Pianist Ashlee Mack has given recitals in Germany, Italy, and across the United States. Specializing in contemporary music, she has performed solo and chamber music with organizations such as the Society for Chromatic Art, Vox Novus, New Music Forum, Iowa Composers Forum, New Music Festival at Western Illinois University, Bowling Green New Music Festival, Aspen Composers Conference at the Aspen Institute, PASIC, and SCI. Mack is co-founder of the Khasma Piano Duo, and their albums Switchback and Time Seems To Pass are available on CD Baby, Amazon, and iTunes. Other recordings include works by Robert Morris and Christian Carey, both featured on the Milton Babbitt: a composers' memorial CD set published by Perspectives of New Music/Open Space, and James Romig’s Transparencies on the Mosaic: Society of Composers album. An avid hiker and nature enthusiast, she has been an artist-in-residence at Wupatki National Monument, Everglades National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, and Centrum in Fort Worden State Park, WA. In collaboration with composer and husband, James Romig, Mack presented the world premiere of his 60-minute solo piano piece, Still, at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver in 2017, and New World Records released the recording in March 2018. She will also premiere Romig's new work for piano and orchestra, commissioned by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, in 2019. Mack is currently Director of Piano Studies at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
9/23/18 | 3PM — Still by James Romig at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
9/28/18 | 5PM — Still by James Romig at St. Ambrose University
10/4/18 | 7:30PM — Still (excerpts) by James Romig and Jonathan Wilson's A Bittersweet Moment at Porter House Museum
10/6/18 | 5PM — Still (excerpts) by James Romig at Walker Estate at Cedar Rock
10/7/18 | 3PM — Still (excerpts) by James Romig and Jonathan Wilson's A Bittersweet Moment at Montauk Historic Site
10/11/18 | 7:30PM — Still by James Romig at Denver University
11/1/18 | 6:30PM — Still by James Romig at Figge Art Musem
1/24/19 | 3:30PM — Still by James Romig at Cincinnati Conservatory
1/30/19 | 7:30PM — Charles Wuorinen's Duo Sonata and works by Christian Carey, Bruce Quaglia, and James Romig with flutist John McMurtery at Western Illinois University
2/17/19 | 3:00PM — Berio Sequenza IV at Knox College
3/3/19 | 7:30PM — Berio Sequenza IV at New Music Festival, Western Illinois University
3/30/19 | 7:30PM — Charles Wuorinen's Duo Sonata and works by Christian Carey, Bruce Quaglia, and James Romig with flutist John McMurtery at University of Minnesota
4/6/19 | 7:30PM — Khasma plays the Brahms Requiem with The Saint Vincent Camerata at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Mt. Lebanon PA
4/7/19 | 2:30PM — Khasma plays the Brahms Requiem with The Saint Vincent Camerata at Saint Vincent Basilica, Latrobe PA
4/11/19 | 8PM — Still by James Romig at Lawrence University
RECORDINGS
LONG BIO (229 words)
SHORT BIO (159 words)
HIGH-QUALITY COLOR PHOTO
HIGH-QUALITY BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTO
UPCOMING EVENTS
9/23/18 | 3PM — Still by James Romig at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
9/28/18 | 5PM — Still by James Romig at St. Ambrose University
10/4/18 | 7:30PM — Still (excerpts) by James Romig and Jonathan Wilson's A Bittersweet Moment at Porter House Museum
10/6/18 | 5PM — Still (excerpts) by James Romig at Walker Estate at Cedar Rock
10/7/18 | 3PM — Still (excerpts) by James Romig and Jonathan Wilson's A Bittersweet Moment at Montauk Historic Site
10/11/18 | 7:30PM — Still by James Romig at Denver University
11/1/18 | 6:30PM — Still by James Romig at Figge Art Musem
1/24/19 | 3:30PM — Still by James Romig at Cincinnati Conservatory
1/30/19 | 7:30PM — Charles Wuorinen's Duo Sonata and works by Christian Carey, Bruce Quaglia, and James Romig with flutist John McMurtery at Western Illinois University
2/17/19 | 3:00PM — Berio Sequenza IV at Knox College
3/3/19 | 7:30PM — Berio Sequenza IV at New Music Festival, Western Illinois University
3/30/19 | 7:30PM — Charles Wuorinen's Duo Sonata and works by Christian Carey, Bruce Quaglia, and James Romig with flutist John McMurtery at University of Minnesota
4/6/19 | 7:30PM — Khasma plays the Brahms Requiem with The Saint Vincent Camerata at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Mt. Lebanon PA
4/7/19 | 2:30PM — Khasma plays the Brahms Requiem with The Saint Vincent Camerata at Saint Vincent Basilica, Latrobe PA
4/11/19 | 8PM — Still by James Romig at Lawrence University
RECORDINGS
REVIEWS
"Pianist Ashlee Mack gives the music an eloquent, gently electric charge."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"This pianist finds novel ways of wringing out color from the dense chords and intriguing harmony.....nicely programmed and wonderfully played."
—New Music Connoisseur
"Mack....provides a sterling interpretation. [She] voices the harmony skillfully, allowing the piece-long progression to be presented with abundant clarity."
—Sequenza 21
"...challenging music, impeccably prepared.....strong and confident performance."
—Splendid E-zine
"Ashlee Mack's performance displayed impeccable voicing and perfect control of the often highly exposed and rarefied musical material."
—Iowa Composers Forum
"...confidently and expertly performed....totally captivating and always interesting from beginning to end."
—Society of Composers, Inc.