Originally from upstate New York, violist A s h l e i g h  G o r d o n has performed

throughout the United States, Paris, France and Florence, Italy on Radio Papesse.  She

is an active performer of classical and contemporary music with a solo and chamber

music repertoire ranging from Bach, Schubert and Debussy to Cage, Gubadulina and

Sciarrino.  A s h l e i g h has performed with the Callithumpium Consort in Jordan

Hall, the Juventas New Music Ensemble at the Mahaney Center for the Arts at

Middlebury College, the Xanthos and Ludovico new music ensembles throughout

Boston as well as part of the Brandeis University "Bernstein Festival of the Arts."  Her

strong desire to promote new music has led her to work with such composers as Chaya

Czernowin, Krzysztof Penderecki, Steve Reich, David Lang, Christian Wolff, Frederic

Rzewski, and Augusta Read Thomas among others.

Also active in the orchestral field, A s h l e i g h has performed with the Plymouth

Pops (NH), Atlantic Symphony (MA), Pierre Monteux School Orchestra (ME), Ohio

Light Opera Company and Glens Falls Symphony (NY), with whom she has recorded

under Mode Record Label.  Off stage, A s h l e i g h maintains an active violin and viola

studio at the South Shore Conservatory and teaches through the Boston Symphony

Youth Orchestras' Intensive Community Program.

A s h l e i g h is a graduate of the New England Conservatory where she earned her

Masters Degree while studying with Carol Rodland.  Other primary teachers

have included Louise Zeitlin and Jeffrey Irvine with supplemental solo and chamber

music studies with Peter Slowik, Karen Ritscher, Stephen Drury, Eric Rosenblith and

Mai Motobuchi of the Borromeo String Quartet.