About Me
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Described as a “charismatic and captivating performer,” Ashleigh Gordon has recorded with Switzerland's Ensemble Proton and Germany's Ensemble Modern; performed with Grammy-award winning BMOP and Grammy-nominated A Far Cry string ensemble; appeared at the prestigious BBC Proms Festival with the Chineke! Orchestra and at Carnegie Hall with the Gateways Music Festival among numerous ensembles. Comfortable on an international stage, she has performed in such venues as the Royal Albert and Royal Festival Halls (London), Konzerthaus Berlin and Oper Frankfurt (Germany), Gare du Nord and Dampfzentrale Bern (Switzerland), Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the Lee Hysan Concert Hall (Hong Kong)
Ashleigh is co-founder, Artistic Director and violist of Castle of our Skins, a Boston-based concert and educational series devoted to celebrating Black Artistry through music. In recognition of her work, she has been featured in the Boston Globe and NYTimes, and awarded the 2016 Charles Walton Diversity Advocate Award from the American Federation of Musicians. She is a 2019 Brother Thomas Fellow, a nominee for the 2020 "Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities,” and named one of WBUR’s “ARTery 25”, twenty-five millennials of color impacting Boston’s arts and culture scene.
As an advocate of social change, Ashleigh has presented lectures on citizen artistry and entrepreneurship, workshops for fellow educators on Caribbean and African American folksongs and children playsongs, guest lectured at numerous colleges and conservatories, and frequently appears as a panelist discussing topics of diversity in classical music. She is a Board of Director for Project STEP, a rigorous string training organization for Black and Latino youth, and serves on the Steering Committee for the Boston Cultural Leaders Coalition, a near 40-member strong arts and cultural movement dedicated to intersectional racial justice and equity in the City of Boston.
Ashleigh is a graduate from the New England Conservatory, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt, and Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. Her primary teachers include Carol Rodland and Louise Zeitlin. She can be heard on chamber music and orchestral recordings under the Mode, Siemens, BMOP/Sound, Navona, Musiques-Suisse record labels. Her most recent recording Homage: Chamber Music of the African Continent and Diaspora, can be purchased on the London-based Lorelt record label and features pianist-musicologist Dr. Samantha Ege and Castle of our Skins. For more information, please visit www.violashe.com and www.castleskins.org.
Ashleigh is co-founder, Artistic Director and violist of Castle of our Skins, a Boston-based concert and educational series devoted to celebrating Black Artistry through music. In recognition of her work, she has been featured in the Boston Globe and NYTimes, and awarded the 2016 Charles Walton Diversity Advocate Award from the American Federation of Musicians. She is a 2019 Brother Thomas Fellow, a nominee for the 2020 "Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities,” and named one of WBUR’s “ARTery 25”, twenty-five millennials of color impacting Boston’s arts and culture scene.
As an advocate of social change, Ashleigh has presented lectures on citizen artistry and entrepreneurship, workshops for fellow educators on Caribbean and African American folksongs and children playsongs, guest lectured at numerous colleges and conservatories, and frequently appears as a panelist discussing topics of diversity in classical music. She is a Board of Director for Project STEP, a rigorous string training organization for Black and Latino youth, and serves on the Steering Committee for the Boston Cultural Leaders Coalition, a near 40-member strong arts and cultural movement dedicated to intersectional racial justice and equity in the City of Boston.
Ashleigh is a graduate from the New England Conservatory, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt, and Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. Her primary teachers include Carol Rodland and Louise Zeitlin. She can be heard on chamber music and orchestral recordings under the Mode, Siemens, BMOP/Sound, Navona, Musiques-Suisse record labels. Her most recent recording Homage: Chamber Music of the African Continent and Diaspora, can be purchased on the London-based Lorelt record label and features pianist-musicologist Dr. Samantha Ege and Castle of our Skins. For more information, please visit www.violashe.com and www.castleskins.org.