Ralph Ashmead

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Clients

This is just a small, representative sample of clients. If you would like a list of clients in your area, please inquire.

Orchestras

Academy of Ancient Music
Aston Magna
Banchetto Musicale
Boston Early Music Festival
Boston Symphony
The Classical Band
Concert Royal
Concertgebouw Soloists
English Concert
Freiberg Baroque Orchestra
German Sympony Orchestra
Handel and Hayden Society
Il Gardino Armonico
John Jorgenson Quartet
The Saito Kinen Orchestra
The Kings Noise
London Classical Players
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
New York Philharmonic
New Japan Philharmonic
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Philharmonia Baroque
San Francisco Symphony
Smithsonian Chamber Players
St. Louis Symphony
Tafelmusick
Turtle Island

Violinists-Violists

Stefano Barneschi
Marco Bianchi
Elizabeth Blumenstock
Francesco Colletti
Elena Confortini
Olivier Foures
Elin Gabrielsson
Pamela Goldsmith
Thomas Hengelbrock
Christopher Hirons
Eric Hobarth
John Holloway
Benjamin Hudson
Nobuko Imai
Barbara Krakauer
Maria Krestinskaya
Raquel Massadas
Ingrid Matthews
Yoko Matsuda
Marilyn McDonald
Robert Mealy
Riccardo Minasi
Viktoria Mullova
Enrico Onofri
Daniel Phillips
David Plantier
Maren Reis
Andrey Reshetin
Stanley Ritchie
Nicholas Robinson
Jaap Schroder
Mark Steinberg
Yoko Takebe
Alessandro Tampieri
Elizabeth Wallfish
Miwako Watanabe

Cellists

Matthew Barley
Paolo Beschi
Christophe Coin
Judith Davidoff
Sol Gabetta
Bonnie Hampton
Elizibeth Lequin
Wouter Moller
Alice Robbins
Elena Russo
Giovanni Sollima
Ken-ichiro Yasuda

Gamba

Lucy Bardo
Matthew Barley
Martha Bishop
Laurie Castellano
Ensemble Hesperion XX
Fret Work
Wendy Gillespie
Carol Herman
Yukimi Kambe
Ariane Murette
New York Consort of Viols
Mary Springfels
The Baltimore Consort
Margriet Tindemanns

Double Bass

Akira Akahoshi
Giancarlo De Frenza
John Feeney
Ann Trout
Michael Willens

Ralph with Seiji Ozawa
In 1996, Ralph was honored to be invited by Seiji Ozawa to bring a selection of bows to Matsumoto, Japan for rehearsals by the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra for their upcoming concerts and recordings of Bach and Mozart.

Ralph Ashmead

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Praise for Ashmead Bows

As early music ideas are becoming more mainstream, I am using your bow more often in the orchestra with my modern violin. In particular, last week for… Read more
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Contact

Ralph Ashmead
P.O. Box 1411
Tuolumne, CA 95379
1.209.928.1272
ralph@ashmeadbows.com

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