Rachel Mangold is a collaborative and experimental double bassist living in Brooklyn, New York. With a practice rooted in inquiry and a commitment to cultural impression, she is weaving the threads of performance and participatory work into a holistic practice.
As a performer, she plays with a variety of unique organizations in New York such as the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Apartment Sessions, Groupmuse, piano+ at Arete, and frequent loft concerts as both a solo act and in an eclectic duo with violinist, Evelyn Petcher. Her participatory practice primarily involves facilitating collective composition projects with a wide variety of participants of all ages, economic backgrounds, and cultures. She founded and co-led workshops with Her Dynamic in London, U.K., whose performances at Barbican Creative Learning’s Dialogue Festival were very well received and noted as a revolutionary style of workshop leading. She collaborates regularly with Creative Connections leading projects across the US, and is a Teaching Artist with both the New York Philharmonic’s “Very Young Composers” program and the Little Orchestra Society.