Myra Joy, biography
Myra Joy has been exploring cellistic possibilities 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 playing New Traditional Music with Babes in the Woods and the Elameno Quintet. Her album of new pieces for cello; Myrajoy, violoncello, is now available.
Myra also performs regularly with singers including The Black Brothers and Hans York, and has collaborated with Kitka, Melanie O’Reilly and Aisling.
Past credits include the Walter Thompson Sound Painting Orchestra in New York, Djerdan folk ensemble, MERCH, 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.
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myra performs with MERCH at the Great American Music Hall