Pianist Natasha Mah and cellist Ashima Scripp have been performing together since 2002. The young duo is committed to programming great but rarely heard works for cello and piano highlighting their historical and stylistic significance. This season the duo featured a program of music from Spain, France and Latin America that combines native folk music with western forms. Dedicated to showcasing new and exciting contemporary works, the duo interweaves classical music past and present. This season the duo will perform across the U.S. with a special live broadcast performance on WFMT Chicago as part of the PianoForte Salon Series. Last season the duo was featured on the Faculty Performing Artist Recital Series at Boston’s Longy School of Music and at Washington DC’s prestigious Phillips Collection Sunday Concert Series as well as other venues.

Both artists have received numerous awards and distinctions for their performances and have appeared in concert across the US and abroad as soloists and chamber musicians. The artists have been featured at the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Westchester Chamber Music Society, Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, and Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute among others. The artists have also performed live on Chicago’s WFMT, Boston’s WGBH, and Los Angeles’ KMOZART.

Ms. Mah has collaborated with internationally renowned vocal artists Jane Bunnell, Marc Embree, Sherrill Milnes and the late William Warfield. She has taught and accompanied at the National High School Music Institute at Northwestern University, the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival & Institute in Oneonta, NY, and the Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, MI. Ms. Mah has also held a term as visiting lecturer at Northwestern University as choral department accompanist, and has been a staff vocal accompanist at the DePaul University School of Music in Chicago. Ms. Scripp is a member of the critically acclaimed Walden Chamber Players based in Boston, MA. As a member of the group, she performs a variety of chamber music repertoire at some of the most distinguished series in the country. She has recently released a recording with the great jazz pianist/composer Claire Ritter and will be releasing a CD of the chamber music of Augusta Read Thomas in the spring of 2008. Ms. Scripp is a member of the cello and chamber music faculty of the Longy School of Music and Concord Academy.