Emily Price, cello, voice and metalophone, a little Boss Loop Pedal, and sometimes the homemade record player
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FOR BOOKING, and other really nice things, PLEASE CONTACT: emilyhopeprice@gmail.com
Influences
Rick Gribenas, Sarah Vaughan, Radiohead, Joanna Newsom, Joni Mitchell, Bjork, Nina Simone, Feist, Tori Amos, Edgar Meyer, Jaqueline Du Pre, early Barbra Streisand, Rufus Wainwright...more, more, more, more...
Sounds Like
A slice of juicy celloness plays in the background while Ella Fitzgerald has tea with Sarah Vaughan and Joni Mitchell... then Zoe Keating and Edgar Meyer bring glazed fruit pies wth Love while Bjork and Radiohead have brunch on a Sunday morning with Joanna Newsom...later that night they sleep, sleep, sleep.
"...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, sampling and improvising 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
Emily Hope Price went to school for classical cello for a long time when, one day, she thought it might be nice to write and sing her own music for cellos, xylophones and accordions 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 from early 1920s ballads, thanks to her dad, to majorly crushing Michael Jackson in kindergarten (saving 300 pennies to buy a M.J. bio-book at the school book fair) to 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.
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. Since graduating, she has performed and recorded for musicians and recording studios all over the east coast and abroad.
Emily does constant live performances and collaborations with countless New York City musicians with whom she also records, traveling all over the East Coast, writing and arranging cello parts for pretty, slow songs and grungy, fast songs. She is in constant demand as a performer, collaborator, teacher, and studio cellist and has worked with musicians like Nadia Ali, The Hold Steady's Franz Nicolay, harpist Bridget Kibbey, Dan Torres, 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, Gramercy Theatre, Le Poisson Rouge, Rockwood Music Hall, Southpaw, Union Hall), Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Miami, Chicago, Egypt, and throughout England, Germany and Romania. Emily Hope Price can be seen all around New York and the East Coast performing her solo work. She is also a member of the Brooklyn-based indie-folk trio Pearl and the Beard, who released their first full-length album, God Bless Your Weary Soul, Amanda Richardson, spring of 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
That Scott Urgola thing is all mastered and he's working on the artwork. Should be done soon. The track you played on is #2 and it is really beautiful! I hope to find an excuse to get you up here again some time soon. Happy autumn and see you soon. Love and respect from Fred at Woody's House..... :)
Forget sushi plans, let's plan on getting me and my friends to that show! ;) Kidding, Sushi would be absolutely delightful. Arriving Sunday between 5-6 at ahh sushi would be ideal per it is half off everything except drinks, nigiri and sashimi. When and where is your show and where do I get tickets ;) Can't wait to see you again and your fabulous performance ;)
Yes indeed, cello in folk is a rare thing. Hopefully we'll meet up yeah that would be good. I love you loops they're really cool and it's great that you acompany yourself that way... what equipment do you use for that? x
"...intriguingly imaginative cellist/composer..." - Lucid Culture, June 2009
