Shelagh Abate

Shelagh Abate is one of New York’s most sought-after musicians, known for her warm and assertive sound, her versatility, and musical intuition. She has opened more than one dozen Broadway productions. Since arriving in New York in 2006, she has performed regularly with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Mostly Mozart Festival, The American Ballet Theater, The American Symphony Orchestra, and The Opera Orchestra of New York. She has been conducted by some of the great musicians of our time: Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Andre Previn, James Conlon, Gunther Schuller, John Williams, Marin Alsop, Jaime Laredo, Keith Lockhart, and Placido Domingo, to name a few. Shelagh has established fluency in the commercial realm as well as the classical, having performed as part of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Michel Legrand, among others. A winner of the Coleman Competition (2000), and a founding member of the award-winning Triton Brass (Fischoff, Lyon & Concert Artist Guild, 2005), Shelagh’s early musical influences include extensive study with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Richard Sebring, Toronto Symphony’s principal horn Neil Deland, and renowned pedagogue and performer Laura Klock. She has been a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and of The National Repertory Orchestra. Shelagh holds a B.A. from Boston College, an M.M. from The University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she was a recipient of the Howard W.Lebow Scholarship, and an Artist Diploma from The New England Conservatory of Music.