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Elizabeth Skola Davis

Music / Sound, Performance

Cellist, composer, music teacher – currently Principal Cellist and Composer in Residence for the Trinity Chamber Orchestra in Bethesda, Maryland.

About the Artist

Elizabeth Davis is a talented musician with a diverse background in music performance, theory, and composition. She began studying music at a young age, starting with voice and later learning piano, organ, and cello. She received her Bachelor of Music in cello performance from the University of Evansville in Indiana and later pursued a master's degree in music at Louisiana State University, where she switched her focus to music theory and composition. While at LSU, Davis won several awards, including third prize in the 1989 ASCAP Victor Herbert Young Composers competition in the Voice with Orchestra category for her work "Oriana's Lament." In 1991, her "Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano" received an honorable mention in the ASCAP Victor Herbert Young Composers competition's Small Ensemble category and was featured at the Second Festival of Women Composers in Pennsylvania. In addition to her composition work, Davis served as a section cellist for the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra in Indiana and the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra in Louisiana for seventeen years, then principal cellist for various community orchestras after multiple cross-country moves with her family. Currently, she is the principal cellist and composer in residence for the Trinity Chamber Orchestra in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Featured Work

Videos

  • Boccherini Musica Notturna Madrid 1

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    La Musica Notturna Delle Strade di Madrid
    by Luigi Boccherini
    arr. Wendy Shih
    Movement III. Minuetto (Tanz der Blinden), Allegretto
    As featured in Master and Commander (where the actors learned to play violin and cello so they could convincingly do the closing scene).

    Part 1 alone, then Part 2 alone at 1:11, then finally both together at 2:23.
    Medium: YouTube
    Year: 2020
    Details: dur. 3:33

Music/Audio

  • In Memory of Anyone Unknown to Me

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    In Memory sets the poem "In Memory of Anyone Unknown to Me" by the English poet Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) for choir with piano. It speaks of grieving for all those who have died whether known to the speaker or not. Too often these days we hear of senseless deaths in the news.This title is to honor the dignity of every human life and dedicated to each person who has passed on, whatever the reason.
    Medium: Soundcloud
    Year: 2015
    Details: performed by New York Virtuoso Singers