Brass Roots Trio - Midday Concert September 20, 2024
Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Midday Concert @ 1:00 on September 20th with Brass Roots Trio. The concert is free to the public and held at the Moore Community Center Theater in Ellsworth, Maine. Travis Heath (Trumpet), Douglas Lundeen (French Horn), and Rosetta Senkus Bacon (Piano) - photos courtesy of the musicians.
Brass Roots Trio to perform a Midday Concert @ 1:00 on September 20th at Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI).
ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Midday Concert @ 1:00 on September 20th with Brass Roots Trio (Trumpet, French Horn, and Piano).
The concert will be held at the Moore Community Center Theater at 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. The series is sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) with funding assistance from The City of Ellsworth. Admission is free to the public.
Brass Roots Trio (TRUMPET, FRENCH HORN, and PIANO plus the bonus of a brilliant operatic tenor) redefines the chamber music genre with a fusion of styles. With classical roots and eclectic content, Brass Roots Trio’s programs take unexpected twists and turns, from brilliant Baroque gems played on piccolo trumpet, to decadent tangos, to American masters Bernstein, Copland, and Gershwin.
Travis Heath (trumpet & flugelhorn), Douglas Lundeen (French horn, Native American Flute & vocalist) and Rosetta Senkus Bacon (piano) infuse their music with exuberant energy. Their warmhearted presentation, with commentaries that are informative and often humorous, makes an immediate connection with the audience.
A pioneer of this instrumentation, Brass Roots Trio has performed in every corner of the US and England since 2004. In 2009 the trio was honored to perform for President and Mrs. Obama and their guests at the White House. Individually the artists have demonstrated their prodigious talents across the country and around the world with engagements at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in NY, and at Cultural Centers and festivals in Switzerland, England, Ireland, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, The Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Lithuania, Japan, China and Taiwan.
Exhilarating performances and imaginative programming have established BRASS ROOTS TRIO as one of the most compelling ensembles of the 21st century.
The founding member of Brass Roots Trio, pianist and arranger Rosetta Senkus Bacon has performed throughout North America, Europe and Asia with concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Taipei County Cultural Center in Taiwan, St. Moritz Cultural Center in Switzerland, and Kaunus Philharmonic Hall in Lithuania. A frequent guest at international festivals, Rosetta has served on faculties and performed at The International Summer Chamber Music Festival in Taiwan and The International School of Performing Arts in Bucks County, PA where she accompanied Master Classes of Metropolitan Opera stars Sherrill Milnes and Gilda Cruz-Roma. She concertized with Metropolitan Opera soprano Judith Raskin and the internationally acclaimed Lithuanian clarinetist Algirdas Budrys. In a lighter vein she was one of the duo-pianists in “Side By Side By Sondheim” starring Arlene Francis and Hermione Gingold. A native of West Virginia, Rosetta graduated from West Virginia University and received a Master’s Degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. She was the recipient of the “Outstanding Musician Award” from the West Virginia Arts & Humanities Commission.
Douglas Lundeen originally trained as an opera singer with Frank Baselice of the Metropolitan Opera. Self-taught on the French horn, he won first prize for solo natural horn in the 1987 American Horn Competition. Since then, Dr. Lundeen has played principal horn with period instrument orchestras in New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Vancouver and Washington, DC under such conductors as Hogwood, Norrington, Brüggen, Parrott, and Koopman. He has been a featured recitalist and master clinician at many conferences of the International Horn Society and the International Early Brass Society. Dr. Lundeen has been a featured artist/clinician in China at the Beijing Central Conservatory and the International French Horn Arts Festival in Tianjin. On the modern horn, he has soloed and played principal horn with orchestras in Costa Rica, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh as well as on Broadway Dr. Lundeen is professor emeritus at Rutgers University, having retired in July 2023 after 25 years of teaching in the Mason Gross School of the Arts and now lives the life of a gentleman subsistence farmer on his 29-acre property in upstate New York. He has recordings on the Sony, Newport Classics, Musical Heritage Society, and Centaur labels. Doug's family was adopted into a Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) family in 2005 and his sister Manitowa gifted him his first Native American flute. He has many friends now in the traditional Native community including on the Navajo, Blackfeet and Northern Cheyenne reservations, and learned about the Northern Cheyenne flute tradition from the award-winning artist Joseph Firecrow.
Dr. Travis Heath is a Professor of Trumpet at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) in Chicago, IL, where he teaches applied lessons, conducts the NEIU Wind Ensemble Ensemble, and is Director and Founder of the Chicago Brass Festival. Dr. Heath has played Principal Trumpet with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, Lead Trumpet with the American Rhapsody Orchestra and is Principal Trumpet with Camerata Chicago. His international tours include performances in Japan, England, Ireland, France, Italy, Czech Republic and Canada at prestigious musical festivals. His debut solo recording, Point of Departure, was released by the Mark Records label to high acclaim. A fifth generation Floridian from Vero Beach, Dr. Heath won the 1995 “Florida Trumpet Festival Solo Competition” and performed frequently with the Orlando Philharmonic and Brevard Symphony Orchestra and commercially at Universal Orlando Resort and Walt Disney World. Dr. Heath holds a DMA and MM from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, where he studied with Dr. Scott Whitener and William Fielder and received the John I. Bettenbender Memorial Performance Award for outstanding artistic achievement. He holds a BM from the University of Central Florida where he studied with John Almeida.