Advance reservations for this event are NOW CLOSED.
Drop-in guests are welcome to stop by the Newport Art Museum and will be scheduled on a space available basis.
“I LOVED having a one-to-one experience with the Newport String Project at Newport Art Museum. Truly magical.” - Denise M
Back by popular demand, these personalized concerts pair one musician with an individual or small group audience for an engaging performance experience. One to One features musicians from the Newport String Quartet, NSP’s resident ensemble, as well as guest artists from throughout New England. Audiences will enjoy 15 minute concerts in an array of unique settings provided by our community partners: The Newport Art Museum, The Newport Historical Society, The Newport Performing Arts Center, and Downtown Designs.
Performances will be held throughout the day on
Sunday, September 24th, 10am-4pm
Advance reservations for this event are NOW CLOSED.
Drop-in guests are welcome to stop by the Newport Art Museum and will be scheduled on a space available basis.
Reservations for this event are by donation, with a suggested donation of $25. Concert-goers attending multiple Micro Concerts are invited to make a donation at a level of their choosing.
If making a donation is not within your budget at this time, we very much hope that you will still join us as our guest for Micro Concerts for All! NSP is committed to ensuring that ticket price is not a barrier to inspiring and excellent performances.
All donations are gratefully accepted and can be made by clicking HERE
The Newport String Quartet are delighted to be joined by the wonderful lineup of guest musicians for One to One. To learn more about the Newport String Quartet, click here.
Armand Aromin, Multi-Instrumentalist
Armand is a chronic multi-instrumentalist, percussive dancer, and violin maker based in Providence, Rhode Island. More importantly, his first name is pronounced like the brand Arm & Hammer. He often incorporates aspects of his experience as a queer Filipino American into the music he creates, and enjoys making it a collaborative experience. He is one-half of The Vox Hunters, a quarter of Eight Feet Tall, and at least a third of The Ivy Leaf. He proudly owns Aromin Violins, a tiny workshop within five paces of the bedroom.
Zan Berry,
Cellist
Providence based cellist and songwriter, Zan Berry, is a passionate and creative musician who weaves together diverse musical interests in his work as a performer and educator. With a ceaseless curiosity for exploring new musical contexts for his instrument and collaborating with local artists across disciplines, Zan strives for a more creative, connected, and accessible arts community in Providence. More at zanberrycello.com.
Harper Brinkley,
Cellist
Artist and instrumentalist Harper Brinkley (he/him) takes on the work of reflection: listening for listening’s sake, and gleaming back deeper perspectives towards our collective clarity and insight. As an historical and experimental musician, he works within, without, and between idioms to challenge their structures and appreciate their possibilities. Harper prizes freedom. He writes poetry and delights in contra dance. He has particular interest in supporting people with disabilities in his teaching practice due to his own experience navigating mental wellness with a neurological hand tremor. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Harper attended Oberlin College and Conservatory where he graduated with degrees in religion and cello performance. He was chosen as a fellow of the Next Festival of Emerging Artists in 2023, and has been a participant over multiple summers at both the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music and Madeleine Island Chamber Music. Harper resides now in Brooklyn, New York.
Emily Edelstein,
Violinist
Emily Edelstein is a Providence-based musician originally from Lexington, Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Viola Performance from Oberlin Conservatory in 2018 under the tutelage of Kirsten Docter, and spent the last three years as the Resident Violist of the Newport String Project. Emily also served as the violist onboard Holland America Cruise Lines where she represented the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as part of a piano quintet. She is a passionate banjo player, vocalist, and songwriter whose work is inspired by American roots music, the natural world, and the connections that bind us. Emily is a founding member of the chamber-folk band Quartet Davis, whose music is grounded in improvisation and play. In 2020, Quartet Davis released their first album of original works, music from Scandinavian traditions and music from blues traditions. When not playing music, she enjoys rock climbing, learning Yiddish, and playing with her cat.
Pablo Escalante,
Multi-Instrumentalist
Pablo Escalante (Pol Escalante) is from Medellín, Colombia and currently resides in Providence, RI. He is a graphic designer/photographer by profession, but his real passions are music and instrument making. Pol is primarily a singer songwriter / sitarist/ producer/ sound engineer, but also plays many instruments from all over the world such as Native Flute, Saz, Shamisen, Sarod, etc. These instruments add many flavors and hints of traditions to his original and versatile styles of music. He is also a founding member of Humming Owl, a duo with his wife - violinist, singer and composer, Roseminna Watson.
Marji Gere, Violinist
Marji Gere is a violinist based in Somerville, MA. She and her husband Dan Sedgwick are co-founders of Around Hear, an organization with the mission to enrich the life of the City of Somerville by offering innovative, uplifting, free chamber music concerts and community music classes to generationally, culturally, and economically diverse audiences. Toward the goal of offering their listeners multiple entry points into the ever-expanding, expressive realm of classical music, they have cultivated an artistic language which interweaves chamber music with a variety of art forms, including: dance, puppetry, theater, storytelling, visual art, video, poetry, as well as non-classical musical styles. Marji grew up among free-thinking musicians in Davenport, Iowa and studied at University of Iowa and Harvard University. When she is not playing and teaching music, Marji is working on her first novel, which features a cast of eight talkative pigeons.
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, Violinist
EmmaLee co-founded the Newport String Project with Ealain in 2012. Her leadership and artistry over the course of seven years played a major role in shaping the organization that the Newport String Project is today.
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks grew up on an organic farm where her first audience was her flock of sheep. As she grew into a full-size violin, EmmaLee, with that expressive instrument in hand, made her way onto the stage as soloist with symphonies and then on to Carnegie Hall. Armed with degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and SUNY Stony Brook, EmmaLee serves as principal second violinist of the New Bedford Symphony and as a busy chamber player she performs with Verdant Vibes New Music Collective, South Coast Chamber Players, and more. She is on faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Jesse Holstein, Violinist & Violist
Jesse Holstein, violinist and violist, has been a Resident Musician at CMW since 2001. He was a founding member of the Providence String Quartet. Prior to studying with Marilyn McDonald at Oberlin and James Buswell at New England Conservatory, he worked with Philipp Naegele in Northampton, MA. Jesse is currently concertmaster of the New Bedford Symphony. He has performed at the Bravo! Festival in Vail, Colorado, the Montana Chamber Music Festival, the Bay Chamber Concerts, the Worcester Chamber Music Society, The South Coast Chamber Music Series, the Rhode Island Chamber Music Concerts, and the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, among others. In 2009 Jesse was a Violin Professeur at L’Ecole de Musique, Dessaix Baptiste in Haiti and is currently on the faculty at Brown University. One of his interests is how Buddhist mindfulness practice and meditation intersects with teaching and performing music..
Victoria Pan, Violinist
From Charlotte, North Carolina, Victoria Pan began her studies on the violin at age four. Her past teachers have included David Russell, Weiwei Le, Hye-jin Kim, Ara Gregorian, and Miriam Fried. She has had the pleasure to solo with both the Charlotte Symphony and Charleston Symphony Orchestras and has attended summer festivals such as Kneisel Hall, the Heifetz Institute, the Taos School of Music, Banff Centre for the Arts, and Music in the Vineyards. She was also a member of Highland St., a quartet which won the Honors Ensemble Competition at NEC 2017-2018. Pan recently received her graduate diploma from New England Conservatory studying with Donald Weilerstein.
Roseminna Watson,
Violinist
Roseminna Watson, best known as a classical violinist, has recently begun to emerge as a singer, composer, and multimedia artist as well. Ms. Watson is fascinated by the human body as a vehicle that can carry us closer to the divine. Her artistry is imbued with haunting immediacy. She is a member of the Providence-based new music collective Verdant Vibes and, founder of the Pandemic Polyphony project, and curator of the Cape Cod concert series MUSIC IN THE STUDIO in collaboration with painter Cammie Watson. She holds a B.A in Visual Art from Yale University, an M.M. in Violin Performance from Stony Brook University, and an A.D. in Chamber Music from San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is the former first violinist of the prize-winning Aiana String Quartet.
Ms. Watson has recently returned from performing the world premieres of two commissioned works — Crucible / Beloved for violin and voice, and Triptych, A Priori : Logic of the Interior for violin, clarinet, piano and track. roseminnawatson.com
Katia Sofia Waxman,
Clarinetist
Chicago native Katia Sofia Waxman is a clarinetist and arts educator based in New York City. Equally at home with music new and old, Katia enjoys a diverse musical life of solo, small, and large ensemble playing.
An avid chamber musician, Katia has garnered awards from the M-Prize, Discover, and Barnett chamber music competitions. She has also deepened her love for small ensemble playing through annual studies at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music (NH).
Committed to shaping a more diverse and equitable classical music landscape, Katia was selected to participate in the pilot class of Oberlin Conservatory’s Music Leadership Career Community. She currently holds a teaching fellowship with Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program, a tuition-free pre-college program for students from historically underrepresented backgrounds.
Katia received a B.A. in economics and a B.M. in clarinet performance from Oberlin College & Conservatory, where she studied with Richard Hawkins. She is currently pursuing a Master of Music at The Juilliard School, where she studies with Jon Manasse.
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