TBJ160: Nicole Cash
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On This Episode of The Brass Junkies:
Growing up with Jen Montone
Deciding to take the Dallas Symphony audition even though she didn’t feel like she necessarily should - and then she won!
Her disappointment in not winning the St. Louis Symphony audition in spite of playing well
Her 7-year run with the San Francisco Symphony
Coming to terms with focal dystonia and how the symptoms developed very slowly
How she played an entire season injured
The emotions she still feels about her career ending so early
Being a mother
Her latest creative endeavor which is making insanely fancy cakes for friends and family
Bio:
Nicole Cash, a native of Annandale, Virginia, joined the San Francisco Symphony as Associate Principal Horn in 2009. Prior to that she held the position of 3rd Horn with the Dallas Symphony for eight seasons. She has served as co-principal horn with the kwa-Zulu Natal Philharmonic (South Africa) and has performed with the orchestras of Honolulu, San Antonio, Houston, and Saint Louis, as well as the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. Ms. Cash earned a MMus from Rice University, where she studied with William VerMeulen, and a BMus cum laude from Northwestern University under the instruction of Norman Schweikert and Gail Williams. As the winner of the Rice University Shepherd School and Music Academy of the West Concerto Competitions in 2000, she was a featured soloist with both orchestras, and made her solo debut with the Dallas Symphony in 2004. Ms. Cash is also an active chamber musician and teacher. In addition to numerous appearances on the Nasher Sculpture Center Chamber Music Series and the Fine Arts Chamber Players Series, she is on the faculty of the Summer Brass Institute and Festival at Menlo, and a former member of the Classic Brass Quintet and guest artist with Camerata Winds. In her free time, Ms. Cash enjoys skiing, snowboarding, contemporary literature, travel, and spending time with good friends over good food and drink.
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