Angela Pickett

Angela Pickett has performed as a violist, violinist, and fiddler throughout North America and Europe. A member of the Princeton Symphony, Angela has also performed with Wet Ink Music, Ne(x)tworks, Continuum, and recently premiered a new version of Helmut Lachenmann’s Mouvement with the Argento Chamber Ensemble. In 2006, Angela performed Ann Southam’s Re-Tuning for viola and tape at the 34th International Viola Congress.  A subsequent performance of Re-Tuning at the 2006 International Sound Symposium was recorded for national radio broadcast.

As a fiddler she has performed with Irish tenor John McDermott, the Chieftains, and on numerous recordings of Irish/Newfoundland traditional music.

A doctoral candidate in viola performance at the Manhattan School of Music, Angela completed a Masters degree from the Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music in her hometown of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.

Angela has attended Tanglewood Music Centre, Aldeburgh Festival, Banff Centre for the Arts, Centre d’Arts Orford, and has twice been a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Grant for Classical Musicians. Angela’s principal teachers include Michael Tree, Samuel Rhodes, Karen Tuttle and Karen Dreyfus.