Merry Christmas! Happy Chanukah!
I hope all of you are enjoying the holiday season where ever you may be! I will be spending time with family and friends in Saratoga Springs, NY which is buried in a foot of snow right now. Finally a White Christmas!!
After a brief regression to childhood, it’s back to work! There is a lot happening this winter and spring so be sure to check in every so often for updates. First, on February 8th I will be joining the Bang on a Can All-Stars (Evan Ziporyn, Mark Stewart, Robert Black and David Cossin) for a concert at the Chan Centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada! This concert promises to be a fun one with an all contemporary program of music by David Lang, Michael Gordon, Thurston Moore, Julia Wolfe, Lukas Ligeti and Brian Eno. For more information please visit the All-Stars’ website at www.bangonacan.org.
Next I will be performing in recital with Pianist Lucas Wong at Bard College, my alma mater, on the 27th of February. Lucas and I went to the Yale School of music and he is currently a Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Bard Conservatory of Music. The program features works by Bach, Beethoven, Faure, Piazzolla and Martin Bresnick. Bresnick wrote his Ballade for cello and piano in 2004 for cellist Andre Emelianoff, who coincidentally is part of an ensemble, the Da Capo Chamber Players, in residence at Bard College. (Six degrees…always)
Following this concert I will also have two guest appearances with the Newburgh Symphony and the Yale Philharmonia. March 14th will be Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Dvorak’s Silent Woods in Newburgh NY and then April 4th in New Haven will feature Saint-Saens 2nd Cello Concerto. Hope to see you there!!!
In the meantime, I have had a lot of musical opportunity here in New York City and am enjoying a great deal of teaching and performing. I am thankful to have met so many wonderful musicians and new friends as well as stay in touch with old ones. Here’s to a fabulous 2008 and and even better 2009!
Thinking of you all,
Ashley