Bay View Strings
About our players
Anna Rasmussen
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Anna Rasmussen received her Master’s in Violin Performance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Baylor University. Her violin teachers include Fabian Lopez, Eka Gogichashvili, and Julia Hardie.
Anna Rasmussen is an active chamber and orchestral musician and has been a Suzuki teacher since 2007. She has played with orchestras in Connecticut, North Carolina, and Texas, including Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Western Piedmont Symphony, Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, and Waco Symphony Orchestra. She has performed in Baroque ensembles in Madison, Beloit, and Milwaukee. She has recorded tracks for Paul Bogaev, and, as a member of the Spiritoso Quartet, she premiered a string quartet by Elise Grant in 2015. |
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As a Baroque cellist, Charlie Rasmussen is an active performer with the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and Sonata à Quattro. Mr. Rasmussen has appeared at the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series with the New York Continuo Collective. He has also performed as principal cellist with Madison Bach Musicians and soloed with Greensboro Early Music. He previously performed with the Vitali Ensemble and has performed in multiple early music recitals at the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music. Mr. Rasmussen’s first solo CD, 11 Capricci by Joseph Dall’Abaco, was released by Centaur Records in July 2018.
As a modern cellist, Mr. Rasmussen performed as cellist in the Spiritoso Quartet from 2015-2016 and the Immer String Quartet while he was a student at UNCG. As an orchestral musician, Mr. Rasmussen has served as a principal cellist of the Danville Symphony Orchestra (VA), University of North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, and the Luther College Philharmonia. He has also performed with the Fayetteville and Norwalk Symphonies. An advocate of new music, Mr. Rasmussen performed in the premiere of Alejandro Rutty’s Cantabile Hop at the 2012 North Carolina Music Teacher’s Association in Chapel Hill and premiered a string quartet by Elise Grant in 2015. He has recorded for Grammy Award-winning Broadway and film composer Paul Bogaev. |
Charlie Rasmussen
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