Chelsea Green is an associate professor of music at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She teaches music history, introductory ethnomusicology, music theory, music entrepreneurship and guitar performance. Drawing on her experience as a professional guitar soloist and ensemble player, Green also directs the Cairo Guitar Collective and the AUC Guitar Ensemble, both of which perform regularly throughout Egypt.

In 2020, the Rebus Community published Green's open textbook Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method, the first open book published by an AUC professor. Alongside teaching and performing, she transcribes music for guitar and recently completed a set of French art songs for guitar and voice. Her transcriptions are published and distributed by the California Guitar Archives (CGA), which also distributes her full-length album The Mélodies of Erik Satie and Reynaldo Hahn, performed by duo Les Copines (Risa Larson, soprano, and Chelsea Green, guitars).

In 2011, she published a philosophical article titled Permission to Play: Obstacles and Open Spaces in Music-Making, which examines how the phenomenon of play, as articulated by philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, relates to the performing arts.

In 2010, Green was selected to participate in the monthlong Asian Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX) in Bali, Indonesia. During the exchange, artists from East Asia and the United States studied traditional Balinese performing arts and created collaborative performance pieces.

In 2006, Green co-founded the Los Angeles Electric 8, an electric guitar octet whose repertoire spans from the late Renaissance to the present. During her six years with the ensemble, the group recorded three full-length albums and performed at major U.S. festivals, including the Strathmore Guitar Festival, Sundays Live at LACMA, REDCAT’s Summer Studio, the World Festival of Sacred Music and MicroFest.

She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, with a specialization in guitar performance, from the University of California, Los Angeles.