Ashleigh Gordon

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Originally from upstate New York, violist Ashleigh Gordon has performed throughout the United States, France, Austria and Florence, Italy on Radio Papesse. She is an active performer of classical and contemporary music with a solo and chamber music repertoire ranging from Bach, Schubert and Debussy to Cage, Gubadulina and Sciarrino. Ashleigh has performed with the Callithumpium Consort in Jordan Hall, the Juventas New Music Ensemble at the Mahaney Center for the Arts at Middlebury College, the Xanthos and Ludovico new music ensembles throughout Boston as well as part of the Brandeis University “Bernstein Festival of the Arts.” She has enjoyed climbing the Alps while attending the 2010 International Ensemble Modern Academy where composer, conductor and oboist Heinz Holliger was in residence. Her strong desire to promote new music has led her to work with such composers as Chaya Czernowin, Krzysztof Penderecki, Steve Reich, David Lang, Christian Wolff, Frederic Rzewski, and Augusta Read Thomas among others.

Also active in the orchestral field, Ashe has performed with the Plymouth Pops (NH), Atlantic Symphony (MA), Pierre Monteux School Orchestra (ME), Ohio Light Opera Company and Glens Falls Symphony (NY), with whom she has recorded under Mode Record Label. In the fall of 2011, she will perform in the American Repertory Theater‘s production of The Gershwin‘s Porgy and Bess staring Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier.

Off stage, Ashe has maintained a flourishing violin and viola studio at the South Shore Conservatory and Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory Outreach Department. As an advocate of social change through education, she has taught through the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra‘s Intensive Community Program which provides rigorous string instrument instruction to students of underrepresented populations, as well as MusiConnects which serves students, communities and families through the transformative power of chamber music.

Ashleigh is a graduate of the New England Conservatory where she earned her Masters Degree while studying with Carol Rodland. Other primary teachers have included Louise Zeitlin and Jeffrey Irvine with supplemental solo and chamber music studies with Peter Slowik, Karen Ritscher, Stephen Drury, Eric Rosenblith and Mai Motobuchi of the Borromeo String Quartet. In the fall, she will attend the Ensemble Modern Academy at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt, a year-long program in Germany, to earn a Masters degree in Contempo­rary Music.