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Nell Shaw Cohen (b. 1988) was born in San Francisco and raised in California and New York. Ms. Cohen is currently studying with Michael Gandolfi at New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. She has particular interest in music for voices and small chamber ensembles, and plans to move into orchestral music and opera in the coming years.
Before shifting her focus to chamber music, Ms. Cohen developed proficiency performing and composing classically-influenced progressive rock music (singing and playing guitar, bass, keyboard and drums), largely self-taught. In 2006 she produced an original album titled "Tempus" (under the name Nell James). It received favorable reviews in the U.S. and abroad. For more information on "Tempus" and other past recordings, visit http://nelljames.com.
This website features recordings and scores of recent compositions. Contact Ms. Cohen at nell@nellshawcohen.com
** News **
June 2008 - I have been added to the artist roster of the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation, an international charitable organization that supports "emerging artists of exceptional talent". I was selected by Swiss Global after having presented recordings of my music at their 4th Annual Playhouse Project master class and benefit concert, for which I was awarded the Elizabeth Brockman Award in composition.
The Playhouse Project benefit concert was covered in the Southampton Press. Read the full article online. The Press wrote that: "["Time-Lapse" and "Memory"] are "both melodious and thoughtfully constructed works that impressed with their maturity."
The concept of this work is essentially in the title: it's meant to give the sense of a length of time (hours, days or years) passing in a condensed period. |
Jacqueline Leclair, English Horn (Members of Alarm Will Sound, Fireworks Ensemble and Invert). |
Time-Lapse - Recorded November 2007 at John Kilgore Sound & Recording in New York, NY
Engineered by John Kilgore
(L-R: Chris Jenkins, Nell, Jacqueline Leclair, Bill Kalinkos, Leigh Stuart)
This is a setting of an excerpt from St. Augustine's "Confessions" about memory and sense (in an English translation by Henry Chadwick). Read complete text (in new window). I wrote an essay about the process of composing this piece. You can read it at my journal. |
Kris Gould, Soprano |
Recorded September 2007 at John Kilgore Sound & Recording in New York, NY
Engineered by Patrick Ford, Mixed by John Kilgore
Special thanks to Kim D. Sherman
Nell and her performers peruse the score.
(L-R: John Olund, Kurt-Owen Richards, Nell (seated), Lawrence Lipnik, Kris Gould)
© 2008 Nell Shaw Cohen
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