featured collaborations
DAMSEL
Beth's band, Damsel (with vocalist/acoustic guitarist, Monica Mugan) released their second album New To You in October 2021. Damsel writes and performs original music for vocals, viola, acoustic guitar, ukulele, banjo and percussion.
SO PERCUSSION / STEVE REICH
Beth first sang the music of Steve Reich with the group “Ossia” (the first iteration of the new music ensemble, Alarm Will Sound) at the Eastman School of Music. She has been performing this instrumental/rhythmic style of singing with So Percussion for many years.
QQQ
She was a founding member of the quirky, “folk-prog” band, ‘QQQ’ (viola, hardanger fiddle, acoustic guitar and drums) whose debut album ‘Unpacking the Trailer’ (New Amsterdam Records 2009) was hailed “a bold statement of purpose disguised as an unpretentious lark” by Time Out New York.
CAROLINE SHAW
Beth has known Caroline Shaw for over 20 years as a fellow string player and friend. More recently, Beth has helped fill out Caroline's music in support of the songs she's written with Sō Percussion for their Let The Soil Album. She has a cameo in the video for her cover of ABBA's Lay All Your Love. Caroline has joined Beth for several performances of Jason Treuting's Go Placidly With Haste as well as Amid The Noise at Carnegie Hall in December 2021.
REGINA SPEKTOR
Beth has played with Regina Spektor since 2009 and occasionally arranges string music for her. Recently, Beth arranged the string music for her Broadway limited run “Regina Spektor on Broadway” as well as the string trio that accompanied her “Loveology” on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Here is a video from the Live In London show with Regina Spektor playing "Eet".
PEOPLE
Beth recently joined the PEOPLE Collective in 2018. After working for years with both Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National on various projects, she was invited to Berlin to be a part of the PEOPLE Festival there. Here is a recording of her singing with the Women's Choir there.
DRUMMING AT 50
Beth had honor of being a part of the Drumming At Fifty project with Nexus and Sō Percussion to celebrate 50 years of this monumental work by Steve Reich. She is featured on this informative website both singing in the four/ten media video of the full work as well as in a candid interview hosted by Josh Quillen about her many performances of Drumming alongside vocalist, Daisy Press.
JASON TREUTING
Jason is Beth's partner in life and in music. They have been working together in the same groups for years, but more recently as co-composers of a multi-generational opera. The Nightingale And The Tower was written with their long-time friend and colleague, Rebecca Comerford, and was premiered in May 2019 at the Libbey Bowl in Ojai, CA by the Ojai Youth Opera. Beth and Jason will be releasing an album of original music called "Go Placidly With Haste.”
janus
Beth was a founding member of the contemporary music ensemble, janus. Over the 12 years of their work together, she helped commission countless important works for the flute, viola and harp instrumentation.
SUSAN MARSHALL
During the early zoom/pandemic months, Beth and her partner, Jason Treuting approached MacArthur fellow and choreographer, Susan Marshall to create a dance through the screen. Combining Jason's music from Nine Numbers #2, Susan developed a piece that eventually escaped the confines of two dimensions and hit the stage. The piece, Nine Numbers #2 has been performed at Brooklyn Bound, Roulette Intermedium, the Lewis Center of the Arts, and Carleton College. A video of the piece was captured by Four/Ten Media.