✨NADJA is the first improvised piece I ever wrote, layering with a boombox 📻 this is still my favorite piece to play, because it connects me to the most vulnerable and earnest parts of myself
One year ago, I had the privilege to work with Maestro Mikhail Pletnev and Orchestre de Paris as guest concertmaster on a gorgeous program of Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. Merci, chers amis ✨💙Excerpt: Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3 Variation X
“Birds on the Moon” for @juilliardstringquartet 💙 dedicated to Roger. World premiere February 20, 2025 Chamber Music Napa Valley
Cover 📸 by Titilayo Ayangade
Violinist, Improvisor, and Composer Michelle Barzel Ross closes out season 9 of The Conscious Artist®️ Podcast in a beautiful conversation about discovering our authentic voices through different mediums of expression. She shares her journey into improvisation through the piano, her process as a composer, and the challenges of knowing how and when to let go.
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Birds in Berlin 🌚 @boulezsaal@juilliardstringquartet
When I was 19 I spent the summer in Berlin, studying composition formally for the first time. This experience shattered my being (in the most fantastic, irreversible way). Discovering Rilke and opera for the first time, running at Schlachtensee, and erasing my work at a piano in the basement of a random house (yes, erasing) because I had yet to discover how to record my improvisations. I felt a deep ache within me to write, but I was terrified (I still feel this so much of the time). It took me many years to find the courage to pursue composing with the ferocity it demands.
I feel so lucky to be able to hear this piece evolve, and how surreal to be able to experience this in Berlin ❤️ Thank you @aretazhulla@violinard@mollycarrviola@astridcello for your daring, vulnerable, poetic playing…and what a special audience. I will never forget your Cavatina!
🌸 Just finished a lovely two weeks jumping in as guest concertmaster with @ondif Merci mes nouveaux amis, for the warm welcome and heartfelt playing 🌸 Elgar concerto with @emmanuellebertrand.cellist (who is a poet) and Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet with Jamie Phillips (who is a delight - and created a new arrangement). Bravo à tous!
Chamber Music Pittsburgh celebrates Womens History Month by honoring the voices of femme artists and composers. Today we shine the spotlight on Michelle Barzel Ross, a Grammy Award-winning violinist, composer, and improviser, whose music-making has been hailed as "affecting" (The New Yorker), "gorgeous" (The New York Times), and "nobly shaped and impeccably sustained" (The San Francisco Chronicle).
On March 30, the Juilliard String Quartet will be performing Michelle Barzel Ross’s Birds on the Moon, a piece that "leads the audience through an ever-shifting audioscape of melodic motifs, imitations of natural sounds and startling effects that are unexpected, yet familiar, as in a dream" (Spokane Spokesman-Review).
Magic! Bravo mes amis!! Stunning recital by Christian-Pierre La Marca and Jean Frédéric Neuburger 💙💙💙 and the first time my music has been played in the UK ✨I could listen to them forever
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Our concert is on @radiofrance ! Thank you @oksana.lyniv for a Dvorak 8 filled with nostalgia and character 💙 honored to have been guest concertmaster with @orchestredeparis ✨
“little bells” premieres tonight in Philadelphia!!! This short quartet is inspired by the joy, sweet sadness and mystery which lingers in the ending of “le petit prince”. Commissioned by and written for @jasperquartet to celebrate their 20th season 💙💙💙 while I am sad not to be able to attend in person, I am extremely touched that this piece is being brought to life by such a beautiful, sensitive ensemble. I never imagined writing my third string quartet.. 🙏🏻💜✨
