User:Knifegames/sandbox/Mariel Roberts

Mariel Roberts is a Brooklyn-based cellist, composer, and improviser of contemporary classical and experimental music.

Known for both technical virtuosity and avant-garde innovation, Roberts has received wide acclaim for her solo albums and is a co-director of Wet Ink Ensemble. She is a former founding member of Mivos Quartet and has performed with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Bang on a Can All Stars, and Ensemble Signal.

Education and Career
Originally from Denver, Colorado, Roberts attended public arts magnet school Denver School of the Arts before enrolling at Eastman School of Music at The University of Rochester. Roberts received her Master of Music (M.M.) at Manhattan School of Music, where she was a member of student ensemble Tactus and Mivos Quartet; she was also awarded the Van Lier Fellowship that led to her solo debut.

Roberts' first solo album, Nonextraneous Sounds (2012), comprises works by Andy Akiho, Sean Friar, Alex Mincek, Daniel Wohl, and Tristan Perich. Her second solo album, Cartography (2017), features compositions by David Brynjar Franzson, Eric Wubbels, Cenk Ergün, and George E. Lewis. (Roberts has also performed Lewis's compositions extensively live, including for WQXR and in a 2020 "virtual" performance filmed at Columbia University's Miller Theatre. ) Cartography was included among the year's best albums in both Bandcamp Daily and the Chicago Reader. Roberts' third solo release, Armament (2021), is an original collection of improvised works for cello and electronics.

In February of 2020, Roberts traveled along the Mexico–United States border wall with Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard; she has used the resulting field recordings in performances and compositions.

Other artists with whom Roberts has collaborated or recorded include Tim Hecker, M Lamar, Ambrose Akinmusire, Ingrid Laubrock, Nate Wooley, Patrick Higgins, Jen Shyu, Sam Pluta, Miranda Cuckson, and Zola Jesus.

As performer

 * Flobots, Fight with Tools (Universal Republic, 2007)
 * Sarah Kirkland Snider, Penelope (NewAm, 2010)
 * Andy Akiho, No One to Know One (Innova, 2011)
 * Andy Kozar, On The End... (Analog Arts, 2012)
 * Maria Neckam, Unison (Sunnyside, 2012)
 * Zola Jesus, Versions (Sacred Bones, 2013)
 * Patrick Higgins / Mivos Quartet, String Quartet No. 2; Glacia (Ex Cathedra / Words+Dreams, 2013)
 * John Escreet, Sabotage & Celebration (Whirlwind, 2013)
 * Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Diaries (2013)
 * Andrew McKenna Lee, The Knells (NewAm, 2013)
 * Jeff Grace & Phil Mossman, We Are What We Are [Music from the Motion Picture] (Milan, 2013)
 * John Zorn, Fragmentations, Prayers and Interjections (Tzadik, 2014)
 * The Cellar and Point, Ambit (Cuneiform, 2014)
 * Half Waif, Kotekan (2014)
 * Allegra Levy, Lonely City (SteepleChase, 2014)
 * Robert Honstein, RE: You (New Focus, 2014)
 * Elliot Goldenthal, String Quartet No. 1 (Zarathustra, 2014)
 * Peliroja, Injusticia (Chulo, 2014)
 * Christian Finger, Ananda (Strikezone, 2014)
 * Björk, Vulnicura Live (Rough Trade / One Little Indian, 2015)
 * Kishi Bashi, String Quartet Live! (Joyful Noise, 2015)
 * Birthmark, How You Look When You're Falling Down (Polyvinyl, 2015)
 * Reiko Füting, names, erased (New Focus, 2015)
 * Patrick Higgins, Social Death Mixtape (NNA, 2015)
 * Numinous, Changing Same (NewAm, 2015)
 * Jonatha Brooke, Midnight. Hallelujah. (Bad Dog / PRA, 2016)
 * Daniel Wohl, Holographic (NewAm, 2016)
 * Bright Sheng & the Hong Kong Philharmonic, The Intimacy of Creativity (Naxos, 2016)
 * Dan Blake with Mivos Quartet, The Dust Moves (Infrequent Seams, 2016)
 * Peter Eldridge, Disappearing Day (Sunnyside, 2016)
 * M Lamar, Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche (NEGROGOTHIC, 2017)
 * Alex Mincek, Torrent (Sound American, 2017)
 * Eric Wubbels, being-time (Carrier, 2017)
 * Sam Pluta, Broken Symmetries (Carrier, 2017)
 * Jen Shyu, Song of Silver Geese (Pi, 2017)
 * Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Jardín (Stones Throw, 2017)
 * Scott Wollschleger, Soft Aberration (New Focus 2017)
 * Tim Hecker, Konoyo (Kranky, 2018)
 * Ambrose Akinmusire, Origami Harvest (Blue Note, 2018)
 * Colin Self, Siblings (RVNG Intl., 2018)
 * Charlie Looker, Simple Answers (Last Things, 2018)
 * Eli Keszler, Stadium (Shelter Press, 2018)
 * Wet Ink Ensemble, Wet Ink: 20 (Carrier, 2018)
 * John Liberatore, Line Drawings (Albany, 2018)
 * Jeff Snyder, Concerning the Nature of Things (Carrier, 2018)
 * Mario Diaz de Leon, Cycle and Reveal (Denovali, 2019)
 * Daniel Wohl, État (NewAm / Nonesuch, 2019)
 * Jon Irabagon, Invisible Horizon (Irabbagast, 2019)
 * Lee Konitz, Old Songs New (Sunnyside, 2019)
 * Patrick Higgins, TOCSIN (Telegraph Harp, 2020)
 * Wet Ink, Glossolalia / Lines on Black (Carrier, 2020)
 * Ash Fure, Something To Hunt (Sound American, 2020)
 * David Lang, The Loser (Cantaloupe, 2020)
 * Various Artists, Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex (BMG, 2020)
 * Randy Gibson, Distant Pillars, Private Pillars (Galtta, 2020)
 * Ian Power, Diligence (Wandelweiser, 2020)
 * Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi, 2021)
 * Caroline Davis, Portals, Vol. 1 (Sunnyside, 2021)
 * Loadbang, Plays Well With (New Focus, 2021)
 * Gabriel Zucker, Leftover Beats from the Edges of Time (ESP-Disk, 2021)
 * Christopher Bailey, Rain Infinity (New Focus, 2021)
 * Kenneth Kirschner & Joseph Branciforte, From the Machine: Vol. 1 (greyfade, 2021)
 * Nate Wooley, Mutual Aid Music (Pleasure of the Text, 2021)
 * Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant, Séances (Pyroclastic, 2022)
 * Eric Wubbels, If and Only If (Carrier, 2023)
 * Henry Threadgill Ensemble, The Other One (Pi, 2023)
 * Jessica Pavone, Clamor (Out Of Your Head, 2023)
 * Nate Wooley, Four Experiments (Pleasure of the Text, 2023)
 * Wet Ink, Missing Scenes (Carrier, 2023)