Violist Consuelo Sherba has been performing at Monadnock Music since 1991. She is Artistic Director of Aurea, an ensemble that explores the interface of music and the spoken word. Major performances with Aurea have taken place at the Chicago Humanities Festival, The New York University Humanities Festival, the Firstworks Providence Festival, as well as tour concerts around New England and at home in Rhode Island. Consuelo serves as principal violist of the Simon Sinfonietta on Cape Cod, and performs with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Buzzard’s Bay Music Festival, and Music at the Meeting House in Orleans, MA. She teaches and performs at Brown University, and also teaches for the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School.