Kirsten Jermé in Concert at the Gregg Gardens

1903 Hillsborough Street,Raleigh NC 27607

04 June, 2021

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Kirsten Jermé, Cellist – In Concert at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design Garden Featuring selected movements from J.S. Bach's Suite No.1 in G majorLera Auerbach's La Suite dels Ocells: Hommage à Pablo Casals (2015) Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's Lamentations: Black/Folk Song Suite (1980).Cellist Kirsten Jermé leads a multi-faceted life as a performer and educator.  An avid chamber musician, she has appeared internationally from Harlaxton College in England to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, Weill Hall in NYC and Accademia Chigiana in Siena.  As cellist of the Larchmere String Quartet, she performed across the U.S., Canada and Italy and recorded for Naxos.  Kirsten was also cellist of the Eykamp String Quartet, Faculty Artists-in-Residence at the University of Evansville, and Principal Cellist of the Evansville Philharmonic.  As a freelancer in New York, she has performed at Carnegie and Zankel Halls, the Joyce Dance Theater, Madison Square Garden and the United Nations. Kirsten serves as cello faculty at North Carolina State University and has given masterclasses at numerous universities including UNC-Chapel Hill, Western Kentucky University and Otterbein.  Passionate about chamber music pedagogy, she has been on faculty for the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute, Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop and Kidznotes, and recently served as Director of the Honors Chamber Music Division of Lamar Stringfield Music Camp in Raleigh. Kirsten received her M.M. at Eastman School of Music and B.A. from Stony Brook University.  She is currently pursuing her D.M.A. at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City and is an adjunct teaching assistant at Brooklyn College.