Ode to Joy

Norah Joy Clydesdale comes from a family of musicians originating in Glasgow, Scotland. 

Her  grandfather, Mr. Robert Clydesdale, was an orchestra conductor and cellist who immigrated to New York State in 1932. Norah studied with Colin Hampton of the Griller Quartet and Andor Toth, Jr. of the Hungarian Quartet at the San Francisco Conservatory. She then traveled south to study with Gabor Reijto and Bernardo Segall at USC before culminating her studies at Boston University. 

In Boston Ms. Clydesdale studied for seven years with world-renowned concert cellist and pedagogue George Neikrug. Ms. Clydesdale has participated in Masterclasses with Isaac Stern, Walter Trampler and Eugene Lehner of the Kolisch Quartet. She played professionally in the Boston area--principally as a chamber musician, performing the entire Beethoven Quartets Cycle with the Artaria Quartet before moving to Paris, France. In France she was an active educator, teaching　cello, violin, and the love of music to children and adults in Paris. Ms. Clydesdale also developed the string department at the Lycee Ombrosa in Lyon, France. Ms. Clydesdale rounded out her career in Europe music to young school children in Milan, Italy. Norah recently returned from Europe and is now an active performer and educator in Colorado. She has performed with the Grace String Quartet, as Assistant Principal Cello of the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, and was Principal Cello of the Pikes Peak Philharmonic for the last three years. Norah also performs with the Pueblo Symphony Orchestra, and is a founding member of the Colorado State University's Prometheus Piano Trio. Norah is on the Adjunct Faculty as Cello Instructor at CSU-Pueblo. She was the Music Director at St. John Neumann Catholic School in Pueblo with 120 violin-viola and cello students from 2015-2018.

Norah created The Clydesdale Music and Art Studio here in Pueblo in 2017 and is developing music and art for students in the southern Colorado region through private lessons and the Magical Musical ARTS Camps being held regularly in her Studio.