Piano/violin duo. Melody Fader and Emilie-Anne Gendron

J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Sonata for violin and piano in c minor, BWV 1017

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in D Major, op. 12 no. 1

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) D'un matin de printemps, Nocturne, Cortege

Pianist Melody Fader enjoys a busy career as a soloist, chamber musician, vocal and dance accompanist, and interdisciplinary collaborative artist in New York City. Ms. Fader has performed throughout the United States as a soloist and chamber musician, and in such New York venues as Alice Tully Hall, The Joyce Theater, The New York Times Center, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Her performances in those venues have been called “sumptuous” and “stirring,” noting she “plays with elegance” (The New York Times), and “masterful” (Pointe Magazine).

Her newest project, Melody and Company Chamber Series, began in 2015 and continues to thrive, having won grants from the Queens Council on the Arts and the Puffin Foundation, and performing multiple times each year. Her Trio, the Fader-Gendron-Haas Trio performed at the Shandelee Music festival in 2022.

Ms. Fader is the resident pianist with New Chamber Ballet, performing regularly at Mark Morris Dance Center, and has appeared with many dance companies including Dance Theatre of Harlem, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Buglisi Dance Theater, FJK Dance and New York Theater Ballet, at dance venues including the Miller Theater, the Joyce Theater and St. Mark’s Church and New York Live Arts.. She has also toured the country as the Company Pianist for the Dance Theatre of Harlem. In 2019, Fader performed Bach for a ballet commissioned for Stars of American Ballet, set on New York City Ballet Principal Dancers Teresa Reichlen and Russell Janzen, at the Dance Against Cancer event at Lincoln Center and the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe. Other performances include a U.S. embassy sponsored recital tour of Chile with Soprano Elisa Cordova and chamber music concerts presented by the Chopin Foundation in Florida.

Fader has performed internationally in Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, England, Canada, Korea and Chile and at the Spoleto Festival in Italy, Aspen Music Festival, Chautauqua, International Festival Institute at Round Top, and the Scotia Festival of Music. She is a Coleman Chamber Ensemble competition prizewinner, and an Aspen Concerto competition prizewinner, and was a concerto soloist with the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra as well as the Aspen Conductor’s Orchestra.

Ms. Fader earned her Master’s Degree in Music in Collaborative Piano at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Margo Garrett. She has been selected to perform numerous times in Alice Tully Hall’s “Wednesdays at 1”, and “Evening of Chamber Music” series, as well as at the Juilliard Vocal Honors recital and also performed at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. Before working on her advanced degree, Fader was a resident artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. While earning her Bachelor’s Degree in Music in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music, she performed concertos with student orchestras, played solo recitals, and appeared numerous times on Buffalo Public Radio’s “Opus Classics Live” broadcast series.

Ms. Fader currently serves on the faculty of the Greenwich House Music School in NYC. She has also worked as a staff accompanist at Juilliard, Mannes and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Bowdoin International Music Festival and Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp, and held a collaborative piano internship at the Banff Centre.

Lauded by the New York Times as a “brilliant soloist” and by The Strad for her “marvellous and lyrical playing,” violinist Emilie-Anne Gendron enjoys an active and versatile career based in New York City. She is a member and one of the concertmasters of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; the Momenta Quartet (currently quartet-in-residence at Binghamton University), whose vision encompasses contemporary music of all backgrounds alongside great music from the past; and has been on the roster of the Marlboro Music Festival and the touring Musicians from Marlboro since 2011. Ms. Gendron also appears frequently with Talea Ensemble, A Far Cry, New Asia Chamber Music Society, Sejong, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. In addition to frequently leading Orpheus, Ms. Gendron has served as concertmaster of the Iris Collective, Sejong, and Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, among others. She is a founding member of Ensemble Échappé, a new-music sinfonietta, as well as the Gamut Bach Ensemble, in residence with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Her extensively varied international appearances have included recitals in Sweden and at the Louvre in Paris; festivals in Russia, Finland, and Jordan; and recently, major venues in China, South Korea, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia.

As an educator and clinician, Ms. Gendron has been a member of the Toomai String Quintet, specializing in educational outreach and community engagement, since 2009. Toomai (one of the pilot ensembles in Carnegie Hall’s “Musical Connections” program) helped design composition and performance workshops with incarcerated men at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, and has worked with student composers in the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers Program and with NYC public school students through the “Midori and Friends” educational initiative. As a member of the Momenta Quartet, Ms. Gendron gives guest masterclass and coaching appearances on their educational-performing circuit of nearly 40 institutions ranging from public and arts schools, universities, and conservatories in the U.S. and as far afield as Bolivia, Indonesia, and Mexico. Ms. Gendron has also served as guest chamber music coach for the Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program and at the Longy School of Music; as violin specialist for student composers at Juilliard’s Evening Division, NYU, and Fordham University; and as a coach and performer at the annual Composers Conference.

Born in the U.S. to Japanese and French-Canadian parents, and a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, Ms. Gendron was trained at the Juilliard School where her teachers were Won Bin Yim, Dorothy DeLay, David Chan, and Hyo Kang. She holds a B.A. in Classics from Columbia University (magna cum laude and with Phi Beta Kappa honors), and a Master of Music degree and the coveted Artist Diploma from Juilliard. For more information, please visit www.emilieannegendron.com.

Ms. Gendron plays on a 2016 Samuel Zygmuntowicz violin on loan from the Five Partners Foundation, and a 1673 Jacob Stainer violin on loan from the Englewood Chamber Players.

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Melody Fader

Emilie-Anne Gendron

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