Beverly Au
Beverly Au
Secretary
Beverly Au concertizes, records, teaches, and commissions new works as a member of the acclaimed viol consort Parthenia, and has performed on music series including at the Shalin Liu Performing Arts Center, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale Center for British Art, Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, Maverick Concerts, Music Before 1800, the Harriman-Jewell Series, the Venice Biennale, The Berkeley Early Music Festival, and The National Gallery, and she has performed with groups such as Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, New York’s Ensemble for Early Music, Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts, The Mannes Camerata, the Masterworks Orchestra, and The American Classical Orchestra. She received graduate degrees in cello and viola da gamba from the Mannes College of Music under Paul Tobias, Timothy Eddy and Martha McGaughey, and studied with Wieland Kuijken in Innsbruck, Austria. Beverly has appeared on film (Al Pacino’s Looking For Richard), television, radio, on the Broadway stage (The Tempest, starring Patrick Stewart), and off-Broadway, including several ground-breaking theater pieces with the avant-garde ensemble, Time and Space Ltd. Her duo Spuyten Duyvil was semifinalist at the International Early Music Competition in Utrecht, The Netherlands. She was also a finalist in the Dorian/EMA recording competition as a member of the Ensemble for the Seicento. She has been a speaker at Chamber Music America’s National Conference, as an advocate of new music for viols. She has recorded on several labels, including Acis, MSR Classics, Evening Star, Gothic, and Buckyball Music. Beverly has served on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music, and has also taught at early music workshops around the country.
A graduate of Barnard College and the New York University School of Law, Beverly also practices law at Holwell Shuster and Goldberg, where she co-chairs the Asian Equality Taskforce, raising awareness and implementing initiatives to combat anti-Asian violence through education and activities to support the local Asian community. She has served on the board of the Chamber Music Center of New York for more than nine years, and is an enthusiastic former CMC parent.
