GUILFORD — The Guilford Free Library presents Michelle Ross performing an all-Bach solo violin recital on Saturday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m., at the Guilford Center Meeting House on Guilford Center Road, next to the Library.
Ross will play Partita No. 2 in D Minor and Partita No. 3 in E Major.
Ross is a violinist and composer who loves Southern Vermont and enthusiastically agreed to play a recital in the area to benefit the Guilford Free Library. An acclaimed violinist, she was the recipient of the 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Ross participated in the Marlboro Music Festival from 2011 to 2014 and has performed often with the related Musicians from Marlboro touring program. She performed with Maestro Harry Bicket in Zankel Hall and with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris as soloist and conductor in Cite de La Musique in Paris.
Ross recently completed a 33-day tour through New York City performing the solo Bach cycle in thrift shops, police precincts, museums, bookshops and even on the Staten Island Ferry. She chronicled that journey on a blog, DiscoveringBach.com/. Last season, she toured Europe as guest concertmaster with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre National du Capitol de Toulouse.
Ross is also a composer and improviser who finds inspiration creating multi-media and collaborative works.
Her work “Square None” has toured with the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet for four straight seasons. She has had premieres in the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Joyce Theater, and in Lincoln Center's Beyond the Machine Festival. Ross is the founder and artistic director of Music in the Mountains, a chamber-music festival atop Powder Mountain in Ellen, Utah.
The Guilford Free Library is a small community library in an informal setting that nurtures the lifelong learning and reading interests of residents of the Town of Guilford and surrounding rural towns. It is a privilege for the Library to present this beautiful all-Bach recital, performed by such an accomplished musician.