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Biography
Dr. Ashley Sandor Sidon is Assistant Professor of Cello at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where she teaches cello, coaches chamber music and performs with the Drake Fine Arts Piano Trio. She is a former cello instructor, chamber music coach and lecturer in twentieth-century music at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (China). Ashley Sandor Sidon has been an invited soloist and clinician both nationally and internationally. She has performed and taught master classes at Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu, China, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore, the Chinese Conservatory of Music in Hong Kong and the Taipei String Festival. Dr. Sidon has served as a clinician at the Music Educator's National Conference (MENC), College Music Society Southeast Convention, and Indiana and Georgia Music Educators Conventions. Nationally, she has performed at college campuses such as the Crane School of Music, Miami University, the University of Tennessee, the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater and the University of Minnesota. As a member of the Emery Trio, she has performed and taught master classes in Atlanta, Cincinnati, at the governors honors programs for Georgia and Kentucky, and at colleges across the Midwestern and Southeastern US, as well as appearing on radio broadcasts of live concerts. She recently taught strings and conducted the orchestra at the Shanghai American School and taught applied cello at Dulwich College in Shanghai. Between teaching and performing commitments in Shanghai, she toured Southeast Asia presenting recitals and master classes at provincial cultural centers, music schools and other concert venues. Prior to her tenure in Asia, Dr. Sandor Sidon was an instructor of cello and director of chamber music at Earlham College in Indiana (USA), manager-member of the Emery Trio and a former associate member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra. She holds the degree, Doctorate of Musical Arts in Violoncello, from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where her principal teacher was internationally acclaimed cellist, Yehuda Hanani.  As a researcher and proponent of contemporary music, she has premiered compositions by composers Philip Koplow and Roger Vogel, and her research document titled "Lineage and Comparison of Versions of Igor Stravinskys Suite Italienne" was published by the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts (2004). Ashley Sandor Sidon has performed under artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Christopher Wilkins. She has won several concerto competitions, including First Prize in the Colorado College Festival Competition and Silver Medal in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition. Dr. Sandor Sidon has performed in master classes for Bernard Greenhouse, Desmond Hoebig, Michael Strauss, Richard Aaron, Sandra Rivers, Peter Ouindjin, James Tocco, and the Tokyo String Quartet. Dr. Sandor Sidon was an associate with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. During the summer, she is on the artist-faculty of the New England Music Camp in Maine.
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