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As we transition back to the stage,
LET THE MUSIC RESOUND!
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Rescheduled Concert
We have hit a milestone with this opportunity to reschedule the first concert that was cancelled over a year ago due to COVID-19, rescheduled from April 10, 2020. Rosanna Moore, harp sponsored in part by Denis Kingsley August 5, 2021 at 7:30 PM Rockwell Museum 111 Cedar St. in Corning Rhapsodie by Grandjany The Lark by Glinka Sonata in B Minor, K. 27 and Sonata in F Minor K. 466 by Scarlatti Keyboard Suite in D Minor by Handel Suite for Harp by Avner Dorman Time Spinner by Esther Swift Travel through time on a harp with music from 1700 through today. Principal harpist with the OSFL, Rosanna Moore presents this solo harp performance in preparation for the 21st Annual International Harp Competition in Israel. Tickets: $30 adult, $10 child Limited seating. Get your tickets early! |
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Biography
Often described as a quirky and engaging performer, who is fully at home on stage both as a harpist, and as a storyteller and actor, Rosanna Moore, has made it her aim to combine theatre and music wherever possible. She has recently had success in multiple international competitions such as being first harpist to be a finalist at the Gold Medal Competition at RNCM (the highest accolade offered for solo performance), won the Stan Baker award for jazz improvisation, was a semifinalist in the Dutch Harp Competition and placed third at both the Welsh International Jazz and Pop Harp Competition, Tierra47’s International Pedal Harp Competition and the Marcel Tournier Competition.
In addition to performing as a tenured member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Rosanna can often be seen with ensembles such as Ensemble Signal, Slee Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Symphor!a, Binghamton Philharmonic and Buffalo Philharmonic. She was invited to give the opening solo recital at the Sentmentat International Harp Festival, Spain in 2018. In 2021, she will appear for the fifth year as principal harp with the Lake George Music Festival, NY.
As an actress, she has worked as a narrator for orchestras and ensembles in addition to doing voice over work. In a combination of both art forms, she has worked with trombonist/actor John Kenny, was awarded honorable mention in the Eastman Lecture Recital Prize for her research and performance into the choreography used in R. Murray Schafer’s Crown of Ariadne and created a Vaudeville harp show entitled ‘Roll Up, Roll Up’, presenting theatrical harp works and storytelling, which won her a spot in the Dutch Harp Competition’s semi final in 2018 . Her research into the relationship between music and theatrical performance practices was published in Contemporary Music Review in 2020 and will be presented at the World Harp Congress in Cardiff, 2022. Rosanna also provides workshops to musicians on stage presence and etiquette and the use of acting techniques from theatre practitioners to further musical expression.
As a passionate advocate for new music, Rosanna pesters composers until they write for her! This has lead to two world premieres of concerti, the US premiere of David Horne’s Splintered Instruments and Amy Victoria Nam’s Somewhere to Elsewhere, a show entitled God Complex with her percussion and harp duo Sticks&Strings , an upcoming recording project with her flute, viola, harp trio, Trio Alexander, and new theatrical commissions with her Hats+Heels bassoon and harp duo. One upcoming project will be a new concerto for the Electric Delta Harp written by Grammy Award Winner DJ Sparr. Since 2017, she has served as a harpist consultant for the Future Blend Project, an innovative and collaborative composition competition. She also served in a number of roles on the executive board of OSSIA New Music collective, including as President in the lead up to the organization’s 20th anniversary season.
In addition to performing, Rosanna is the new Instructor of Harp/ Artist in Residence at the University of Oregon where she will teach students at the collegiate level as well as developing a community harp division and also is the Harp Instructor at Opus Ithaca. She has been invited to present masterclasses for the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK, the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble in Atlanta, GA and appeared as the adjudicator for the American Harp Society’s Auditions and Evaluations. Formerly she was the Professor of Harp at Nazareth College and the Harp Instructor at the Eastman Community Music School. In these roles, she works to bring the harp to as many students as possible and teaches students of all ages and abilities. She was recently elected as President of the Rochester Chapter of the American Harp Society. In addition to this, she is the
co-founder and host of the Soundweavers Podcast with Dr. Adam Paul Cordle and Dr. Blaire Koerner. Soundweavers is a chamber music podcast that explores the trials and tribulations of being a chamber musician or composer in the gig economy.
Rosanna recently completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree with the Performer’s Certificate, an Arts Leadership Certificate and a minor in theatre at the Eastman School of Music, supported by the Eileen Malone Scholarship. She previously studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham’s School of Music. Her wonderful mentors throughout the years have been Kathleen Bride and Eira Lynn Jones.
Often described as a quirky and engaging performer, who is fully at home on stage both as a harpist, and as a storyteller and actor, Rosanna Moore, has made it her aim to combine theatre and music wherever possible. She has recently had success in multiple international competitions such as being first harpist to be a finalist at the Gold Medal Competition at RNCM (the highest accolade offered for solo performance), won the Stan Baker award for jazz improvisation, was a semifinalist in the Dutch Harp Competition and placed third at both the Welsh International Jazz and Pop Harp Competition, Tierra47’s International Pedal Harp Competition and the Marcel Tournier Competition.
In addition to performing as a tenured member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Rosanna can often be seen with ensembles such as Ensemble Signal, Slee Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Symphor!a, Binghamton Philharmonic and Buffalo Philharmonic. She was invited to give the opening solo recital at the Sentmentat International Harp Festival, Spain in 2018. In 2021, she will appear for the fifth year as principal harp with the Lake George Music Festival, NY.
As an actress, she has worked as a narrator for orchestras and ensembles in addition to doing voice over work. In a combination of both art forms, she has worked with trombonist/actor John Kenny, was awarded honorable mention in the Eastman Lecture Recital Prize for her research and performance into the choreography used in R. Murray Schafer’s Crown of Ariadne and created a Vaudeville harp show entitled ‘Roll Up, Roll Up’, presenting theatrical harp works and storytelling, which won her a spot in the Dutch Harp Competition’s semi final in 2018 . Her research into the relationship between music and theatrical performance practices was published in Contemporary Music Review in 2020 and will be presented at the World Harp Congress in Cardiff, 2022. Rosanna also provides workshops to musicians on stage presence and etiquette and the use of acting techniques from theatre practitioners to further musical expression.
As a passionate advocate for new music, Rosanna pesters composers until they write for her! This has lead to two world premieres of concerti, the US premiere of David Horne’s Splintered Instruments and Amy Victoria Nam’s Somewhere to Elsewhere, a show entitled God Complex with her percussion and harp duo Sticks&Strings , an upcoming recording project with her flute, viola, harp trio, Trio Alexander, and new theatrical commissions with her Hats+Heels bassoon and harp duo. One upcoming project will be a new concerto for the Electric Delta Harp written by Grammy Award Winner DJ Sparr. Since 2017, she has served as a harpist consultant for the Future Blend Project, an innovative and collaborative composition competition. She also served in a number of roles on the executive board of OSSIA New Music collective, including as President in the lead up to the organization’s 20th anniversary season.
In addition to performing, Rosanna is the new Instructor of Harp/ Artist in Residence at the University of Oregon where she will teach students at the collegiate level as well as developing a community harp division and also is the Harp Instructor at Opus Ithaca. She has been invited to present masterclasses for the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK, the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble in Atlanta, GA and appeared as the adjudicator for the American Harp Society’s Auditions and Evaluations. Formerly she was the Professor of Harp at Nazareth College and the Harp Instructor at the Eastman Community Music School. In these roles, she works to bring the harp to as many students as possible and teaches students of all ages and abilities. She was recently elected as President of the Rochester Chapter of the American Harp Society. In addition to this, she is the
co-founder and host of the Soundweavers Podcast with Dr. Adam Paul Cordle and Dr. Blaire Koerner. Soundweavers is a chamber music podcast that explores the trials and tribulations of being a chamber musician or composer in the gig economy.
Rosanna recently completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree with the Performer’s Certificate, an Arts Leadership Certificate and a minor in theatre at the Eastman School of Music, supported by the Eileen Malone Scholarship. She previously studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham’s School of Music. Her wonderful mentors throughout the years have been Kathleen Bride and Eira Lynn Jones.
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Past Performances for the Archives
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Reopening Concert TRANSITION POINTS: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC FOR TWO VOYCES sponsored in part by Dick and Judy Sphon The English-Tobin Duo Ashley English Tobin, baroque viola John Paul Tobin, baroque viola & baroque violin June 10, 2021 at 7:30 PM The Park Church Elmira, NY $30 adult, $10 child |
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Renaissance Ayres, Fantasias, Chansons, Ricercare, Motets, and Bicinia; Transitional Period and Late-Classical Music — The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes presents the English-Tobin Duo on Historical Violins and Violas.
The theory that some of the most interesting art is produced during times of great transition is put to the test in this programme of music that straddles historical periods, genres, and musical styles. Secular mixes with sacred, and the lines between dance, vocal, and instrumental music are blurred with the shift from late-Renaissance to early-Baroque; The extreme compositional changes occurring during the Transitional Period (from Baroque to Classical) are exemplified in the work of a musician with a huge family legacy; and a late-Classical composer explores elements of Romanticism years before Beethoven and Schubert. Be transported as the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes presents the English-Tobin Duo on historical violins and violas in the intimacy and fine acoustics of the Park Church.
The theory that some of the most interesting art is produced during times of great transition is put to the test in this programme of music that straddles historical periods, genres, and musical styles. Secular mixes with sacred, and the lines between dance, vocal, and instrumental music are blurred with the shift from late-Renaissance to early-Baroque; The extreme compositional changes occurring during the Transitional Period (from Baroque to Classical) are exemplified in the work of a musician with a huge family legacy; and a late-Classical composer explores elements of Romanticism years before Beethoven and Schubert. Be transported as the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes presents the English-Tobin Duo on historical violins and violas in the intimacy and fine acoustics of the Park Church.
Ashley English Tobin and John Paul Tobin performing in the OSFL viola section
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The Park Church, Elmira NY
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Concert Repertoire
Middle/Late-Renaissance Ayres, Fantasias, Chansons, Ricercare, Motets, and Bicinia for 2 Instruments
Three Motets for two voices/instruments (performed without interruption)
ORLANDE DE LASSUS (ca.1530—1594)
I. “Beatus vir qui in sapientia morabitur”
II. “Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam”
III. “Oculus non vidit”
Two Bicinia from “Il primo libro della musica a due voci”
I. Bicinium No. 34 GIOVANNI PAOLO CIMA (1570—1622)
II. Bicinium No. 21 ORAZIO VECCHI (1550—1605)
Chanson: “Contentez vous”
PIERRE CERTON (ca.1510—1572)
Ricercar I from “Ricercate a due voci”
ANNIBALE ZUCCARO (flor. 1603—1609)
Transitional Period and Late-Classical Music for 2 Instruments
Duetto for Two Violas in G Major, F. 61
WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH (1710—1784)
I. Allegro
II. Lamento
III. Presto
Duo for Violin and Viola in D major, StWV 203, No. 1
JOHANN FRANZ XAVER STERKEL (1750—1817)
I. Andante
II. [without indication]
Middle/Late-Renaissance Ayres, Fantasias, Chansons, Ricercare, Motets, and Bicinia for 2 Instruments
Three Motets for two voices/instruments (performed without interruption)
ORLANDE DE LASSUS (ca.1530—1594)
I. “Beatus vir qui in sapientia morabitur”
II. “Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam”
III. “Oculus non vidit”
Two Bicinia from “Il primo libro della musica a due voci”
I. Bicinium No. 34 GIOVANNI PAOLO CIMA (1570—1622)
II. Bicinium No. 21 ORAZIO VECCHI (1550—1605)
Chanson: “Contentez vous”
PIERRE CERTON (ca.1510—1572)
Ricercar I from “Ricercate a due voci”
ANNIBALE ZUCCARO (flor. 1603—1609)
Transitional Period and Late-Classical Music for 2 Instruments
Duetto for Two Violas in G Major, F. 61
WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH (1710—1784)
I. Allegro
II. Lamento
III. Presto
Duo for Violin and Viola in D major, StWV 203, No. 1
JOHANN FRANZ XAVER STERKEL (1750—1817)
I. Andante
II. [without indication]
Biographies The English-Tobin Duo - Historical Violins and Violas
Now based in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes violist Ashley English and violist/baroque violinist John Paul Tobin met in 2013 while working together as studio, touring, and television broadcast musicians in Los Angeles, California. As the English-Tobin Duo, they have performed Historically-Informed interpretations of music for violas and violins since 2015. A shared love of the inherent expressive intensity of Early Music, coupled with the ability to exploit the full range of tonal colors made available by the use of carefully-curated authentic instruments — violas and violins which are, at the same time, tonally different, yet complementary — allow the English-Tobin Duo to present programming designed to transport the listener back to a time when musical tastes and affectations were novel and refined, meaningful and transcendent.
In addition to the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Ashley English and John Paul Tobin serve in leadership roles as Concertmaster, Principal Violist, Assistant Principal Viola and Soloists in the region’s finest ensembles, such as the Williamsport Chamber Players, Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, Mansfield Opera Theatre, Susquehanna Valley Chorale, Cantata Singers, and the daKah Hip Hop Orchestra in Los Angeles. John Paul Tobin teaches Viola, Baroque Violin & Baroque Viola at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania where he also serves as the Conductor of the Lycoming College String Ensemble, Music Director of the Young Artist Baroque Orchestra at Lycoming College, and Assistant Conductor of the Lycoming College Community Orchestra. Ashley English maintains a robust studio of Traditional and Kaleidoscope violin and viola students at St. John’s School of the Arts in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and privately, around the region.
Now based in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes violist Ashley English and violist/baroque violinist John Paul Tobin met in 2013 while working together as studio, touring, and television broadcast musicians in Los Angeles, California. As the English-Tobin Duo, they have performed Historically-Informed interpretations of music for violas and violins since 2015. A shared love of the inherent expressive intensity of Early Music, coupled with the ability to exploit the full range of tonal colors made available by the use of carefully-curated authentic instruments — violas and violins which are, at the same time, tonally different, yet complementary — allow the English-Tobin Duo to present programming designed to transport the listener back to a time when musical tastes and affectations were novel and refined, meaningful and transcendent.
In addition to the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Ashley English and John Paul Tobin serve in leadership roles as Concertmaster, Principal Violist, Assistant Principal Viola and Soloists in the region’s finest ensembles, such as the Williamsport Chamber Players, Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, Mansfield Opera Theatre, Susquehanna Valley Chorale, Cantata Singers, and the daKah Hip Hop Orchestra in Los Angeles. John Paul Tobin teaches Viola, Baroque Violin & Baroque Viola at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania where he also serves as the Conductor of the Lycoming College String Ensemble, Music Director of the Young Artist Baroque Orchestra at Lycoming College, and Assistant Conductor of the Lycoming College Community Orchestra. Ashley English maintains a robust studio of Traditional and Kaleidoscope violin and viola students at St. John’s School of the Arts in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and privately, around the region.
