Musical Performance
"Cello Alone" Performance by Frances Rowell, NJSO Cellist
- Item Number
- 511
- Estimated Value
- 1000 USD
- Sold
- 550 USD to lvr75
- Number of Bids
- 7 - Bid History
Item Description
A program of solo cello music celebrating the history of this beautiful instrument. This hour-long program will be customized to ANY audience, from a class of elementary school students to a musicale for friends and family in your home.
To be scheduled for a mutually agreeable date during the 2012–13 concert season.
A versatile and enterprising cellist dedicated to musical outreach, FRANCES ROWELL received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Juilliard School. She taught cello at Muhlenberg College for twelve years and is currently on the adjunct faculty of New Jersey City State University and Montclair State University. An inventor as well as a cellist, she received a United States Patent for a portable endpin resonating platform for the cello.
In 1992 the city of Allentown, PA bestowed on Ms. Rowell its Arts Ovation Award for outstanding achievement in the performing arts. She has premiered several cello works written for her, including Gwyneth Walker’s North Country Concerto with the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra in 1995 and Douglas Oven’s Concerto for Cello with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra in 1996.
Ms. Rowell has been a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 1995. As a member of the Craftsbury Chamber Players she performs chamber music each summer in her home state of Vermont.
Ms. Rowell is a past Coordinator of the NJSO’s REACH Program (Resources for Education and Community Harmony). She is currently on the roster of Young Audiences of New Jersey in a string quartet program. She has also served Young Audiences as a teaching artist working with young soloists from the radio program From the Top in presentations in public schools.
Ms. Rowell served as President of the American String Teachers Association New Jersey chapter for 2008–2010.
Item Special Note
Expires June 30, 2013. Location must be within a one hour drive of Newark, NJ.
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