The Sierra Madre Public Library hosts cellist Michelle Beauchesne live on Tuesday, Oct. 18, on its monthly Music and Mindfulness series, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Music and Mindfulness features soothing music “to help find your center,” says a Sierra Madre Lirary statement.
Michelle Beauchesne has been passionately playing her cello since the age of seven. Soloing with numerous orchestras, she has won multiple competitions at a very early age.
When she turned 17, Beauchesne received a full scholarship at the St. Louis Conservatory studying with John Sant’ Ambrogio and Leslie Parnas. She continued her studies at New England Conservatory and the HARID Conservatory, in Boca Raton, Florida, working with David Wells and Johanne Perron.
Beauchesne has worked with Leonard Bernstein, Yo Yo Ma and Isaac Stern at the Tanglewood Festival. Further study took her abroad to the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France affording the opportunity to work with Jean-Marie Gammard of the Paris Conservatory.
She has performed throughout the United States with the Florida Philharmonic, Palm Beach Opera Company, Berkeley Symphony and the American Tour as principal cellist with the Bolshoi Ballet.
Recording and touring went hand in hand with Beauchesne and such artists as Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, Natalie Cole, John Cage and the Grammy Award winning group MANA. It was with MANA where she made her MTV Unplugged debut pushing her beyond the classical beginnings and into new genres of music.
Attendance at the performance on Tuesday is free.
For more information, call (626) 355-7186 or visit www.cityofsierramadre.com/calendar.
The Sierra Madre Public Library is at 440 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. in Sierra Madre.
