RACHEL LEE PRIDAY violin www.arielartists.com G [email protected]SPIRITS TO ENFORCE art to enchant ARTISTS Ariel “In many ways [Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto with Rachel Lee Priday as soloist] was the highlight of the night…She has a gutsy way of digging into the music, and a terrific sense of rhythm… She commanded attention from the first bars, which has the violin playing a klezmer-like melody against a shiver of strings. Her articulation was crisp and sure.” –The Buffalo News “Rachel Lee’s performance [was] nothing short of exquisite. Words could not describe this violinist’s talents. Indeed Lee [is] among the most talented musicians in the world.” –San Francisco Examiner “Lee seemed not the least intimidated by [Paganini’s fiendishly difficult 1816 Violin Concerto No. 1]… She coped with the music’s acrobatic turns and leaps with immaculate precision, but amid all the violin fireworks she also played, where possible, with expres- sive phrasing and warmth of tone. This was especially apparent in the slow movement that she turned into a welcome oasis of Italianate lyricism… In the racehorse Finale, Lee’s execution of the bouncing spiccato passages was truly dazzling... The audience gave Lee a well-deserved standing ovation.” –The Buffalo News short bio press V iolinist Rachel Lee Priday (PRY-day), acclaimed for her beauty of tone, riveting stage presence, and “irresistible panache” ( Chicago Tribune), has appeared as soloist with major international orchestras, including the Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, Seattle, and National Symphony Orchestras, the Boston Pops, and the Berlin Staatskapelle. Recent and upcoming highlights include concerto engagements with the Pacific Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Stamford Symphony, Greenville Symphony, Grand Junction Symphony, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic, and Cape Town Philharmonic. Conductors Rachel has worked with recently include JoAnn Falletta, Carl St. Clair, Michael Morgan, Daniel Boico, Bernhard Gueller, Arjan Tien, Eckart Preu, and Leon Botstein. Rachel’s frequent recital appearances have brought her to such distinguished venues as the Mostly Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher Hall, the Kansas City Harriman-Jewell Series, Ravinia’s “Rising Stars” Series, and UCSB Arts and Lectures. Recent highlights include a debut UK recital tour, recitals at the Sarasota Opera House, Lawrence University, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series in Chicago, shows at Joe’s Pub and SubCulture in NYC, and an 8-recital tour of South Africa with pianist Bryan Wallick. Last June, Rachel embarked on a three-city tour of China, where she combined outreach and performances at the Beijing Modern Music Festival, Tianjin May Festival, and Shenyang Conservatory. The tour marked the launch of a year-long association with the Asia/America New Music Institute; further appearances with AANMI include concerts at the Asia-Europe New Music Festival in Hanoi, Vietnam, the Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City, and the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, CA. Rachel and pianist David Kaplan, through a Harvard Fromm Music Foundation grant, recently commissioned a new work, Violin Sonata, from Pulitzer Prize Finalist Christopher Cerrone. As a Resident Artist with Metropolis Ensemble in NYC, she has also commissioned a forthcoming work by Scott Wollschleger for violin and chamber orchestra. Other recent highlights include extensive interdisciplinary collaborations with composer Matthew Aucoin at the Peabody-Essex Museum, with the Ballet San Jose, Symphony Silicon Valley, and a week-long run of the theatrical concert, Tchaikovsky: None But The Lonely Heart , with Ensemble for the Romantic Century at BAM. A native of Chicago, Rachel began her violin studies at the age of four, and in 1996, moved to New York to study with the late pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division with Itzhak Perlman. She holds a B.A. degree in English from Harvard University and an M.M. from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Miriam Fried through its joint dual-degree program with Harvard College. She performs on a Nicolo Gagliano violin (Naples, 1760), double-purfled with fleurs-de-lis, named Alejandro. “Lee is the real thing...She played the [Tchaikovsky] Violin Concerto with a rich, mellifluous sound and negotiated the work’s demanding running passages with chiseled clarity. Lee was particularly eloquent in the concerto’s second movement. She brought a dazzling, forceful technique to bear on the third movement.” –The Greenville News “It’s not just her technique either, although clearly there’s nothing she can’t do on the fingerboard or with her bow. No, what’s most impressive is that she is already an artist who can make the music sing… ” –The Baltimore Sun PHOTO BY LISA-MARIE MAZZUCCO
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“In many ways [Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto with Rachel Lee Priday as soloist] was the highlight of the night…She has a gutsy way of digging into the music, and a terrific sense of rhythm…She commanded attention from the first bars, which has the violin playing a klezmer-like melody against a shiver of strings. Her articulation was crisp and sure.” –The Buffalo News
“Rachel Lee’s performance [was] nothing short of exquisite. Words could not describe this violinist’s talents. Indeed Lee [is] among the most talented musicians in the world.” –San Francisco Examiner
“Lee seemed not the least intimidated by [Paganini’s fiendishly difficult 1816 Violin Concerto No. 1]… She coped with the music’s acrobatic turns and leaps with immaculate precision, but amid all the violin fireworks she also played, where possible, with expres-sive phrasing and warmth of tone. This was especially apparent in the slow movement that she turned into a welcome oasis of Italianate lyricism… In the racehorse Finale, Lee’s execution of the bouncing spiccato passages was truly dazzling... The audience gave Lee a well-deserved standing ovation.” –The Buffalo News
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V iolinist Rachel Lee Priday (PRY-day), acclaimed for her beauty of tone, riveting stage presence, and “irresistible panache” (Chicago Tribune), has appeared as soloist with major international orchestras, including the Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, Seattle, and National Symphony Orchestras, the Boston Pops, and the Berlin Staatskapelle.
Recent and upcoming highlights include concerto engagements with the Pacific Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Stamford Symphony, Greenville Symphony, Grand Junction Symphony, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic, and Cape Town Philharmonic. Conductors Rachel has worked with recently include JoAnn Falletta, Carl St. Clair, Michael Morgan, Daniel Boico, Bernhard Gueller, Arjan Tien, Eckart Preu, and Leon Botstein.
Rachel’s frequent recital appearances have brought her to such distinguished venues as the Mostly Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher Hall, the Kansas City Harriman-Jewell Series, Ravinia’s “Rising Stars” Series, and UCSB Arts and Lectures. Recent highlights include a debut UK recital tour, recitals at the Sarasota Opera House, Lawrence University, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series in Chicago, shows at Joe’s Pub and SubCulture in NYC, and an 8-recital tour of South Africa with pianist Bryan Wallick.
Last June, Rachel embarked on a three-city tour of China, where she combined outreach and performances at the Beijing Modern Music Festival, Tianjin May Festival, and Shenyang Conservatory. The tour marked the launch of a year-long association with the Asia/America New Music Institute; further appearances with AANMI include concerts at the Asia-Europe New Music Festival in Hanoi, Vietnam, the Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City, and the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, CA.
Rachel and pianist David Kaplan, through a Harvard Fromm Music Foundation grant, recently commissioned a new work, Violin Sonata, from Pulitzer Prize Finalist Christopher Cerrone. As a Resident Artist with Metropolis Ensemble in NYC, she has also commissioned a forthcoming work by Scott Wollschleger for violin and chamber orchestra. Other recent highlights include extensive interdisciplinary collaborations with composer Matthew Aucoin at the Peabody-Essex Museum, with the Ballet San Jose, Symphony Silicon Valley, and a week-long run of the theatrical concert, Tchaikovsky: None But The Lonely Heart, with Ensemble for the Romantic Century at BAM.
A native of Chicago, Rachel began her violin studies at the age of four, and in 1996, moved to New York to study with the late pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division with Itzhak Perlman. She holds a B.A. degree in English from Harvard University and an M.M. from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Miriam Fried through its joint dual-degree program with Harvard College.
She performs on a Nicolo Gagliano violin (Naples, 1760), double-purfled with fleurs-de-lis, named Alejandro.
“Lee is the real thing...She played the [Tchaikovsky] Violin Concerto with a rich, mellifluous sound and negotiated the work’s demanding running passages with chiseled clarity. Lee was particularly eloquent in the concerto’s second movement. She brought a dazzling, forceful technique to bear on the third movement.” –The Greenville News
“It’s not just her technique either, although clearly there’s nothing she can’t do on the fingerboard or with her bow. No, what’s most impressive is that she is already an artist who can make the music sing… ” –The Baltimore Sun