"...intriguingly imaginative cellist/composer..." - Lucid Culture, June 2009
"If you are lucky, cellist Price will grace you with a solo performance. I can’t say enough about her talent and the impact of amplifying modern lyrics with a classical instrument. It’s hypnotic." - SoHo Journal
"Emily Hope Price is an extremely versatile musician, popular in the Anti-Folk scene in New York City. She brings new depth to cello performance by adding many effects such as looping, distortion, smapling and imporvising on the spot." The Racquette- SUNY Potsdam News
"Emily Hope Price, a cellist, makes some of the craziest sounds come out of that thing. She shreds the cello, and now we're jello, ba-by." - L Magazine
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Emily Hope went to school for classical cello for a long time, when one day, she realized how happy it made her to write and sing her own music for cellos and xylophones about big songs and little loves... and how great it is to do it all l i v e...
With a love of lots of different kinds of music (growing up with oldies from the 1920-1960s thanks to her dad and majorly crushing Michael Jackson in kindergarten- saving 300 pennies to buy a M.J. bio-book at the school book fair...) and the fantastic wonderment of composers like Part, Riech, Cage, and Crumb, Emily writes little songs about tragedies and sounds, heavy souls and thick colors... she also writes lonely cello songs that involve a little cellistic experimentation like acoustic distortion, multi-tracking, looping, sampling, with improvisation.
Emily also does frequent studio work for other musicians in New York City and surrounding areas, writing and arranging cello parts for pretty, slow songs and grungy, fast songs. She has performed with and recorded for many great musicians in all parts of the country and has more recently been seen digging the groove with Brooklyn based band Pearl and the Beard (myspace.com/pearlandthebeard).
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In 2004, Emily received a master's degree in Cello Performance from Carnegie Mellon University studying with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Principle cellist Anne-Martindale Williams and PSO Associate cellist David Premo. Emily relocated to complete a one year post-graduate program in cello performance at SUNY Purchase with cellist Julia Lichten of The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Emily is in constant demand as a performer, collaborator, teacher, and studio cellist and has worked with such talents as Nadia Ali, Dan Torres, The Hold Steady's Franz Nicolay, harpist Bridget Kibbey, Anthony Da Costa, Red Molly's Abbie Gardner, and Wakey, Wakey! As a collaborator and soloist, she has performed on several national TV and radio broadcasts including NPR's Soundcheck with John Schaefer. She has performed in cities across the country and globe including New York (Bowery Ballroom, Le Poisson Rouge, Rockwood Music Hall, Southpaw, Union Hall), Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Miami, Chicago, and throughout England, Germany and Romania. Emily Hope Price can currently be seen all around New York performing her solo work. She is also a member of the Brooklyn-based folk-roots trio Pearl and the Beard , who is released their first full-length album on April 28, 2009. On June 1, 2009, she released her first solo studio-EP, The Crux and The Bluestocking.
Ivan Sandomire and Emily Hope Price cover Beruit at Cross Pollination at Pianos
Ivan Sandomire & Emily Hope Price @ Cross Pollination 4.14.09 from Leah Goldstein on Vimeo .