Ensemble Connect Up Close: Ripple Effect
$15
- Rebecca Fischer, violin
Mary Jane Leach — Feu de Joie
Nina Shekhar — GLITCH
Rebecca Fischer / Anthony Hawley — Oscillation (II) (world premiere)
Angélica Negrón — Cosmorama
Aida Shirazi — Blood Moon
Rebecca Fischer / Anthony Hawley — Oscillation (III) (world premiere)
Lisa Bielawa — Fictional Migrations
Angélica Negrón — Make a Sound (world premiere)
Join Ensemble Connect and Artistic Partner The Afield for an immersive exploration of the ways in which nature, technology, and humankind intertwine. Fusing sound, visual art, and improvisation, this multidimensional performance features audience participation and music by Lisa Bielawa, Angélica Negrón, and others. Ensemble Connect showcases exceptional young professional musicians and the vast possibilities of classical music in exciting and unexpected ways.
About Ensemble Connect
Ensemble Connect is a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. This two-year fellowship program prepares extraordinary young professional classical musicians for careers that combine musical excellence with teaching, community engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Ensemble Connect offers top-quality performance opportunities, intensive professional development, and the opportunity to partner with a New York City public school throughout the fellowship.
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Programs/Ensemble-ConnectAbout Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall's mission is to present extraordinary music and musicians on the three stages of this legendary hall, to bring the transformative power of music to the widest possible audience, to provide visionary education programs, and to foster the future of music through the cultivation of new works, artists, and audiences.
https://www.carnegiehall.org/About Rebecca Fischer, violin
Praised for her “beautiful tone and nuanced phrasing” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), violinist Rebecca Fischer is sought after as a highly expressive, intuitive performer of solo, chamber music, and chamber orchestra repertoire. Garnering attention for her compelling programs of solo violin and singing violinist music, Ms. Fischer has premiered solo works by composers Lisa Bielawa, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, Mathew Fuerst, Augusta Read Thomas, Byron Au Yong, Pierre Jalbert, and others.
She is the concertmaster of Ensemble Baroklyn, a group run by pianist Simone Dinnerstein specializing in the music of Bach, and she performs regularly with other ensembles based in New York City. Ms. Fischer is also a member of The Afield, a multidisciplinary collaboration with visual artist/writer Anthony Hawley combining new and original compositions for violin, voice, and electronics with video and other media. The Afield has performed at the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe, Carnegie Hall, and the Atlanta Contemporary Museum, and has published work in Art Papers.
First-violinist of the Chiara String Quartet for 18 years until the group’s final season in 2018, Ms. Fischer recorded and performed numerous works by heart, held residencies at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harvard University, and premiered many major new works by composers such as Gabriela Lena Frank and Philip Glass. Performance highlights include the complete Bartók Quartets by heart at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, several complete Beethoven quartet cycles, and collaborations with such artists as the Juilliard and Saint Lawrence Quartets, Roger Tapping, Robert Levin, and the electronic duo Matmos. Ms. Fischer has recorded for Azica Records (the complete string quartets of Brahms and Bartók) and New Amsterdam Records (the string quartets of Jefferson Friedman, a Grammy-nominated album).
Ms. Fischer is the Executive Director and Director of Senior Camp at Greenwood Music Camp, where she has been on the faculty since 2006. During the year she teaches violin and chamber music at the Mannes School of Music and serves as co-chair of the string department. She has given masterclasses and run workshops at Carnegie Hall, Rice University, Seoul National University, Peabody Conservatory, the University of Michigan, and San Francisco Conservatory, among others, and she was on the faculty of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for over a decade. Ms. Fischer holds degrees from Columbia University (B.A.) and The Juilliard School (M.M., A.D.).
http://www.rebeccafischerviolin.com/