Accustomed to performing for audiences on both the historical performance and modern violin stages, violinist Rachell Ellen Wong is navigating the COVID-19 world through online performances and appearances alongside her artist colleagues. This Friday, May 1, she speaks with Tanya Tomkins, co-Director of California's Valley of the Moon Festival in the festival's Fermata Fridays series. Sunday, May 3, she performs live for New York's Baroquelyn Spotlight Series and chats with Baroquelyn's Founder/Director Aleeza Meir. Wednesday, May 6th, she continues her own Facebook performance series, Home with Rachell, a weekly series of short performances and commentary, that will include live solo performances, live performances with violist Andrew Gonzalez with whom she is quarantining, pre-taped performances with keyboardist David Belkovski, her co-founder in Dioscuri, and also with members of New Amsterdam Concert, the New York-based period-instrument string ensemble she co-founded with fellow Juilliard graduates that specializes in one-on-a-part performances of music from the Renaissance through the High Baroque.
Friday, May 1, 2020
Fermata Fridays
with Tanya Tomkins
Facebook series of Valley of the Moon Festival
Sunday, May 3, 2020
3:00 PM ET (New York Time)
Baroquelyn Spotlight Series
hosted by Aleeza Meir
with violist Andrew Gonzalez
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
7:00 PM ET (New York Time)
Home with Rachell
About Rachell
American violinist Rachell Ellen Wong has performed throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, Costa Rica, Panama, China, Norway and New Zealand. Recipient of a prestigious 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant (the first baroque recipient in the respected program's history), Ms. Wong is a sought-after soloist, chamber musician and collaborator; her growing reputation as one of the top historical performers of her generation has resulted in appearances with such respected ensembles as the American Bach Soloists and The Academy of Ancient Music, and tours with Bach Collegium Japan, Les Arts Florissants, and others. Equally accomplished on the modern violin, Ms.Wong made her first public appearance with the Philharmonia Northwest at age 11 and has since performed as a soloist with such orchestras as Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Panamá and Seattle Symphony.
Passionate about chamber music as well as orchestral and recital music, Ms. Wong is a founding member of New Amsterdam Consort, a New York-based period-instrument string ensemble comprising Juilliard graduates specializing in one-on-a-part performances of music from the Renaissance through the high Baroque. With acclaimed keyboardist David Belkovski, she co-founded Dioscuri, a dynamic, versatile ensemble that focuses on music from all periods on historical instruments.
Notable past concerts include performing Bottesini's Gran Duo Concertante with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Panamá, the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica in Costa Rica, recitals with world-renowned pianists Anton Nel and Byron Schenkman, a 16-concert, four-city tour of New Zealand with the New Zealand String Quartet which included the New Zealand premiere of Alexander Ekman's Cacti for on stage string quartet and ballet with the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and a recital in Wellington, New Zealand featuring works by Bartok, Schubert and Beethoven, also with the New Zealand String Quartet. Ms. Wong served as Artist-in-Residence with the Heifetz International Music Institute in Staunton, Viriginia from 2017-2019.
A native of Seattle, Washington, Rachell Ellen Wong counts among her numerous awards and honors Grand Prizes in the inaugural Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition, the52nd Sorantin International String Competition, the International Crescendo Music Awards, the Heida Hermanns International Competition, and Seattle's Gallery Concert's Next Generation Competition. Recently, she placed in the XXI J.S. Bach International Competition in Germany. She is the recipient of a 2019 Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant and a 2017 Kovner Fellowship, both from The Juilliard School; a 2013 Barbara and David Jacobs Fellowship Award and a 2013 Artist Excellence Award, both from Indiana University; a Distinguished Performance, King Award at the 2012 Young Artists Nat'l Competition; the Starling Distinguished Violinist Scholarship from UT-Austin, from 2009 - 2013, and the 2009 Cascade Symphony's Mori Simon Scholarship, of which she was the first recipient. www.rachellwong.com
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