Photo by Thomas Hansen

Upcoming & Recent Performances

As Solo Cellist and/or Composer

• September 26, 2004, 4:30 p.m.: CD Release Concert, First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, MI
• September 26, 2004, 3 p.m.: Pinotage performs Sign Songs and More Sign Songs, Lake Forest, IL
• October 6-9, 2004, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
  Start performs during the conference of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies: "Bridges to Infinity", 20th Anniversary Celebration and International Symposium
• October 22, 2004, 25th New Music and Art Festival, Bowling Green State University:
  The critically-acclaimed Chicago-based ensemble Pinotage performs selections from Start's "Sign Songs" and "More Sign Songs"
• October 29, 2004, 8 p.m.: Chicago Composers’ Consortium, DePaul University, Chicago
• November 9, 2004, Pinotage performs Sign Songs, and More Sign Songs at the 2004 Festival of New American Music, California State University, Sacramento
• December 12, 2004, Elizabeth Start performs her own "Air Swiftly Flies", Laura Schwendinger's "Rapture", and premieres a new piece by Paul Chihara, for the Chicago Composers' Consortium, with pianist Helen Lukan
• February 15, 2005, Pinotage performs More Sign Songs on a guest artist recital at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
• March 9, 2005, soprano Diane Ragains and cellist Marc Johnson perform Three Songs in faculty recital at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
• May 5 & 7 2005, The German mandolin and guitar duo, Ahlert & Scwhab (www.ahlert-schwab.de), premiere Start's "Pale Cliffs" on Chicago Composers' Consortium concerts May 5,2005, 8 pm, at the Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston, and May 7,2005, 7:30 pm, at the Somnambulist Music Series in Chicago. They will also appear live on WFMT-FM on May 4 at 4 pm. www.c3composers.org
• May 4, 2005 Start's "Pale Cliffs" premiered live on Chicago's WFMT-FM
• May 5,7, 2005 Start's "Pale Cliffs" performed with the Chicago Composers' Consortium, on a concert by German duo Alhert and Schwab
• May 5, 2005 Start's "Echoes" is premiered by the Kalamazoo College Chamber Orchestra to great success at the Kalamazoo Juvenile Facility
• June 4,5, 2005 Start's "Echoes" is performed by the Kalamazoo College Chamber Orchestra
• September 25, 2005 Capriccio performs Start's "Bits-O-Bugs" at the University of Wisconsin-Richland
• September 25, 2005 Start participates in John Cage's Musicircus with the Chicago Composers Forum at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
• October 15, 2005 Start's electronic work "little girl" is performed on Chicago Composers' Consortium concert
• October 30, 2005 Start performs many of her works with the Chicago Composers' Consortium at Chicago's Green Mill
• December 01, 2005 Start performs interludes and underscores to poetry reading by Conrad Hilberry, Communtiy Arts Program at First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo
• December 19, 2005 Start performs her Divergence and Repercussions with the Chicago Composers' Consortium at the Roy O. Disney Hall at CalArts
• January 11, 2006 Start's "Duo" for English Horn and cello is performed on "the Definiens project" Crescent Series in Culver City, CA
• February 26, 2006, Unna, Germany, Duo Ahlert & Scwhab performs Start’s Pale Cliffs
• February 28 - March 3, 2006 Start's "Echoes" is performed by Rohan Krishnamurthy and the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra on their Kids Concert series.
• March 12, 2006 a new commissioned work for electric cello and acoustic instruments will be premiered on a CUBE concert in Chicago
• March 17, 2006 Start performs as cellist and composer with Chicago Composers Forum
• April 2, 2006 Start's Water Music is premiered by Corlyn and Joseph Schreck with the Kalamazoo Mandolin Orchestra, Community Arts Program at First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo
• May 1, 2006 Start's work for piano trio, Toward Dance, premiered by the Lincoln Trio in collaboration with the Chicago Composers' Consortium at the Music Center of Chicago in Evanston
• May 28 2006, Santa Cruz, CA, Trio Dagoba premieres Start’s Circuits
• June 8, 2006 at the Kalamazoo College Light Fine Arts Building, Barry Ross, Rohan Krishnamurthy and Leslie Tung premiere Start’s Migration
• June 9, 2006 7:00 p.m., Homer Community Center, Homer MI, Trio Dagoba performs Start’s Circuits
• June 10, 2006 7:00 p.m., Ann Arbor, MI Trio Dagoba performs Start’s Circuits
• June 11, 2006, 2:00 p.m.,First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, MI, Trio Dagoba performs Start’s Circuits
• June 16, 2006, 8 pm, Park Club of Kalamazoo, performs two sonatas by Gaetano Boni with Italian mandolin virtuoso Carlo Aonzo.
• July 7, 2006, Start performs her works as part of the Chicago Composers’ Consortium’s electronic party at Rubin Gallery, 3318 N. Halsted, Chicago
• September 16, 2006, Duo Breve performs Start’s “Bits-O-Bugs” at the College Music Society’s annual conference, San Antonio, TX
• October 14, 2006, Start premieres her work “Union” at Jon and Mary Beth’s wedding, Kalamazoo, MI
• October 22, 2006, Start premieres her duo “Knot” along with duos by Timothy Dwight Edwards and Miguel Kertsman, with David Murray, double bass, on a concert of the Chicago Composers’ Consortium, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
• October 29, 2006, Pinotage performs Start’s “More Sign Songs”, settings of poems by Conrad Hilberry, at the Sonic Impact event, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
• November 4, 2006, Capriccio (Donna Milanovich and Stephen Hartman) premieres Start’s “Unity” at the Frank Lloyd Wright Unity Temple concert series, Oak Park, IL
• November 5, 2006, Start and David Murray repeat October 22nd performances of Start’s “Knot” and duos by Edwards and Kertsman on Chicago Composers’ Consortium concert, Swedish American Museum Center, 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL
• December 9, 2006, Michigan Bach Collegium performs “Adam”, “Carol”, “The Animals”, and “Shepherd”, Start’s settings of Conrad Hilberry’s “Chirstmas” poems, Cathedral of Christ the King, Kalamazoo, MI. Start also performs on the program.
• January 22, 2007, premiere of “Toward Dance, Too” for piano quintet, Central European University, Budapest
• 2007 All Ears Radio Theatre with original music cues by Start on February 17, March 17, and April 7, performed at First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, delayed broadcast on WMUK 102.1-FM
• March, 2, 2007, premiere of “Masks” for electric cello and piano, Chicago Composers’ Consortium, Columbia College, Chicago (E. Start, cello, Lawrence Axelrod, piano)
• March 4, 2007, First Baptist Church Community Arts Program, Kalamazoo, MI, Carlo Aonzo and Rene Izquierdo perform Start’s Pale Cliffs for mandolin and guitar; Start also joins them in performing a work by Cauciello
• March 7, 2007, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Helen Bader Recital Hall, Milwaukee, WI, Carlo Aonzo and Rene Izquierdo perform Start’s Pale Cliffs for mandolin and guitar
• March 9, 2007, Madison, WI, Carlo Aonzo and Rene Izquierdo perform Start’s Pale Cliffs for mandolin and guitar
• March 15, 2007, Rohan Krishnamurthy and the String Orchestra of Kalamazoo, Barry Ross, conductor, premiere Start’s “Early Reflections” for mridangam (S. Indian drum) and strings. Also on program, Start’s “Echoes” for mridangam and strings
• March 22, 2007, Bargemusic, Brooklyn, NY, Carlo Aonzo and Rene Izquierdo perform Start’s Pale Cliffs for mandolin and guitar
• March 25, 2007, First Baptist Church chancel choir premieres Start’s “Look to the Lord and be Radiant” for SATB a cappella choir
• May 24, 2007, Portage Northern High School Concert Band premieres Start’s concert band arrangement of her own “Buoyancy”, originally for symphony orchestra
• August 9, 2007, Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Festival, Palmerston Place Church, the Sutherland Piano Quintet performs Start’s “Toward Dance, Too”
• August 12, 2007, Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Festival, “St. Giles’ at Six” series, the Sutherland Piano Quintet performs Start’s “Toward Dance, Too”
• November 8, 2007, Michigan Festival of Sacred Music, Start performs with Capriccio, and Capriccio performs Start’s “Unity” for flute, piccolo, harp and electric harp, commissioned and premiered by Capriccio in 2006
• November 16-18, 2007, Start performs as soloist with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, on electric cello, in her arrangement of Moreve/Kay’s 1960’s classic tune “Magic Carpet Ride” (11/16 in Schaumburg, IL, 11/17 and 18 in Elgin, IL)
• November 18, 2007, Chicago Composers’ Consortium concert: Eric Mandat premieres Start’s “Roundabout” for solo clarinet, and Start performs her solo cello pieces “Union” and “Elizabethan Fantasy”.
• January 27, 2008, Rohan Krishnamurthy performs Start’s “Early Reflections” and “Echoes” as mridangam (South Indian drum) soloist with the Lakeshore (Chicago) Symphony.
• February 9 and 23, and May 17 and 31, Start provides musical cues for performance/tapings of All Ears Theatre radio plays
• February 24, 2008, Rohan Krishnamurthy performs Start’s “Early Reflections” and “Echoes” as mridangam (South Indian drum) soloist with the McHenry County (IL) Youth Orchestra.
• March 13, 2008 the String Orchestra of Kalamazoo performs Start’s “Dreams of Summer” at Disciples of Christ Church, Kalamazoo
• March 14, 2008, the String Orchestra of Kalamazoo performs Start’s “Dreams of Summer” at First Congregational Church, Kalamazoo.
• March, 2008, Rohan Krishnamurthy and Ayano Ninomiya perform Start's new works for mridangam (South Indian drum) and violin in multiple venues:
  March 25 Valparaiso University
  March 26 Hope College
  
• April 9, 2008, Start performs her “Four Briefs” and “Elizabethan Fantasy” at her alma mater, Northern Illinois University School of Music
• April 13, 2008, repeat of Chicago Composers’ Consortium concert of November 18, 2007: Eric Mandat performs Start’s “Roundabout” for solo clarinet, and Start performs her solo cello pieces “Union” and “Elizabethan Fantasy”, during the new music festival at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
• April 14, 2008, Start performs her “Masks” for electric cello and piano, with Lawrence Axelrod, on a second Chicago Composers’ Consortium concert during the new music festival at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
• June 13, 2008, Detroit Inst. of Arts, Rohan Krishnamurthy and Ayano Ninomiya perform Start's new works for mridangam (South Indian drum) and violin
• August 12, 2008, Start performs with singer Emily Lodine and the flute/harp duo Capriccio on “Rush Hour” series concert at St James Cathedral in Chicago
• October 10, 2008, Start performs on Kalamazoo Bach Festival’s opening concert
• October 12, 2008, pianist Lawrence Axelrod premieres Start’s “Ain’t That Trillin’?”, on Chicago Composers’ Consortium concert “Mazurka Mania” at North Shore Baptist Church, 5224 N. Lakewood Ave., Chicago
• November 9, 2008, Start performs on the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music program “The Sound & Spirit of Kalamazoo”, hosted by PRI’s Ellen Kushner
• November 22, 2008, Start and Ben Aldrich premiere her “Three Pieces for Theremin and Electric Cello” on Chicago Composers’ Consortium concert at Columbia College, Chicago
• April 9, 2009, Start’s “Ain’t that Trillin’? A Mazurka” is performed by pianist Lawrence Axelrod on Southern Illinois University-Carbondale’s “Outside the Box” festival
• April 11, 2009, Start’s “Three Pieces for Theremin and Electric Cello” are performed by Start and thereminist Ben Aldrich on Southern Illinois University-Carbondale’s “Outside the Box” festival. Start also performs a solo cello work by Martha Horst and cello and electronics work by Timothy Edwards
• April 17, 2009, Eric Mandat performs Start’s “Roundabout” at University of Wisconsin-Madison Clarinet Festival. Start also performs her “Elizabethan Fantasy” and “A Love Song”, and solo work by Martha Horst, and premieres a new work by Lawrence Axelrod with Axelrod and Mandat.
• May 3, 2009, Start’s “Inspired by Mozart” is premiered at First Congregational Church, Kalamazoo, MI.
• May 11, 2009, Start’s “Camping in the Rafters” is premiered by Julia Miller and Lawrence Axelrod on Chicago Composers’ Consortium Cyber-Victorian Parlor Concert.

As Orchestral Cellist

• With the Elgin (IL) Symphony:
  August 1, 2008
  September 20, 2008
  October 3,4,5, 2008
  October 31 and November 1,2, 2008
  November 14,15,16, 2008
  December 6, 2008
  January 9,10,11, 2009
  February 6,7,8, 2009
  February 20,21,22, 2009
  March 6.7.8, 2009
  April 3,4,5, 2009
  April 14-19, 2009
  May 1,2,3, 2009
  June 12,13,14, 2009

• With the Kalamazoo (MI) Symphony
  October 17, 2008
  October 25, 2008
  November 8, 2008
  November 21, 2008
  January 17, 18, 2009
  February 14, 2009
  February 27, 2009
  March 22, 2009
  March 28, 2009
  May 17, 2009
  May 29, 2009
  

• With Early Music Michigan (formerly Michigan Bach Collegium)
  July 18 and 19, 2008, Start performs with Early Music Michigan, formerly the Michigan Bach Collegium, on the Fontana Chamber Arts summer series in Kalamazoo and Three Rivers.
  April 25, 2009
  May 29, 2009