Fringe Activities Master
Class: There will be a master class
offered to select students on Friday, January 29th at 1:00 PM, Fox
Fine Arts Music Building. From the non-competing pool of candidates, others
students will be selected from the submitted recordings and will be invited
to participate in the master class. Wynn-Anne
Rossi will be the master clinician of her own work. Composer-In-Residence Wynn-Anne Rossi
Wynn-Anne Rossi is a dynamic composer and unique music
educator. Her compositions have reached audiences throughout the United
States and across the oceans. She has over 100 publications, primarily for
piano, which are widely distributed online and in music stores. Her
repertoire also includes works for vocal and chamber groups, concert band and
orchestra. Various commissions have been sponsored by Minnesota Public
Radio, the National Endowment for the Arts, Music Teachers National
Association and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Wynn-Anne has a specialty for bringing the art of
composition to young musicians. She has been offering composition residencies
in Minnesota schools since 2003, inspiring hundreds of students to write
their own music. Partnerships have included the St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra, MacPhail Center for Music and the Cowles Center for Dance and
Performing Arts. Rossi has also written two comprehensive series which
encourage young pianists to compose: ÒMusic by MeÓ (FJH, with Kevin Olson)
and most recently, ÒCreative Composition ToolboxÓ (Alfred).
Active
as a presenter, Wynn-Anne is known for her innovative lectures, workshops and
master classes. Musical outreach has taken her from coast to coast and beyond
the borders of the United States. Her talks often center on the
importance of musical self-expression. ÒDiscover LatinÓ is one of her
most popular presentations, inspired by the 8-book piano series, "Mœsica
Latina".
Rossi
was educated at the University of Colorado in theory and composition.
Further training included choral conducting at Harvard University and jazz
pedagogy through the University of Illinois. She has also studied
composition under Pulitzer Prize recipient Aaron Jay Kernis.
What
does Wynn-Anne do other than music? She loves to ice-skate or
roller-blade, depending on the weather. She practices elementary
juggling to inspire humility and often brainstorms while watching red-bellied
woodpeckers at her bird feeder. Family members include her husband
Greg, Alley the cat and her awesome son, Nick.
Judges
Tatiana Vetrinskaya was born in Latvia and began
playing the piano at age seven. After receiving degrees from the State
Musical College and the National Conservatory in Turkmenistan, she continued
her musical studies at the Moscow Gnesin Academy of Music, where she completed
the doctoral program in ensemble performance. Tatiana
was the first recipient of a fellowship from the John Donald Robb Musical
Trust. This enabled her to study the piano manuscripts of Robb in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has been a frequent performer on the John
Donald RobbÕs ComposerÕs Symposium held at the University of New Mexico, and
has also performed with the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque. Notable
Solo Performances include collaborations with the St. Louis Kamergild Chamber
Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Albuquerque, the University of New
Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque. Tatiana has also offered concerts and
lecture performances at concerts and Lecture Performances at Washington
University, St. Louis, Missouri, The University of Texas, El Paso, Texas, the
Steinway Society Concert Series, Princeton, New Jersey, at the 2003 Society
of American Music Conference, Tempe, Arizona and also at the American
Symphony Orchestra LeagueÕs 58th National Conference, San Francisco,
California. Recorded
albums include: ¥
Pictures of New
Mexico, John Donald Robb ¥
Piano Concerto
with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra ¥
Russia into a
Modern World, Tatiana Vetrinskaya Nohema Fern‡ndez
Dr.
Nohema Fernandez has enjoyed a career as an educator for over 40 years,
teaching at community colleges in Monterey and Salinas, as well as public
universities in California and Arizona. She came to the Bay Area in 1978 to
earn a doctorate at Stanford University (Music) and raise her daughter. This
home served as the springboard for developing an international career as a
concert pianist and part time teacher at U.C. Santa Cruz, even as her
daughter went through the school system, graduating from high school. In the
course of her performance travels, she was fortunate to have the opportunity
to offer many presentations to school children of all ages, empowering them
to believe in their ability to succeed.
She has performed nationally and internationally, carrying specialties
in Spanish and Latin American piano repertoire, and has recorded with Centaur
Records, as well as with Arcoiris, MusicMasters and Protone Records. Dr.
Fernandez's commitment to education and to community runs deep. After
teaching at the University of Arizona, she went to U.C. Irvine, serving as
dean of the School of the Arts from 2003-2008. In that position she developed
strong outreach partnership with area schools, many of which are in
underserved communities. She also served on the boards of several community
non-profit organizations, as well as boards of two international professional
associations -- the International Council of Fine Arts Deans and The College
Music Society, becoming president of the latter. Dr. Nohema Fernandez is a native of Cuba, having emigrated
to the U.S. as a teenager. Now living in Redwood City, she enjoys being close
to her daughter and two grandchildren. For enjoyment, she uses her pilot's
license to fly in the Bay Area and beyond. She is an extra special guest, as she was the last piano
teacher of Dr. Jones and also taught Dr. Macchioni, who both received their
doctorate degrees under her tutelage.
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