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Classical Music & Teaching Videos
Modern girl with an affinity for the old style -- baroque cellist
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Milestone Goals
Monthly Guest Musicians
There's only so much I can do myself. Bringing in a talented guest allows me to jump into the continuo (accompaniment) role—my favorite place to be—and give another musician a chance to showcase their artistry. With a bigger budget, I can afford to fairly compensate my colleagues for sharing their talents on my channel.
Bi-Monthly Livestream Concert
As much as I love a polished, edited video, livestreaming a concert brings the live performance experience to every computer. Reaching this goal will allow me to plan an early music concert filmed directly for a YouTube audience every other month.
About
Emily Davidson, baroque cellist, is a leading voice in the new generation of historical performance. Originally from New York, Emily currently lives, performs, and teaches in the Boston area. She released her debut solo CD, BASS SOUNDS: Music for Unaccompanied Cello from the Early Baroque, in February 2013, and followed with BASS SOUNDS: Evolved in July 2014. Emily is founder and director of Emergence Quartet, period instrument string quartet. In October 2014 she released OldStyle, an album of baroque pieces turned into electronic dance remixes, with nationally-recognized Dj CUTMAN. Emily received her Master's degree in Early Music Performance from The Longy School of Music of Bard College as a student of Phoebe Carrai. She earned her Bachelor's degree from The Hartt School at The University of Hartford, where she was a leading member of the school's Collegium Musicum directed by Emlyn Ngai.
Early in her undergraduate career, Emily found that "early" music classical music written roughly before 1750 was what resonated with her. She devoted herself to the study and practice of this repertoire by attending American Bach Soloists Academy (San Francisco, CA), Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute (Oberlin, OH), International Baroque Institute at Longy (Cambridge, MA), Amherst Early Music Baroque Academy (New London, CT), and Amherst Early Music Winter Workshop (Philadelphia, PA). She serves as the Assistant Director of Phoebe Carrai's Baroque Cello Bootcamp (Cambridge, MA). Emily has performed in masterclasses for Manfredo Kraemer, Tanya Tomkins, Judy Tarling, Elisabeeth Reed, Rachel Podger, and Kenneth Slowik, and alongside Phoebe Carrai, Elizabeth Blumenstock, Robert Mealy, Gonzalo Ruiz, Catherina Meints, and Jeffrey Thomas. Emily has appeared with The Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, The Boston Camerata, Grand Harmonie, Harvard Early Music Society, Society for Historically Informed Performance (SoHIP), Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series, Exsultemus, Musical Offering, The Oriana Consort, and other ensembles in the Greater Boston area, as well as at the Berkeley Festival and Exhibition Fringe series in California.
As a teaching artist, Emily gives lectures on baroque music, historical string playing, and music history. She served as Artist-in-Residence at University of Central Oklahoma Center for Historical Performance in September 2013. She has worked with elementary, middle, high school and college students in New York and Massachusetts. Emily has a private studio of cello students from young children to adult amateurs. She is active in social media and online, with her Facebook page, YouTube channel, and blog, Historically Incorrect.
Early in her undergraduate career, Emily found that "early" music classical music written roughly before 1750 was what resonated with her. She devoted herself to the study and practice of this repertoire by attending American Bach Soloists Academy (San Francisco, CA), Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute (Oberlin, OH), International Baroque Institute at Longy (Cambridge, MA), Amherst Early Music Baroque Academy (New London, CT), and Amherst Early Music Winter Workshop (Philadelphia, PA). She serves as the Assistant Director of Phoebe Carrai's Baroque Cello Bootcamp (Cambridge, MA). Emily has performed in masterclasses for Manfredo Kraemer, Tanya Tomkins, Judy Tarling, Elisabeeth Reed, Rachel Podger, and Kenneth Slowik, and alongside Phoebe Carrai, Elizabeth Blumenstock, Robert Mealy, Gonzalo Ruiz, Catherina Meints, and Jeffrey Thomas. Emily has appeared with The Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, The Boston Camerata, Grand Harmonie, Harvard Early Music Society, Society for Historically Informed Performance (SoHIP), Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series, Exsultemus, Musical Offering, The Oriana Consort, and other ensembles in the Greater Boston area, as well as at the Berkeley Festival and Exhibition Fringe series in California.
As a teaching artist, Emily gives lectures on baroque music, historical string playing, and music history. She served as Artist-in-Residence at University of Central Oklahoma Center for Historical Performance in September 2013. She has worked with elementary, middle, high school and college students in New York and Massachusetts. Emily has a private studio of cello students from young children to adult amateurs. She is active in social media and online, with her Facebook page, YouTube channel, and blog, Historically Incorrect.
Location
Boston, MA, USA
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*Update* 7.26.15 - Help me feature guests on my channel!
Hi! I'm Emily and I play cello. I specialize in baroque music, music written between 1600 and 1750. As a young classical musician, I wanted to share my own playing and turn others on to the music I perform. My goal was not only to connect with other people who love this music, but also reach even more people than those who might attend a classical concert. I love baroque music, and I want it to reach a wide audience!
Hi! I'm Emily and I play cello. I specialize in baroque music, music written between 1600 and 1750. As a young classical musician, I wanted to share my own playing and turn others on to the music I perform. My goal was not only to connect with other people who love this music, but also reach even more people than those who might attend a classical concert. I love baroque music, and I want it to reach a wide audience!
My YouTube channel is where I post my cello playing, talk about the history behind the pieces I play, and give lessons on playing baroque music. I've even livestreamed a rehearsal or concert direct to YouTube. I started my channel in 2006, and now I've started doing it with serious commitment and consistency, usually posting a new video every other week. I love bringing this rich, evocative, and often under-appreciated repertoire to a worldwide audience! It's my hope that this music becomes as recognized as later symphonic works, and that the most unassuming of viewers feel an emotional connection with music they would have never expected.
I'm a full-time freelance musician. I'm a performing baroque cellist and cello teacher in the Boston area. I specialize in a historically-informed approach to early classical music. After grad school, to fill the time between concerts and lessons, I self-produced two unaccompanied cello albums, BASS SOUNDS, which focus on cello repertoire from the 17th and 18th centuries. I also collaborated on an alternative project, OldStyle, where I remixed baroque pieces into electronic dance music with the goal of further expanding the reach of this music. I formed the group Emergence Quartet to explore the earliest pieces written for the string quartet, performed on period instruments. Throughout these endeavors I was filming and documenting for my YouTube channel.
Why Patreon? Every video requires planning and hours of practice time. I own my equipment and record and edit myself. I love being able to share this music and engage with my audience directly, so it's my goal to make this a viable source of work for me. That's where you come in! Your support helps me produce better quality videos more often, and helps this music reach a global audience. By funding these videos, you help me continue to offer all of these resources and performances for free.