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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
Accademia Bizantina
Aston Magna
Banchetto Musicale
Boston Early Music Festival
Boston Symphony
The Classical Band
Concert Royal
Concertgebouw Soloists
English Concert
Europa Galante
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
Fabio Biondi
Elizabeth Blumenstock
Elisa Citterio
Francesco Colletti
Elena Confortini
Elin Gabrielsson
Pamela Goldsmith
Thomas Hengelbrock
Christopher Hirons
Eric Hobarth
John Holloway
Benjamin Hudson
Nobuko Imai
Alana Jossefian
Maria Krestinskaya
Kati Kyme
Raquel Massadas
Ingrid Matthews
Yoko Matsuda
Marilyn McDonald
Robert Mealy
Riccardo Minasi
Viktoria Mullova
Enrico Onofri
Daniel Phillips
David Plantier
Andrey Reshetin
Stanley Ritchie
Nicholas Robinson
Jaap Schroder
Sayaka Shoji
Elicia Silverstein
Dmitry Smirnov
Mark Steinberg
Yoko Takebe
Alessandro Tampieri
Elizabeth Wallfish
Miwako Watanabe
Rachell Ellen Wong

Cellists

Paolo Beschi
Joanna Blendulf
Christophe Coin
Judith Davidoff
Sol Gabetta
Bonnie Hampton
Elizibeth Lequin
Wouter Moller
Maurizio Naddeo
Alice Robbins
Elena Russo
William Skeen
Giovanni Sollima
Natalie Timofeeva
Brent Wissick
Ken-ichiro Yasuda

Gamba

Teodoro Bau’
Martha Bishop
Amy Brodo
Laurie Castellano
Ensemble Hesperion XX
Fret Work
Wendy Gillespie
Patricia Halverson
Jane Hershey
Yukimi Kambe
Andre’ Lislevand
John Moran
David Morris
Ariane Murette
New York Consort of Viols
Mary Springfels
Lisa Terry
The Baltimore Consort
Margriet Tindemanns

Double Bass

Akira Akahoshi
Giancarlo De Frenza
John Feeney
Patricia Halverson
Jane Hershey
John Moran
David Morris
Lisa Terry
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

Ralph Ashmead

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 Beethoven #3 and this week for Beethoven #5! As conductors are taking Beethoven’s audacious tempo markings more literally, your bow allows me to
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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 Beethoven #3 and this week for Beethoven #5! As conductors are taking Beethoven’s audacious tempo markings more literally, your bow allows me to play the fleet tempi with ease. Also terrific for later Baroque work, Mozart Opera, and Oratorios. It has literally been a career saver.
Whenever I can, I encourage colleagues to try my bow, to show them how they can maximize their efforts while protecting their arm.

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Lorraine Glass-Harris

Contact

Ralph Ashmead
P.O. Box 1411
Tuolumne, CA 95379
1.209.928.1272
ashmead@frontiernet.net

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