Ashley Addington

Nashua Community Music School Flute Festival

June 28th – July 2nd, 2010, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

The Flute Festival is open to all middle school and high school students interested in improving tone, technique, sight reading skills, ensemble experience, and musicianship!   Participants will have the opportunity to perform with a pianist in a master class and on the final participant recital.

We had a terrific time last summer and I’m looking forward to another great week this summer!  

To sign up, please visit www.nashuacms.org.

Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice

June 19th, 2010, 4:00 PM
New England Conservatory, Brown Hall

Stephen Drury, Artistic Director

The SICPP Iditarod is a six hour marathon concert featuring work by SICPP Composition Fellows and composer-in-residence Chaya Czernowin, and music of Donatoni, Stockhausen, Hyla, Crumb, Liang, Ives, Sciarrino, Harvey, Hosokawa, Takemitsu, Berio, Foss, Feldman and Cage, with electronic sound installations throughout the Conservatory building.

SICPP performs new music at the Gardner Museum

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010, 1:00 PM

The rest of the concert includes music by Berio, Takemistu, Messiaen, and Kurtag performed by fellows at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice Festival.

An Evening of Flute and Cello Music with Rachel Arnold

June 6th, 2010, 7:00 PM
Danvers United Methodist Church
16 Sylvan Street
Danvers, MA

*Premiere of commissioned pieces

Suggested Donation $10

MetroWest Opera presents Mozart’s The Magic Flute

Weston Town Hall
11 Town House Road
Weston, MA

Saturday, April 25th, 2010, 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 26th, 2010, 3:00 PM
Saturday, May 1st, 2010, 7:30 PM
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010, 3:00 PM

Adam Boyles, Music Director

More information and tickets here.

A Musical and Poetic Journey from Freedomville to Breakdowns

February 19th, 2010, 9:00 PM

Scott Ruescher, poet
Ashley Addington, flute
Rachel Arnold, cello
Dennis Shafer, Soundpainter, saxophone
Diana Norma, poet
Sarah Kinne, visual artist

Take a journey with Ruescher’s new chapbook Sidewalk Tectonics (2009 Pudding House Press). Musically enhanced by this ruthless duo, Jim Scully’s Duplicitous Encounter will start the trip from Lincoln’s birthplace to the site Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination, highlighted by Christopher Gainey’s Breakdowns.  No kidding, there’s blues in this one–and Soundpainting, too!   Bring your own contribution in the form of poetry, sound, spirits, and be ready for a surprise from the exhibited visual artist, Sarah Kinne!

Suggested Donation $10

Joint concert with pianist Danny Holt

Thursday, January 28th, 2010, 7:00 PM
The Lily Pad Cambridge
1353 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA

*Premiere of Commissioned Pieces

Pianist Danny Holt will perform the 2nd half of the concert.

Music of Bach, Charpentier, Rutter, and more holiday favorites

December 13th, 2009, 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM
First Congregational Church of Chatham
650 Main Street
Chatham, MA

Performances at the Nashua Holiday Stroll

November 28th, 2009, 7:00 PM
Church of the Good Shepherd
214 Main Street
Nashua, NH

Music for Flute, Voice, and Piano

November 28th, 2009, 5:45 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua
58 Lowell Street
Nashua, NH

with Janet Poisson, soprano and Angela Olszta, piano