Saul Richmond-Rakerd is a San Francisco-based cellist. Comfortable in a wide range of settings, he has played as a soloist with the Okemos Symphony Orchestra and the Brown University Orchestra, as well as in numerous solo and chamber music recitals, both in the US and abroad. His musical awards include First Prize at the Barbara Fritz Chamber Music Award (2016), First Prize at the Luigi Boccherini Chamber Music Competition in Lucca, Italy (2016), Second Prize at the Dorothy Van Waynen Competition for Strings (2016) Runner-up at the San Francisco Conservatory Concerto Competition (2016), Primo Arco Premio (2014), Weston Prize for the Arts (2013), and the Buxtehude Premium Prize in Music (2012). He currently serves as assistant principal cellist in the Santa Cruz Symphony, as a section cellist with the Monterey Symphony, as co-principal cellist of One Found Sound, and is a regular substitute with many other orchestras throughout the Bay Area. He also performs with Luminance, a cello-harp-trumpet trio drawing on latin, classical, and jazz roots, and he was a founding member of both the Capitoline Trio and Quattro alla Volta, a cello quartet with whom he performed during his years in Italy.