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The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center presents Fredonia musicians and educators David & Ann Rose in concert on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
David Rose has served as a titled player of numerous orchestras, including Associate Principal of the Vancouver Symphony, Principal Viola of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, and Acting Assistant Principal of the San Francisco Symphony. Also active as a baroque performer, he was a member of the Pacific Baroque orchestra, and has toured and recorded with Toronto's Tafelmusik. For many years, he was a member of the International Baroque Soloists of the Opera House's Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival.
Rose studied viola at the University of British Columbia, and Indiana University (Bloomington). His main teachers included Gerald Stanick, Atar Arad and Stanley Ritchie. He serves as associate professor of Viola and head of strings at the State University of New York at Fredonia, and teaches in the summer at the Rocky Ridge Young Artists Seminar in the Colorado Rockies, as well as at the Fredonia Summer String Festival.
Most recently, he presented masterclasses at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Eastman School of Music. He has been presenting performances of all six Bach Cello Suites, having recorded them this past Spring, and most recently performed all six for the American Viola Society Festival. Ann Park-Rose was born in South Korea and began studying piano at the age of 5. She has been improvising and composing since childhood and has pursued these passions into three music degrees, at Wilfred Laurier University and at SUNY Fredonia.
Deeply involved with improv throughout her life, Park-Rose participated in the Music for People workshop for many years under the tutelage of Grammy Winner David Darling. She is very engaged with the improv scene in Western New York and beyond, lecturing on the topic, and improvising regularly with dance groups, the Improv Collective at SUNY Fredonia, and as a soloist.
She is the winner of numerous competitions and awards, including most recently a full scholarship to the Golandsky Summer Institute at Princeton University, where she studied the Taubman approach to the piano.
As a pianist, she has appeared with the Canadian Chamber Ensemble, and has appeared on CBC television. Her music has been performed and recorded by artists in Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
She earned a Master's degree in piano performance at the SUNY Fredonia School of Music under Fr. Sean Duggan, and holds two bachelor's degrees in Music Composition and Music Education. She has published music for solo viola through the American Viola Society and recently returned from a European tour with her duo piano partner Jiri Pazour, playing improvised music for two pianos. This tour led to a CD recording entitled "Bridge Across the Ocean." She is a general music teacher and chorus director at Sinclairville Elementary School.
Tickets are $15, $13 (Opera House Members) and $10 (Students). A special two-concert ticket is available for $26 which also includes a ticket to An Evening of Cello & Violin with Jolyon Pegis and Maria Schleuning on Oct. 28.
Tickets may be purchased in person at the Opera House Box Office or by phone at 716-679-1891, Tuesday through Friday, noon to 4:30 p.m. They also may be purchased anytime online at www.fredopera.org.
The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center is a member-supported not-for-profit performing arts center with a mission to "present the performing arts for the benefit of our community and region ... providing access to artistic diversity ... and high quality programming at an affordable price." It is located in Village Hall in downtown Fredonia. For a complete schedule of events, visit www.fredopera.org.