David Teie
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David Teie is an American cellist and zoomusicologist. He is best known for creating Music for Cats, an album of music specifically designed to appeal to cats.
Teie received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Peabody Conservatory and was a Fulbright scholar. In 1984, Teie joined the National Symphony Orchestra. He served as the acting principal cellist of the San Francisco Symphony for the 1999-2000 season,[1] during which he collaborated and performed with heavy metal band Metallica.[2] Teie served as music director of the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra from 2013 to 2016.[1]
Inspired by his music career, Teie has conducted research on music and cognition, publishing articles in Biology Letters of the Royal Society[3] and Applied Animal Behavior Science[4], and contributing a chapter to the Oxford University Press book Evolution of Emotional Communication[5] offering a comprehensive theory of the origins and affective processes of music.[1] Teie was a lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park.[6]