Elise Blake performs as a solo and chamber musician throughout the Washington DC region. Her orchestral work is with the Baltimore, Richmond, and Virginia Symphonies, the Cathedral Choral Society, the Washington National Opera, and other ensembles.
Elise is committed to new music performance, and for nine years served as a member of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, California. She continues her contemporary music projects by collaborating with composer Sean Shepherd in January 2024. She is also a founding member of Femina Camera Trio, a violin-horn-piano trio that commissions and advocates works written by living composers such as Sally Beamish, Nancy Van de Vate, Elizabeth Raum, Eva Noer Kondrup and Adriana Figueroa.
