![]() ![]() ![]() In these roles, she works to bring the harp to as many students as possible and teaches students of all ages and abilities. Formerly she was the Professor of Harp at Nazareth College and the Harp Instructor at the Eastman Community Music School. 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. 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 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. ![]() ![]() Rosanna also provides workshops to musicians on stage presence and etiquette and the use of acting techniques from theatre practitioners to further musical expression.Īs a self-described ‘professional composer collector’, Rosanna pesters composers until they write for her! This has led 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 percussion and harp duo Sticks & Strings, an upcoming recording project with flute, viola, harp trio, Trio Alexander, and new interdisciplinary commissions with 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. 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 rescheduled World Harp Congress in Cardiff, 2022. In 2021, she will appear for the fifth year as principal harp with the Lake George Music Festival, NY.Īs 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 . She was invited to give the opening solo recital at the Sentmentat International Harp Festival, Spain in 2018. 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 has 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. 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. ![]()
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