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Jacqui Carrasco [Violin]

Jacqui Carrasco has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Russia, including solo appearances at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and at the Library of Congress. She has taken an active role in the world of avant-garde and contemporary music, having premiered works by composers such as Steve Reich, Luciano Berio, Morton Feldman, and Earle Brown, and has appeared regularly with New York-based new music groups such as the S.E.M. Ensemble, the Cygnus Ensemble, Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Ensemble, Musicians Accord, and Newband. Ms. Carrasco has recorded contemporary chamber music for the Nonesuch, Mode, and Braxton House record labels and has recently completed a CD of new American music with the Cygnus Ensemble for the CRI label. Aside from her role in contemporary and classical music, Ms. Carrasco has performed quite extensively as a violinist of Argentine tango music. She has joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma in concert and on PBS to celebrate the music of Astor Piazzolla and in 1999 she joined internationally renowned tango musicians to make her Philadelphia Orchestra solo debut. Having previously taught at Princeton University, she is now an Assistant Professor of Music at Wake Forest University.

Discography

William Anderson: Hausmusik