Cellist Ashima Scripp has performed with orchestras, ensembles and in recital in major concert halls around the world including New York's Carnegie Hall, Tokyo Opera City, Boston's Symphony Hall, Chicago's Symphony Center and Boston's Jordan Hall. Ms. Scripp has received top prizes and distinctions at many prestigious competitions and in recent years she has taken the First Prize in competitions held by the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, the Skokie Valley Symphony, the North Shore Musicians Club, the Eleanor Thaviu Foundation, and Northwestern University, among others. Ms. Scripp has also recently been featured on Los Angeles' KMozart, Boston's WGBH, Chicago’s WFMT and in the Pioneer Press.

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Scripp is a member of the critically acclaimed Walden Chamber Players based in Boston, MA. As a member of the group, she performs a variety of chamber music repertoire at some of the most distinguished series in the country. Walden Chamber Players is also ensemble-in-residence at the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science and Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. As a result of a grant from Chamber Music America they are also running a long-term chamber music institute this season in Nyack, NY.

Ms. Scripp also performs across the U.S. with pianist Natasha Mah. In past seasons the duo has appeared in recital performances at the Phillips Collection’s Sunday Concert Series, at the Faculty Performing Artist Recital Series at Longy School of Music and as part of the live recital series run by Chicago’s WFMT presented by the PianoForte Foundation. In the summer Ms. Scripp is also often a guest artist with the North Country Chamber Player as part of the White Mountain Music Festival in Franconia, NH.

Ms. Scripp holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Northwestern University and is on the cello and chamber music faculty of the Longy School of Music and Concord Academy in Massachusetts. She has recently released a recording with jazz pianist/composer Claire Ritter and a recording of the chamber music of Augusta Read Thomas with the Walden Chamber Players.