Fall 2006 Classical Recital will be held this year in an elegant historical mansion with grand piano and cello. The program will include a magnificently diverse program of solo and ensemble medieval songs, German Lieder; English Renaissance; French, Italian and Finnish Art Songs and opera arias. As is our tradition each year, our youngest singer will open the evening with the time-honored 17th Century Italian Art Song, Caro mio ben.
Winter 2006 Student Rock and Roll Concert rocked in the New Year to a sold out house at the World-Famous Fine Line Music Café with a five-piece world-class rock band, and there was no rock left unrolled at the end of this slammin’ show!
Spring 2005 Classical Recital at Grace-Trinity Community Church was a beautiful success with a selection of French, German, Italian, Spanish, Nicaraguan, English Renaissance Art and Traditional folk songs arranged in a classic style. As usual, we were blessed with sensitive and inspired piano accompaniment by Mary Goetz and lighting, audio and video recording by Ed Wons of JPC Productions.
Summer of 2004 brings a wonderful opportunity to explore the Jazz genre with a 12 hour workshop headed by Minneapolis-based greats, Bruce Henry and Prudence Johnson. And then on to a jazz ‘gig’ for all participants at one of the leading jazz clubs in the Twin Cities.
Summer of 2003 began with a very funky rhythm and blues concert at Musictech Auditorium in St. Paul, replete with a very rocking full band, lights, sound lots of r&b harmonies and moves… a huge success for all!
Summer 2002, concert featured theatrical repertoire, old and new, at the beautiful Southern Theatre in Minneapolis.
Our Winter 2002 concert was professionally staged at the beautifully resonant Grace-Trinity Church, an old stone church in Uptown. Our performance theme for this concert was 17th, 18th and 19th century "art songs" (precursor to the modern "pop song").
Our Summer 2001 concert recital featured another professional production of our normal eclectic mix of music styles in performance in the exquisite indoor flower garden at the Como Park Conservatory in St. Paul.
Our Summer 2000 concert featured performance of pop, theatre, country, classical and rock music with a full band, lighting and world class sound system at the Acadia Cabaret in Minneapolis
Please E-mail me if you have questions and visit the site again soon for new programs and photos.
-Diana Grasselli
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