Guy Fishman and Renée Hemsing in Concert

Renée Hemsing, a native of Los Alamos, New Mexico, specializes in chamber music and early music performance on both violin and viola. This season she performs the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Seraphic Fire, and others. Dr. Hemsing earned her doctorate at the University of Colorado where her string quartet, the Ajax Quartet, was graduate Quartet-in-Residence with the Takacs Quartet. She earned her masters at the University of North Texas with Emanuel Borok where she also studied baroque violin with Cynthia Roberts, and her bachelors from the University of New Mexico under renowned Brazilian soloist Cármelo de los Santos. In addition to her primary instructors, Renée’s mentors include Brandon Chui, Paul Kantor, Charles Wetherbee, and David Halen. She performs on a beautiful early-18th century Dutch violin on generous loan to her.

Guy Fishman is heard as a soloist, recitalist, chamber, and orchestral musician on period and standard cello. Guy has played with Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish, Eliot Fisk, Daniel Stepner, Lara St. John, Vadim Gluzman, Richard Egarr, Kim Kashkashian, Mark Peskanov and Natalie Merchant in recital, performs with ensembles such as Bach Akademie Charlotte and Serpahic Fire, and appears at summer festivals such as Boulder Bach, Colorado Music Festival, and Connecticut Early Music. His teachers include David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Julia Lichten, and Laurence Lesser of the New England Conservatory, where he earned a Doctorate and also serves on the faculty. In addition, he is a Fulbright Fellow, mentoring with famed Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma in Amsterdam. His recordings appear on Olde Focus, Centaur, CORO, Telarc, Titanic, and Newport Classics labels. Guy plays a rare cello made in Rome in 1704 by David Tecchler.