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Tahirah Whittington
Saturday, 22 September 2007
Image Tahirah Whittington, originally from Houston, TX, has performed for audiences in the United States, Chile, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Bermuda, St. Kitts, and Japan. Solo engagements include a performance with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC, as a result of winning 1st prize at the 1999 Sphinx Competition. An avid chamber musician, she has toured as a member of Core Ensemble since 2001. The Core Ensemble is a trio of cello, piano, and percussion, which collaborates with actors to produce chamber music theater. The group was the 2000 recipient of the Edward McDermott Award for Excellence in the Arts awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tahirah is a founding member of The Young Eight, a touring string octet, and a resident member of the Ritz Chamber Players based in Jacksonville, FL. She has been fortunate to also collaborate with jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman and reggae artist Beres Hammond. She has played on the recordings of R&B artists, Alicia Keys, Angie Stone, and Joe, as well as gospel singer, Donnie McClurkin. Tahirah received her Master's Degree in Cello Performance from The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Joel Krosnick, and received her Bachelor's Degree at the New England Conservatory as a student of Laurence Lesser.

She is featured on Cedille Records’ Grammy-nominated recording of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s unaccompanied cello work Lamentations: a Black Folk Song Suite. In the linear notes for the 1973 recording performed by Anthony Elliott, Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma writes “The second and fourth movements from Lamentations are ‘Song Form’ with its haunting, descending sixths, and the vigorous ‘Perpetual Motion’.”

Tahirah will perform Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's Lamentations with the Dankmeyer Dance Company on September 27-29. She was privileged to have known Perkinson, affectionately referred to as “Perki,” and performed in his presence. Check out the review from the NY Times, which gave her glowing remarks for her performance at the Sphinx Laureates concert on Tuesday, September 25 at Carnegie Hall. 

DANKMEYER DANCE COMPANY
SIDELONG: NEW DANCES WITH LIVE MUSIC
NEW YORK SEASON: SEPTEMBER 27-29th, 2007
THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY @ 8:30pm

 Reservations: 212-674-8194
Admission: $20/$15 students or TDF/V

 Premiers of two new works by Dankmeyer with live music:
Melody Fader (piano) and Tahirah Whittington (cello).
Plus, Dankmeyer premiers a new solo by guest artist Andrea Haenggi, with Chris Woltmann (electric guitar).

DDC performs at Danspace Project as part of the DANCE:Access series.
Performance location: St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery,
131 East 10th Street at 2nd Ave .

Please contact DDC at  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 
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