Pascale Delache-Feldman,
bassist
French
double bassist Pascale Delache-Feldman has enjoyed a diverse career
performing as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician, recording
artist, commissioner of new music, educator and founder and artistic
director of the Boston Bass Bash.
As a soloist, she has performed with the Merrimack Valley Philharmonic,
the North Shore Philharmonic, Greensboro Festival Orchestra, Longy
Chamber Orchestra and others. New Music Connoisseur described her
playing from a recent concert as having “technical certainty and musical
imagination” and by the Phoenix as “ a gifted colorist ….who produced an
entire range of orchestral effects”.
An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with violinists Midori,
Joel Smirnoff, pianists Virginia Eskin, Victor Rosenbaum, Randall
Hodgkinson, St. Petersburg String Quartet, the Borromeo String Quartet,
members of the Lark String Quartet, Fidelio and with soprano Dawn
Upshaw. She was a prizewinner at the Prague International Chamber Music
Competition and won first prize with honors for double bass performance
at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. She has
recorded chamber works with the Albany, Archetype, Arsis, AFKA and CRI
labels.
As an orchestra player, Ms. Delache-Feldman has performed with the
Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra
(France), and as principal bassist with Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra,
New England String Ensemble and BMOP, among others.
As co-founder of Cello e Basso (formerly the Axiom Duo) with cellist
Emmanuel Feldman, she has concertized both in the US and in Europe at
such distinguished venues as the Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.),
Jordan Hall (Boston), Sanders Theater (Cambridge), Ferenc Liszt Academy
(Budapest, Hungary), Altes Rathaus (Vienna, Austria), Radio France Paris
and many others. Cello e Basso has been dedicated to new music having
commissioned more than a dozen new works and has appeared on NPR's
Artbeat, WGBH Boston, Vermont Public Radio, France Inter (Carrefour de
L’Odéon), Radio France Toulouse, and local television stations. The duo
has collaborated with Rebecca Rice Dance Group and has performed
together on the Bank of America’s Marquee Celebrity Series. Their debut
CD was released on Synergy Classics in January 2002.
Since 2001, Ms. Delache-Feldman has been the founder and artistic
director of the Boston Bass Bash, an international festival dedicated to
the double bass.
Ms. Delache-Feldman teaches double bass at the Longy School of Music,
Tufts University, Brown University, Rivers School of Music and
frequently is a guest for master classes. She has taught at the Yellow
Barn Music Festival, Summit Music Festival and Wellesley Composers
Conference and Chamber Music Center.
A second-generation bassist, she studied with her father Jean-Claude
Delache at age 10 at the Toulouse Conservatory, later studying with
Jacques Cazauran and Frédéric Stochl at the Paris Conservatory where she
earned her Bachelor of Music. Ms. Delache-Feldman came to the US to
study with Roger Scott at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she
received her Artist Diploma. She was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow
and participated in the Pablo Casals Festival (France) and Schlesswig
Holstein Musik Festival (Germany).
1611
Commonwealth Avenue
West Newton, MA 02465
Tel/Fax: 617-795-2121
email: pascale@rcn.com
(2011) |
Thank you for
your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts |
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