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▫️ #violinist ▫️ 📍 NYC ▫️
🏅Avery Fisher Career Grant
⚜️co director of @twelfthnightensemble
🎻 @pirastroofficial strings

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African talking drum + Michael Jackson? Ilumina exists to break boundaries!

Our amazing violinist Rachell Ellen Wong playing #MichaelJackson accompanied by genius Edmundo Carneiro during the 10th Ilumina Festival at the iconic Casa das Caldeiras.

What do you think about this collaboration?

#talkingdrum #violin #percussion #michaeljackson #ilumina #iluminafestival #musicadecamara #ilumina2025 #musicfestival #chambermusicfestival #rachellellenwong #edmundocarneiro #saopaulo taken in Casa das Caldeiras by @rachellviolin

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The hunt! 💥

*Twelfth Night does not condone the shooting of animals taken in Princeton, New Jersey by @rachellviolin

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@rachellviolin—the sole Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient in Baroque music—and harpsichordist @davidbelkovski brought a wide-ranging program of violin sonatas and Baroque gems by Biber, J. S. Bach, Leclair, Corelli, and more to our intimate Weill Recital Hall.

The duo, who are also artistic directors of @twelfthnightensemble, were joined by cellist @colemanplayscello. 📷: @jennifertaylorphotography taken in Carnegie Hall by @rachellviolin

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It’s always a blast to collaborate with superstar period ensemble Twelfth Night and their two dynamic leaders David Belkovski and Rachell Ellen Wong.

Our musical ideas take flight in a super charming program called “Birds of a Feather,” Symphonies and a Concerto of Haydn and Mozart. Tickets for sale for this incredible show coming, up Oct 24/25th in Hunter, NY and NYC! Do come out for this if you’re in the area! https://twelfthnightensemble.com/concerts

Sunday Oct 25th at 6 PM, at the Good-Shepherd Faith Presbyterian Church. Haydn’s “Chicken” Symphony and Mozart’s Fortepiano Concerto K. 453 (on a Walter copy Mozart piano!), Yi-heng Yang, soloist.
https://twelfthnightensemble.com/concerts taken in Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church / 선한목자장로교회 by @rachellviolin

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La maestra Rachell Ellen Wong, les invita a aplicar al festival. ¡La fecha límite es el 31 de octubre!

No pierdas la oportunidad de trabajar con ella y todos los increíbles maestros que nos acompañarán. 🎻🎹 by @rachellviolin

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Been one year of saying goodbye to my Shoozie, but now I have an oil painting to commemorate her. I miss her every day 🌈

Thank you to @rosangelaitice for creating such a special painting that I’ll cherish for the rest of my life and to my sis @bgirlmiwa for helping get it all the way from Brazil to NYC. ❤️

(Does anyone else know a bunny who has their own oil painting? 🐰🎨) by @rachellviolin

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❤️‍🔥 CPE’s legacy is immense… and insane!

It was such a luxury to play this with @rachellviolin and Orquestra Vigo 430!
Watch the full video at the Tolemias Platform!

#cello #violin #orchestra #bach #live by @rachellviolin

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¡La facultad para la VII edición del FIMG está increíble! 🎻🙌

Las inscripciones cierran el próximo 31 de Octubre, no se pierdan la oportunidad de trabajar en clases magistrales y música de cámara con los magníficos maestros que hemos reunido para ustedes.

Toda la información sobre cómo aplicar está disponible en:
www.fimg.mx by @rachellviolin

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Happy international rabbit day 🐰🐰 by @rachellviolin

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¡Atención violinistas! 🎻 Les presentamos a la Mtra. Rachell Ellen Wong, con quien podrán trabajar en clases magistrales y de música de cámara en nuestra VII edición. Para nosotros es un honor recibir a @rachellviolin en el FIMG. by @rachellviolin

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Back with new headshots and possibly lice 🍤 🤫🍉

Had a blast today making our Twelfth Night debut in Boston with the always [insert complimentary adjective here] @colemanplayscello

Thank you @gardnermuseum!❤️ taken in Boston, Massachusetts by @rachellviolin

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These past two days of knowing Stanley is gone have brought back so many memories of him. I am not the best writer, but I wanted to share some of my fondest memories of him.

I met Stanley my first week at IU, right after a rough orchestra rehearsal. A friend mentioned there was an option to switch to baroque orchestra, so I found his room and knocked. I told him to please let me in! He laughed, probably at how desperate I was, and handed me a baroque violin and an exercise by some guy named Geminiani, and told me to come back in a week. The next week, surprisingly, he called me a natural, and told me I was in. that was the beginning of the end for me 🙂

Every week I looked forward to my lesson with him. He was tough but hilarious, endlessly generous, and full of phrases like “PPD” (perfect pitch disorder), and some I’m still trying to grasp…my favorite being

“All music is in 1, except when it’s in 3, which is often in 2.”
And many more I’m still trying to learn!

When I got into the Leipzig Bach competition, he had me stay in Bloomington that summer and taught me all the repertoire himself. I rode my bike to his house nearly every day, and honestly stopped caring about the competition, I just loved the hours learning from him.

Four days before the IU Beethoven concerto competition, he told me he’d been one of the first to play it on period instruments and had written his own cadenza. I absolutely needed to hear it so he dug up an old cassette, and I learned it by ear that night in a friend’s car (only place that I could play a cassette!). I performed it in the competition 3 days later, and still perform his cadenza every time I play the concerto.

He kept supporting me long after IU. Last fall he and Elisabeth let me stay in his house while I taught for Mark Kaplan’s studio, and Elisabeth drove me to visit him so we could catch up and share stories again.

I’ll miss randomly texting him any musical question and always getting invaluable advice back. I’ll miss telling him milestones in my life and sharing performances with him over the years. I’ll really miss you, Stanley. Thank you for setting me on this path I’m on now, and for changing my life. 🤍 by @rachellviolin

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