Debbie Brooks is a music contractor and free-lance cellist in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and performs regularly with the Fort Worth Symphony and other area ensembles. Ms. Brooks is in the core orchestra of Dallas Summer Musicals, which performed the National Tours of Beauty and the Beast, Flower Drum Song, Lion King, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera, and Wicked, and has been the solo cellist for Casa Manana Musicals since 1981.
Her debut Compact Disc with Yamaha artist and composer Joyce Valentine was released in 2000, with Yamaha producing a Midi-Disc version in 2001. Ms. Brooks is very much in demand as a solo studio cellist.

Before resigning as Associate Principal Cellist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Brooks was the featured soloist with Bobby McFerrin, Bernadette Peters, and Mark O’Connor on the Fort Worth Symphony Pops Series. In 1996, she was awarded the American Airlines Distinguished Musicians Award as a result of her contribution to the community during her over two decades of service with the orchestra.

“I wanted to drop you a note along with CD that you worked on. It released last week. Your part was so vital to the project. I’m overwhelmed at the talent God has given you and want to thank you for making it a success . . . I’m hoping that we get the chance to work together again in the near future.”

“My very special thanks to you and all the musicians who presented a most memorable wedding . . . Everyone so enjoyed the music and loved the vocalists, the instruments, and organ . . . I have had so many many notes from friends sharing their feelings and pleasure in attending such a wonderful evening. Your efforts and talents made it all possible . . . I do believe their dreams of a wedding were more than accomplished . . .”
“Thanks for supplying such a wonderful group of players…it was a delight and a terrific performance. Hope to do it again!!!”