The Strad, January 24, 2025
A new quartet remembers violist Roger Tapping
"US violinist and composer Michelle Barzel Ross’s new string quartet, written for the Juilliard Quartet, is dedicated to the ensemble’s late violist Roger Tapping. It was commissioned two years ago by John Kongsgaard from Chamber Music in Napa Valley, where the quartet has played for decades – as has the Takács Quartet, which Tapping formerly played with. ‘The layers go deep,’ says Ross, who herself studied and played with Tapping…" Read More
The Whale Song 
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Interview with the VIolin Channel
I Care If You Listen Video Premiere
Review by A Closer Listen
Written in loving memory of Roger Tapping. Commissioned by The Perlman Music Program.
Premiered on June 11, 2022 at The Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Music Workshop at The Jewish Center of the Hamptons
"Grammy Award-winning James Blachly conducted the superb Soloists from Experiential Orchestra. Michelle Ross’s playing of Fratres on violin brought the room into a sublime state of meditation with its lingering melodious tones of grace." Read more
"soloist Michelle Ross. The quick violin lines were crystalline, the slow orchestral refrains sublime…Ross’ violin seemed to take root and sprout through the room,…" Read more
August 20, 2021, 6 PM MT
Cellist Arlen Hlusko premieres Michelle Ross: Haiku
Episode 176: Michelle Ross
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Honored to contribute three prompts to my dear friend Suleika Jaouad's beautiful 100-day collective quarantine project: The Isolation Journals
Prompt #90:
The Virtue of Being Alone
Prompt #91:
A Voyage of Variations
Prompt #89:
Translating the Imagination
Please join us for Chamber Music @ Eleventh Street Arts: The Red Concert
Friday, January 31st at 7:30 pm, Queens, NY.
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Discovering Bach In the fall of 2015, I embarked on a 33 day journey with the solo works of J. S. Bach. I performed the complete cycle daily, in public spaces throughout the five boroughs of NYC. I chronicled my experience with daily essays, which you can find on the complete blog discoveringbach.com . I look forward to bringing this project to many more cities in the future. Learn More
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