Alfred Hook Lecture-Recital by Dr Nicole Cherry
Friday 25 November 2022
The violin, in its many forms, holds a significant place in world history as a communicator, a language with which we can all identify, and understand. In this lecture-recital, Dr Nicole Cherry offers two commissioned pieces that connect this journey.
A champion of new music, Dr Cherry has commissioned several works including companion pieces based on her research of nineteenth-century Afro-European violinist, George Bridgetower (The ForgewithGeorge Music Project). Dr Cherry has since premiered the work all over the US and Canada, with scheduled dates in Europe. As the most recent composition from the ForgewithGeorge Project, “The Bridgetower,” is an autobiographical soundscape which also tells Bridgetower’s story. This will be paired with a world premiere of a 2021 commission by composer Jessie Cox, who shares Dr Cherry’s desire to discover and evoke narratives through a multi-phased sound journey. These two pieces are bookends of Dr Cherry’s journey that also bridge the past and the future through her relationship with the violin.
About the lecturer
Dr Nicole Cherry
Dr Nicole Cherry is Assistant Professor of Violin at The University of Texas at San Antonio and second violinist of the award-winning Marian Anderson String Quartet. Based in Texas for over twenty years, Dr Cherry is a dedicated teacher and has held artist-teacher residencies at Texas A&M, Prairie View A&M, University of Washington, and Brown University where she has trained promising string players of all ages.
Dr Cherry received her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School with training that has exposed her to the teaching and mentorship of the world’s most distinguished artists such as members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Emerson, Colorado and the Takács String Quartet; as well as esteemed violinists including Isidore Cohen, Erick Friedman, Joseph Fuchs, Felix Galimir, and Jaap Schroeder. She has performed in ensembles conducted by Pierre Boulez, Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, and as concertmaster under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich.
Dr Cherry received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Maryland and completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Texas Tech University where she served as the first violinist of the graduate string quartet. Dr Cherry has also received graduate fellowships from the Peabody Institute of Music and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.
Location and dates
Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Friday 25 November 2022
7pm - 8pm
Register to attend in-person via the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Box Office.