Emily Hope Price

Emily Hope Price is a regular performer at Puppet Playlist.

She is a cellist, composer, songwriter and singer based in New York City. She is in the band, Pearl and the Beard, based out of Brooklyn, and performs and tours both with PatB as well as solo all around the great US of A. In 2004, Emily received a master's degree in Cello Performance from Carnegie Mellon University studying with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Principle cellist Anne-Martindale Williams and PSO Associate cellist David Premo. Emily relocated to complete a one year post-graduate program in cello performance at SUNY Purchase with cellist Julia Lichten of The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Since graduating, she has performed and recorded for musicians and recording studios all over the east coast and abroad.

She and her cello have recorded for Jason Schwartzman's HBO series Bored to Death as well as recording with Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, and performing with Nadia Ali, Franz Nicolay of the Hold Steady, Wakey! Wakey!, and Ugly Purple Sweater among many others, as well as performing on several national TV and radio broadcasts including NPR's Soundcheck with John Schaefer performing with Pearl and the Beard and as a collaboration with renown harpist, Bridget Kibbey. She has performed in cities across the country and globe including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Miami, Chicago, Egypt, and throughout England, Germany and Romania and would love to someday live in Europe as the trees are so very nice there.

Pearl and the Beard released their first full-length album, God Bless Your Weary Soul, Amanda Richardson, spring of 2009. On June 1, 2009, she released her first solo studio-EP, The Crux and The Bluestocking. Both are available on iTunes. Emily loves gummy candies and her favorite cookie is a very plump and soft, homemade, iced sugar cookie.