SHELAGH ABATE, a newcomer to Baltimore, has long been one of New York’s most sought-after musicians. Known for her simultaneously warm and assertive sound, versatility and musical intuition, she has earned her place in the lexicon of NYC’s busiest performers. Shelagh is equally as seasoned as an educator, mentor and clinician. She is Associate Professor of Brass Studies and Liberal Arts at the Berklee College of Music, and has served as faculty at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute for many years.

Shelagh has opened more than one dozen Broadway productions from Mary Poppins and Frozen, to Music Man. She has performed regularly with The MET Opera Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival, American Ballet Theater, American Symphony Orchestra, and has been principal horn of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra under the artistic direction of Jaime Laredo since 1999. Through the course of her varied career she has worked with some of the great musicians of our time: Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Andre Previn, Gunther Schuller, Robert Spano, John Williams, Marin Alsop, and Jaime Laredo. Shelagh has established fluency in the commercial realm as well as the classical, having performed as part of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, the Tony Awards Studio Orchestra on live television, numerous commercials, film score soundtracks, video games and has recorded with artists such as Hugh Jackman, Sting, The Who, Tony Bennett, Rufus Wainwright, Lady Gaga, Barry Manilow, Joni Mitchell, and Phish’s Trey Anastasio. Chamber music has been at the very core of Shelagh’s success as a musician. A winner of the Coleman Competition (2000), and a founding member of the award-winning Triton Brass. She is a Stephens Custom Horns artist, regularly performing on one of the very first horns handcrafted by Stephen Shires.

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