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Artist Experience As an artist, I have experience at the highest levels presenting and <br />performing music in a "historically informed style" with the highest caliber <br />collaborators. I am excited to bring these types of collaborations to Chapel <br />Hill and Orange County in particular, where there is a clear appetite and <br />demand for this style of classical music performance. <br />My performances have been called "excellent" and "evocative" by the New <br />York Times, and "full of rapturous poetry" by the American Record Guide. <br />As a core member of the New York-based ensemble The Sebastians <br />(called "top-notch" by the New Yorker), I have a wealth of experience in <br />professional HIP over the past decade plus. I have also gained great <br />experience working with artists of international renown, serving as guest <br />principal second violin of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under Hungarian <br />violinist and conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy. <br />In terms of bringing expertise back to our area from abroad, some <br />highlights include a special project called "Transforming 19th-Century HIP) <br />that I was invited to take part in at Oxford University in the UK in the <br />summers of 2018 and 2019 which resulted in several performances and a <br />recording of 19th-century music on gut strings (the very same musical focal <br />point as "Gut Instinct"). (I am one of the 22 international musicians in this <br />20-minute documentary summarizing the project which can be viewed here: <br />https://c19hip.web.ox.ac.uk/accordes-documentary). <br />I am also a regular collaborator out of town with all of the visiting guest <br />artists on this series, whether in New York or elsewhere across the US. <br />Several of the guest artists have visited both UNC and MYCO in the past <br />to great success, resulting in enhanced student learning and performance <br />experiences. I'm really excited to bring all of these incredible guests to <br />North Carolina, for all of them to work with locally based yet internationally <br />experienced pianist Mimi Solomon, and for them to discover how culturally <br />rich and vibrant our community is here in Orange County! <br />Mimi Solomon, who teaches a course each spring at UNC focused on the <br />Pleyel Piano, is also excited to share the Pleyel and the Graf with local <br />students as well as UNC students and the greater public. Each year, her <br />student-centered, student-produced concert which features the Pleyel and <br />student collaborations is consistently one of the best attended programs of <br />its kind across the area. This collaboration with Gut Instinct will take the <br />process even further, showcasing what the instruments such as the Pleyel <br />can do when collaborating with professionals of a similar background as <br />Mimi Solomon. <br />How do you plan to <br />market your project? <br />The Gut Instinct concerts will be listed through the websites and mailing <br />lists of UNC Chapel Hill Newman Series, the North Carolina HIP Festival, <br />and on CVNC and Chapelboro W CHL. I will provide materials to be used in <br />articles by the Daily Tarheel and Indy W eek. <br />Additionally, I am a visual artist as well as a musical artist, and I have <br />already created materials which I plan to use via social media and my own <br />artist website to market Gut Instinct. <br />Docusign Envelope ID: D5BDC3D7-8023-4F0D-854E-21C6FC53C5A0