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Name: Mike Roberts
Skills: Teacher (Drum tutor)
Phone: +44 (0)7957 327212
Address: 13 High Street, Barkingside, Essex IG6 2AA, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Mike is a highly trained professional musician with an HND in Popular Music and a depth of experience as a player in both contemporary and classical music.

Originally from Devon, Mike is experienced in both classical percussion and modern drum kit. His experience and classical training has given Mike the opportunity to develop both show playing and modern kit work, and he has performed in diverse works from classical percussion ensembles to shows such as Godspel, Annie, Cabaret onto the work he currently is involved with in backing up and coming Pop/Rock bands as a session drummer.

Accordingly, Mike's versatile backgrounds enables him to back up his teaching with his broad musical experience making him an ideal tutor for students wishing to study rock, pop, jazz, funk, latin, reading, show style and classical snare drum.

 

Name: Meg Rodgers
Skills: Soloist, Instrumentalist (Harpist)
Phone: +1 (269) 429 6377
Address: Stevensville, MI, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Meg Rodgers received her Master of Music degree in Harp Performance from Northwestern University and her Bachelor of Music degree from DePauw University. She also studied in Vienna with Adhelaide Blovsky-Miller, harpist for the Vienna State Opera. Other teachers include Alice Chalifoux at the Salzedo Harp Colony, Suzann Davids, and Liz Cifani.

Meg currently performs with the Laporte County Symphony, the South Bend Symphony, and the Rockford Symphony (IL). She has free-lanced for 14 years throughout Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois playing for weddings, receptions,and also corporate events for companies such as Lenox, Honeywell, and Commonwealth Edison. Meg also serves as Artist in Residence for St. Joseph Public Schools.

 

Name: Ernesto Rodrigues
Skills: Composer,Player
Phone: +351217261027
Address: Rua Filipe da Mata, 95-3º esq, Lisboa 1600-070, Portugal
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Born in Lisbon in 1959; improviser, composer - violin, viola, electronics. His main interest shifted towards contemporary improvised and composed music, as well as indeterminate and graphic scores by Gerhard Stäbler. Studies with contemporary composer Emmanuel Nunes.

The relationship with his instruments is focused in sonic and textural elements. Electronic music was an early influence on his approach to violin playing, which challenges traditional romantic concepts of the violin/viola through use of preparations and micro tuning.

Has created music for films, dance, performance, video, etc. Active in different settings on the Portuguese scene for free improvised music, both as a collaborator and in leading his own groups.

Has performed at festivals all over Europe. Has created the record label Creative Sources Recordings in 1999, wich mainly concentrates on releasing experimental and electro-acoustic music.

 

Name: Rodrigo Rodriguez
Skills: Composer, Multi-instrumentalist (Multi-instrumentalist)
Phone: +81 (0)3 5783 0104
Fax: +81 (0)3 5783 0104
Address: Tokyo 1400002, Japan
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Born in 1978, Argentina. Rodriguez spent most of his life in Spain (island of Majorca), arriving there in 1988. From an early age, he started to study modern and classical music. Rodrigo started his professional musical career in Spain, he came across his first Asian instrument the Shakuhachi flute (a Japanese bamboo flute, used by Buddhist monks in meditation practices). Fascinated by the Japanese music, he travelled to Japan several times to learn more.

He studied with Grand Master, Kaoru Kakizakai in the International Shakuhachi Kenshu-kan School and travels around the world learning traditional instruments from Japan, China, India, Iran to Thailand. He began showing interest in tradicional and ethnic musical instruments before he reached teenagehood. Rodriguez' compositions can be divided into three basic categories, New Age, World Music, and Contemporary music. From his earliest years Rodrigo had a vision for imitating the music and sounds he heard in his mind, since he traveled widely, he acquired a rare collection of experiences from which to create his unique compositional language

Since 2004, Rodrigo has been the first musician in Japan to introduce innovated and developed instruments from European countries (Hang Drum), which significantly influenced to his music, composition and Japanese audiences altering the perception and textures of 21st century sounds.

His concept is not to use those instruments in a native way, respecting the own spirit of each instrument, and does not forget his roots as Spanish musician. In 2006 some of the pieces of the album "Inner Thoughts" was licensed, arousing interest of a recognized record company, Gemini Sun Record based in Los Angeles, CA. Rodrigo has in recent years performed numerous concerts in the West and East, at legendary stages like Imperial Hotel Tokyo and NHK Culture Center of Japan.

 

Name: Lizary Rodriguez-Rios
Skills: Player, Soloist, Teacher (Harpist, Flute and Harp Duo)
Phone: +1 (303) 915 1590 (USA)/787-755-7551 (Puerto Rico)
Fax: +1 (978) 215 4565
Address: Colorado 80302, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Chamber performer and soloist, Lizary Rodriguez Rios, has the distinction of being the first Puerto Rican harpist to earn a doctoral degree in music, subsequent to which she earned two postgraduate degrees from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid, Spain. She has performed at numerous venues and festivals in Puerto Rico including the prestigious Casals Festival. An active performer, she toured with Grammy nominated international harp ensemble, HarpFusion, performing in the Czech Republic, Spain, Switzerland, Indonesia and Russia.

Rodriguez Rios has been a prizewinner in several international music competitions such as the “Cita di Padova” in Italy and the International Music Tournament in Marseille, France.

 

Name: Ben Roels
Skills: Soloist, pianist
Phone: +32.3.825.57.60
Address: Jozef Hertogslaan 12, Antwerp 2610, Belgium
Links: Website     E-mail
 
The Belgian pianist Ben Roels (°1968) studied at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and continued his education with Leon Fleischer (Master class Germany), Eliane Rodrigues (Belgium) and Lionel Bowman (South-Africa), Aldo Ciccolini (France/Paris) He obtained the “Diplôme Supérieur de piano” at the “Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot” in Paris where he studied with the French pianist and famous Liszt interpreter France Clidat.

He was prize winner in the “Concours International des Jeunes Solistes” in Lille, France, and won the “O. Van Puyvelde contest” in Ghent, Belgium in the same year. He made his concert debut with Rachmaninov’s 2nd piano concerto and presently offers an extended concerto repertoire including Mozart, Van Beethoven, Liszt, De Greef, Tchaikovsky, Shostakowitch and Gershwin. In recitals he often plays works from “forgotten” composers such as Arthur De Greef (Belgian pianist/composer and pupil of Liszt). Liszt mainly influences Ben Roels’ repertoire. The virtuosity, sensitivity and lyric aspect of Liszt’s music fit very well with the personality of this pianist.

Ben Roels performed in Belgium (Festival of Flanders, Centre of fine Arts Brussels “Palais des Beaux Arts Henry Le Boeuf Hall, deSingel Antwerp), The Netherlands, France, Germany, the U.S.A. and South Africa. He made guest appearances for the Belgian Classical Radio “Klara”. His CD “Liszt Revisited” was recorded in South Africa and released by Senzanome in Brussels in 2006.

“Roels’ Liszt interpretations are extraordinary with an outstanding technique and an unheard deep expression…” (Lionel Bowman, pianist) “Ben Roels is undoubtedly ranked among the most talented and promising Belgian pianists of his generation…” (Alain Roeland, conductor). “Ben Roels’ playing was so intense he kept the audience quiet, a real achievement during wintertime…” (D. Clotman, journalist). “In perfect grace and transparency, never sentimental, Ben Roels gave a first-class Liszt-interpretation…” (Die Speyer Zeitung, Germany). “An amazing sound in forte passages and controlled virtuoso playing, Ben Roels gave an interpretation with fascinating tension…a maximum musical and physical performance…” (Speyerer Tagepost).

 

Name: Romantic-Duo
Skills: ensemble, Flute and Piano Duo
Phone: +7 (095) 935 45 48
Fax: +7 (095) 916 09 71
Address: Novatorov str., 34-3, app.7, MOSCOW 117421, Russia
Links: E-mail
 
Anton ABANOVITCH(flute) and Mikhail KANDINCKY(piano) have created ROMANTIC-DUO in the beginning of 1999. Since February they have begun actively and regularly giving recitals in Moscow. ROMANTIC-DUO has in repertoire mostly pieces of romantic composer: Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Paganini, Godard, Doppler, Reinecke, von Weber, Bizet, Franck as well as Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Debussy, Prokofiev, some contemporary music...

Anton Abanovitch have been playing the flute since seven years old . In 1997 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Music having obtained the Master degree. Anton Abanovitch has been working in symphonic orchestras (conducted by Rozhdestvensky, Dudarova, Polyansky, Gorenstein, Ziva) since 1994. He has been on tour within these orchestras in many countries, such as Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Japan, Slovakia, Slovenia ... He took part in several flute festivals and master classes and took lessons in Europe at the professors from Hochschule fur Musik "Hans Eisler" Berlin and Hochschulle fur Musik "Franz Liszt"Weimar, Germany; Sibelius Music Academy Helsinki, Finland.

Mikhail Kandincky began study music at six years old. He was learnt in Gnessins Musical Special School and in Moscow State Conservatoire (class Prof. Eliso Virsaladze). In 1996 - 1998 he took a post- graduated course at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Prof. H. Milne. In 1998 he entered the post - graduated course in Russian Academy of Music, Moscow. He took part in several musical festivals and gave recitals in Russia, Germany, Italy, England

 

Name: Erik Ronmark
Skills: Soloist, Teacher (Concert Saxophonist)
Address: Sweden
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Swedish saxophonist Erik Rönmark came to the United States in 1996 to continue his musical education. To date, Rönmark has commissioned over 20 works by emerging composers but has also worked closely with established names such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Betsy Jolas, Terry Riley, and Karen Tanaka.

An accomplished chamber musician, Rönmark is the First-Prize winner of both the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the Coleman Chamber Music Competition. As a soloist or an orchestral saxophonist he has performed with the Windsor, Ann Arbor, Aberdeen (SD), and Sundsvall (Sweden) Symphonies. In 2000, Dr. Rönmark received the prestigious American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Award for establishing valuable relationships between Sweden and America.

As an educator and performer, Rönmark has given recitals and masterclasses in the United States, Canada and Europe and can be heard as quartet saxophonist on the Equilibrium label. He is currently in the process of recording an album for saxophone and strings to be released in 2006.

Dr. Rönmark received his D.M.A. from The University of Michigan where he studied with the renowned saxophonist Donald Sinta. He received his B.A. (Summa cum laude) from Northern State University (SD) and his M.M. from Bowling Green State University (OH). Dr. Rönmark was most recently the saxophone instructor at the University of Windsor, Canada.

 

Name: Ron Roos
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Player, Multimedia Web Design (Multimedia Web Development - www.artfulspider.com)
Phone: +1 909 389 9807
Address: 9410 Lilac Road, Forest Falls, California 92339, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
I was Trained in classical piano at an early age, but forcibly, so I hated it. Wasn't until about age 17 that I rediscovered the piano on my own (Grandma's baby grand) and rekindled my love for music, and opened the creative doors within myself. Bought a Roland linear synth shortly thereafter, and went nuts. Played keyboard for a Rock band, and recorded abstract stuff with another keyboardist, using an early MOOG synth, and an old ARP Oddysey. Put together a blues band with Gerry Ellenson (he's one of your reviewers here) called "Swine Blue", and had the time of my life. We've collaborated on a few MIDI's recently. Since that magic day on Grandma's baby grand, 23 years ago, I have become quite adept at playing the guitar (12 string acoustic, 6 string classical and an electric (Fender Strat), somewhat adept with the violin (4 of 'em), alto and tenor saxophone, harmonica (blues harp), and most recently, the computer. I do most of my sequencing with cakewalk, but also employ various other multitrackers including N-Track studio, as well as a myriad of sequencers, and other music related software for composition. The PC opened a lot of doors for me, musically. I'm a web developer by trade ( www.artfulspider.com ), and have a built-in need for creative expression, which I feed regularly. On the job, my efforts are primarily visual, but in the wee hours of the night, I make music until I pass out in my chair. Favorite music includes anything by Rick Wakeman, Pink Floyd, The Mighty Flyers, Yes, Kansas, ELP, Pat Methany, Lyle Mays, Thelonius Monk, Al Dimeola, and Beethoven.

 

Name: Bobby Rootveld
Skills: Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Manager, Player, Publisher, Soloist, Teacher, Writer, actor, comedian
Phone: +31-743841718
Address: Tusveld 71, Bornerbroek 7627 NW, Netherlands
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Bobby Rootveld(1981) is a guitarist, composer, actor/comedian & producer from the Netherlands. He studied classical guitar with his father Fred Rootveld and with Louis Ignatius Gall (at the conservatory of Enschede), former student of Andres Segovia. Bobby is a member of Duo NIHZ (guitar and recorder combined with theatre) and The Guitar Company (guitar-trio). He plays multiple string & percussion-instruments. Bobby Rootveld has his own record-label which specializes in cabaret, comedy, classical music & 'popmusic with an edge'. He's also on stage as a comedian in cabaret-shows. As an actor he has played some small rolls in movies. Bobby Rootveld followed masterclasses with Jim ten Boske, Yves Storms, Reinbert Evers, Richard Pilkington, Massimo Laura, Edith Leerkens, Ullrich Steier, Theo Willemze, Henk Olden, Karel de Rooij (Mini & Maxi), Lyz Day and Jim Johnson. There are cd's and dvd's available with Bobby Rootveld as a musician/comedian.

 

Name: Benita Rose
Skills: Accompanist, Soloist, Teacher (Piano)
Address: 377 Stearns Road, Mansfield CT 06250, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Benita Rose, pianist, has performed throughout the United States, Brazil, and Latvia as soloist, accompanist or chamber musician. She has been soloist with the Willimantic Orchestra and the Connecticut String Orchestra. As soloist with the U.S.Coast Guard Band, her performance was heard on over 200 NPR radio stations on Martin Goldsmith's program "Performance Today". Ms.Rose has served as a judge for various piano competitions throughout the state of Connecticut. She has been a scholarship student at the University of Connecticut and the Hartt School where she received the prestigious Parker award and received her Master of Music degree. Her teachers include Luiz de Moura Castro, Joseph Villa and Louis Crowder. She has also received coaching from Ilana Vered and Menahem Pressler. Many of her piano students are prize winners. Ms.Rose is founding member of the Hop River Chamber Players in Andover, Connecticut.

 

Name: Duncan Rose
Skills: Teacher (Drum tutor)
Phone: +44 (0)1773 710927
Address: 3 Hoggs Field, Eastwood, Nottingham NG16 3HN, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Duncan has been playing drums since his school days and has gigged in numerous bands over the past years including both rock, dance and classical. Experienced at playing live and in the studio to dance tracks with a click track, he has a solid groove and excellent timing.

Having just obtained distinctions in his sound engineering exams, he has a wide musical knowledge currently being put to use in his home recording and tuition studio. He has a very wide musical taste as evidenced by his huge CD collection and is comfortable playing in any style from rock to dance to classical.

 

Name: Eros Roselli
Skills: Soloist, Teacher
Address: Italy
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Eros Roselli studied classical guitar with Ruggero Chiesa and won prizes and awards he won at “F. Sor” International Competition in Rome, International Festival of 20th Century Music of Lagonegro, International Award "Sua Altezza Real la Infanta Doña Cristina" in Madrid... He performs in concert in Italy and abroad both as a soloist and in chamber groups. His performances have been broadcast for the Italian State Broadcasting Authority RAI, BBC, Radio Nacional Española, Classic New York (WNYC) and Australia’s National Classical Music Network. Eros Roselli has recorded Mauro Giuliani's quintets for guitar and strings, the Serenades by Diabelli, works for guitar and strings by Vivaldi, solo guitar pieces by Paganini, by Bach and Studies for guitar by Fernando Sor.

Reagrding the Sor CD American Record Guide has written: “superb Italian guitarist Eros Roselli is a first-rate musician and he offers probing interpretations of even the most unassuming miniatures, employing his supple sense of phrasing, pristine articulation, and full tone to remarkably satisfying effect”.

He currently teaches classical guitar in the State Conservatoire in Adria. In 1984 he took a degree in sociology at the University of Trento when he wrote a thesis on contemporary music.

 

Name: Rosendale String Quartet
Skills: Ensemble
Phone: +44 (0)7939 278 484
Address: 31 Stradella Rd, herne Hill, London se24 9hn, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
All female London based young professional string quartet. Formed when they were students together at the Royal College of Music, they have performed extensively around London, for recitals, competitions, conferences; corporate functions and weddings.

Venues performed at include Kensington Palace; St. James' Palace; National Gallery; National Portrait Gallery; Spencer House. The Rosendale String quartet were also ensemble in residence for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Arts 2000-2001.

They were the winners of the Helen Just and Susan Connell chamber music prizes at the RCM. They have appeared in performances with choirs, and with other prestigious instrumentalists. They are part of the young artists series in the Lake District Summer Festival 2001.

Available for recitals; background music engagements; recordings; session work; work with bands.

 

Name: Thomas Rosenkranz
Skills: Player,Soloist (Pianist)
Address: 62 Berkeley St, Rochester, NY 14607, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Pianist, Thomas Rosenkranz has performed all over the United States in solo, chamber and improvisation concerts. He has been praised for giving a "highly imaginative program that was the freshest I've heard in many seasons"- (Houston Chronicle). He has performed at such venues as the 92 Street Y, Miller Theatre, and Symphony Space in New York City, at the University of Oregon's "Festival of the Millennium", as well as a 13-city tour throughout Japan and Taiwan as a member of the Eastman Wind Ensemble.

He was the 1999 National Winner at the MTNA Collegiate Artist Piano Competition, and has been a guest artist at the Georgia, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, and Washington State Music Teacher's Conventions. His performances have been broadcast world wide as part as the WGBH Boston Program, Art of the States.

Thomas has worked with some of the most important composers of today, including John Adams, George Crumb, and Frederic Rzewski. He recently performed Rzewski's epic piano work "The People United will Never Be Defeated!" at Albright and Moravian Colleges in Pennsylvania and his performance was described as "a towering, passionate interpretation that made the concert one that will be very hard to shake off"- (Reading Times)

Thomas graduated with his Bachelor's of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and his Master's of Music and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He will be pursuing his Doctorate Degree at Eastman continuing his studies with Nelita True.

 

Name: Dean Rosenthal
Skills: Composer
Address: Florence, MA 01062, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Dean Rosenthal (born 1974 in Concord, Massachusetts) is an American composer of electronic and instrumental music.

His "Portrait" series was aired in 1998 in the Southwest of the United States. Other works appeared in cities and towns at home and abroad, including "Underpinnings," "Songs from the Japanese," and "Traill".

After a brief hiatus from music from 2000-2006, he resumed his role as composer and he now continues to write and promote his music from his home in Florence, Massachusetts.

"Underpinnings" (1998) was included in a Cd compilation on one Trace Label of Paris in March of 2007.

 

Name: James Ross
Skills: Conductor, Writer
Address: United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
James Ross was a finalist in the 1998 BBC Conducting Competition and is currently conductor of the St. Albans Symphony Orchestra, Oxford University Sinfonietta, Christ Church Festival Orchestra, Oxford, and the Welwyn Garden City Music Society. He has also conducted in Austria, Bosnia, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Serbia, Sri Lanka and the USA.

James Ross was born in 1972 and won scholarships to Harrow School and Oxford Univeristy, studying history and music, then writing a doctorate in French opera. He has been published in 'Music and Letters', 'Opera', 'Musical Times', 'English Historical Review' and has contributed to several books including 'French Music Since the Death of Berlioz' (Ashgate Press, 2005). Conducting teachers have included Peter Stark, Ernst Schelle, Victor Feldbrill, Alan Hazeldine and Zdenek Bilek.

His conducting repertoire contains over 500 works, ranging from the Baroque to contemporary music. It includes the major symphonic, concerto and choral repertoire, opera, specialist French music and first performances.

 

Name: "Rossica" Choir of St.Petersburg
Skills: choir
Phone: +7 812 1357977
Fax: +7 812 1357977
Address: 29-67, part. Germana str., St.Petersburg 198205, Russia
Links: Website     E-mail
 
"The style is quite remarkable... Valentina Kopylova has blended traditions from an almost lost past with effective training of singers covering a wide range of ages and of musical frequencies from the lowest bass to the most nimble soprano" (Stephen Daw, "Birmingham Post") "I have never before heard such fine singing." (Marcus Davey, the Director of Norfolk and Norwich Festival, England)

The "ROSSICA" Choir was formed in 1976 under the name of "Ancient Russian Music Ensemble". During the first two years of its activity (1976-1978) the choir had the stuff of only 8-12 singers and worked in partnership with Leningrad State TV Channel, what resulted in a series of short films named "Musical Novellas": Musical life in the XVIII c. St.Petersburg; Heinrig Schutz; Claudio Monteverdi; The waltzes of love (J. Brams); Serenades (Schubert, Glinka, Dargomyzski, Borodin); Bela Bartok). Since then the films have been kept in the archives of City's State TV Channel.

In 1980 the group was renamed "Rossica" (in Latin it means 'all about Russia') and restructured: since then its stuff includes 20-24 singers. In addition it has subdivisions that reflect those ancient singing forms which "Rossica" tries to revive. First of them is a male group of predominantly low voices (bases and deep bases accompanied by light tenor-voices singing an octave higher). This choir structure was characteristic of medieval singing tradition ('znamenny' and 'demestvenny' polyphony). Another main choir-form employed by "Rossica" - Russian Church choir of the age of the so called 'Russian Baroque'. It is a group of 20-24 solo-singers; each of them performs his part in 8-12-16- and 24-voice choir-scores. This choral structure was modeled on European baroque string and wind orchestra. But since instrumental music was prohibited in Orthodox liturgical practice, Russian composers of that time were bound to give orchestral characteristics to voiceparts; hence choral music of this style is remarkable for its technical complexity. So that special features ot baroque singing in the XVII c. Russia has predetermined both number (under 24 voices) and quality of "Rossica"'s stuff.

The "Rossica" Choir enjoys steady success at best concert halls and cathedrals of Russia: St.-Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Rachmaninov Hall of Moscow Conservatoire, The Pillar Hall of the Palace of Unions (Moscow), St.Sofia Cathedral in Kiev, St.Sofia, St.George and other churches and Cathedrals of Novgorod.

 

Name: Nichole An-janette Rowbottom
Skills: Administrator, Arranger, Player, Singer, Teacher (Can teach flute, bassoon, theory and help with GCSE and AS/A-Level work)
Phone: +44 (0)1924 360302
Address: 70 Wrenthorpe Road, Wakefield WF2 0JS, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail

 

Name: Helen Jane Rowley
Skills: Composer, Player, Teacher (Violinist)
Phone: +44 (0)7734 693045
Address: United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
I am currently studying for a PhD in music composition with Colin Riley. My first project for submittion is a ballet for large orchestra based on the poem by Alexander Pope, 'The Rape of the Lock'.

At the moment I am working on my second project, orchestral music for film, television and contextual music. I have written four pieces, Metropolis - the sights and sounds of a metropolitan city, Pluto - the icy planet, Iridescence - changing colours and a substantial work called Overtones which uses the harmonic series.

I also have considerable experience as an orchestral violinist and teach both privately and for the London Borough of Harrow Music Service.

 

 


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