In 2025 she was appointed by Governor McMaster to the South Carolina Arts Commission.
Ms. Carey plays a handmade cello, crafted by Damir Horvat in 2018.