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.
• October 25, 2009, Start’s “Ruminations” is performed on CUBE's "Sounding the Sacred" concert in Hyde Park (Chicago).
• November 15, 2009, Start’s “Ruminations” is performed on Michigan Festival of Sacred Music, Kalamazoo, MI.
• December 4, 2009, Start’s “Ruminations” is performed on IAWM concert at Sherwood Conservatory, Chicago.
• March 29, 2010, Start’s “Whirlwind” is performed on Southern Illinois University-Carbondale's “Outside the Box” festival.
• March 30, 2010, Start performs her “A Day Late and a Quarter-tone Short” at John Eaton 75th Birthday Tribute Concert, Sherwood Conservatory, Chicago. She also performs Eaton’s “Fantasy Romance” for cello and piano with Philip Morehead.
• April 23, 2010, Start’s “Whirlwind” is performed by SIU Percussion Ensemble on Chicago Composers’ Consortium concert, Sherwood Conservatory, Chicago.
• April 24, 2010, Start’s “Whirlwind” is performed by SIU Percussion Ensemble on Chicago Composers’ Consortium concert, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
• May 22, 2010, the Kalamazoo Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra premieres Start's Passacaglia at the Ladies Library Association, Kalamazoo, MI
• June 16, 2010, Carlo Aonzo premieres Start's mandolin concerto with the Kalamazoo Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, MI
• October 24, Start performs her Prayer and Meditation on a Benefit Concert for Pakistan Flood Relief, presented by the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music at First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo
• November 11, 2010, the Avanti Guitar Trio premieres Start's Passacaglia arrangement for 3 guitars on a Chicago Composers' Consortium concert at the Music Institute of Chicago
• November 15, Start performs three of her solo cello works as part of the program for the Chicago Musicians Club of Women
• January 24, 2011, Start joins the CUBE Ensemble for a live broadcast performance on WFMT-FM Chicago
• February 11, 2011, dal niente premieres Start’s Options on a Chicago Composers’ Consortium concert
• February 28- March 4, 2011, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra performs Start’s Echoes as part of its Kids Concerts program, Chenery Auditorium, Kalamazoo, MI
• March 14, 2011, Start performs on cello, electric cello, and viola da gamba, providing a program in contrasts for the Ladies Library Association, Kalamazoo, MI
• May 20, 2011, Carlo Aonzo performs Start's Pale Cliffs with Katsumi Nagaoka in Arenzano, Italy
• July 27, 2011, Carlo Aonzo performs Start's Pale Cliffs with Fabrizio Giudice on OperaEstate Festival Veneto 2011 in Bassano del Grappa, Italy
• October 29, 2011, Start appears with the Chicago Composers’ Consortium, Curtiss Hall, Fine Arts Building, Chicago
• November 8, 2011, Start appears on Art Break at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
• November 10, 2011, Start performs with MusicAEterna on opening night concert of the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music www.mfsm.us
• November 17, 2011, Start's new works for viols are premiered on a concert presented in collaboration between the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music and WMU Collegium Musicum
• January 17, 2012, 2 pm, Start presents her “Cello as Muse” program at the Kiva at Friendship Village, Kalamazoo.
• February 14, 2012, Start presents an all-school convocation for Northern Illinois University music school on entrepreneurialship in music
• April 3, 2012, noon, Start appears with WMU Collegium Musicum for Artbreak at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
• April 9, 2012, 8 pm, Start performs solo works by Robert Fleisher and herself at Northern Illinois University
• April 29, 2012, Start premieres her “Influences” with Shawna Lake, Laura Ross, and Shirley Trissell at First Congregational Church in Crystal Lake, IL
• May 7, 2012, 7:30 pm, Start performs her 3 Etudes for Electric Cello and Processing at a Chicago Cello Society program; Poco Frenetica, from her “Air Swiftly Flies” is also performed, Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston
• May 24, 2012: Start performs 6 new works by Chicago Composers’ Consortium members, including her own “Called Hers”, in a collaborative concert with CUBE Ensemble, North Shore Baptist Church, Chicago
• May 26, 2012: Start composes music cues and performs for All Ears Radio Theatre, Kalamazoo, MI
• June 2, 2012: Start performs solo cello at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts annual Art Fair
• July 8, 2012: Performance of Start’s “Influences” at the International Double Reed Society Conference, Miami University, Ohio
• September 23, 2012: Start premieres “Rising” with Phillip Chen on memorial service for W.C.Chen, Kalamazoo College
• September 28-29, 2012: Carlo Aonzo and Rene Izquierdo perform Start's “Pale Cliffs” in Milwaukee and Madison, WI
• October 13, 2012: Start performs “Rising” with Phillip Chen on annual fund-raising dinner for Michigan Festival of Sacred Music
• November 8, 2012: Start performs with CUBE
• December 24, 2012: Start premieres “Midwinter Carol” at Holy Family Chapel, Nazareth, MI
• February 13, 2013: Start performs her “Three Etudes for Electric Cello and Processing” at the national conference of Society of Composers, Inc.
• June 26, 2013: Due East premieres Start's “Moving Toward Evening” at Chicago Composers' Consortium concert
• July 13, 2013: Start premieres “Assisi Musings” with flutist Andrea Ceccemori at Chiesa di Santo Stefano, Perugia, Italy, as part of the Assisi Sacred Music Festival. The remainder of the program is solo cello music by Start and others.
• August 28, 2013: Start premieres “Assisi Impressions” with flutist Mary Stolper at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, MI as a preview concert for the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music. The remainder of the program includes the U.S. premiere of “Assisi Musings” and solo cello music by Start and others.
• October 19, 2013: Start's “to remember...to believe” is premiered by Accessible Contemporary Music at the Elks Veterans Memorial, Chicago, as part of the Chicago Architectural Society's weekend Open House Chicago event.
• November 15, 2013, Ukrainian Institute, Chicago: Release party for ten x ten project, where Start is one of 10 composers paired with 10 print-makers, creating a book with companion vinyl recording; presented by homeroomchicago.org, Spudnik Press, and Accessible Contemporary Music.
• March 20, 2014, Illinois State University: Due East performs Start's "Moving Toward Evening"
• March 28, 2014, Western Michigan University: Start and Ben Aldrich perform Start's "Three Pieces for Theremin and Electric Cello" as part of Society of Composers, Inc. Region V conference
• Date TBD, 2014, San Francisco: Awesöme Orchestra performs Start's "Early Reflections" and "Echoes" with Rohan Krishnamurthy

As Orchestral Cellist

• With the Elgin (IL) Symphony

• With the Kalamazoo (MI) Symphony
  

• With the Chicago Philharmonic
  

• With Early Music Michigan (formerly Michigan Bach Collegium)