Album Notes

Myra Joy has been playing and performing on the cello since she was six years old. She has a B.M. in cello performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she studied with Jean-Michel Fonteneau. She has a background in varied performance genres. (She once spent four months studying experimental theatre and dance through the Trinity/LaMama program in New York.)
Since her graduation, she has continued her explorations of cellistic possibilities playing New Traditional Music with Babes in the Woods and the New (naming-in-process) Quintet. Her album of new pieces for cello; Myrajoy, violoncello, will be available in September, 2007.
Myra also performs with The Black Brothers, Melanie O’Reilly and Aisling, MERCH, and singer-songwriters including David Serotkin, David Wagner, and is working on a new collaboration with Hans York.
Past credits include the Walter Thompson Sound Painting Orchestra in New York, Djerdan folk ensemble, and the pickPocket Ensemble as well as chamber ensembles and the orchestra at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Myra currently teaches private cello lessons and runs the cello class for Starr King After-School Strings, a program put on by the YMCA and San Francisco Conservatory of music. She also is available for recordings, weddings, and events (as allowed by her busy schedule.)
She has participated in masterclasses and festivals with cellists such as Stephen Geber, Richard Aaron, Nathaniel Rosen, and Peter Reijto, and studied privately with Debbie Tandoc, Peter Gelfand, Page Smith, Andor Toth, and Jean-Michel Fonteneau.