BEVERLY AU, VIOLA DA GAMBA

Beverly Au performs regularly as a member of the well-known viol consort, Parthenia, including performances and collaborations with Paul O'Dette, Julianne Baird, Piffaro, ARTEK, The Four Nations Ensemble, Robert Mealy, Thomas Meglioranza, and Sarah Cunningham; she has also performed with Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, NY's Ensemble for Early Music, and The Americal Classical Orchestra. She received graduate degrees in cello and viola da gamba from the Mannes College of Music under Paul Tobias, Timothy Eddy and Martha McGaughey, and also studied with Wieland Kuijken in Innsbruck, Austria. Beverly has appeared on film (Al Pacino's Looking For Richard, television (PBS's City Arts), radio (WNYC), on the Broadway stage (The Tempest, starring Patrick Stewart), and off-Broadway (Romance of the Rose, The Ship of Fools, La Dafne, Semele, Dido and Aeneas, Cupid and Death, Venus and Adonis, all under the direction of the late Paul Echols; Blue Scene Gray, Flatlands Little Remarks, If Kansas Goes, Silent When Loaded, and Go Between Gettysburg, with Linda Mussman's noted avant-garde ensemble, Time and Space Ltd). Her duo Spuyten Duyvil was semifinalist at the International Early Music Competition in Utrecht, The Netherlands. She was also a finalist in the 2001 Dorian/EMA recording competition as a member of Ensemble for the Seicento. She has recorded on the MSR Classics, Evening Star, Gothic, Museovich and Buckyball Music labels.