Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano, is an acclaimed soloist and recitalist whose singing has been praised for her "exquisite vocal color," "musical sensitivity," and "eloquent phrasing." Recent appearances include the premiere of a new John Harbison work,The Seven Ages, which she performed in New York, San Francisco, Boston and London. Ms. Dellal made her Kennedy Center debut under Julian Wachner in the B-minor Mass, and her Lincoln Center debut under renowned conductor William Christie in Messiah. She has also performed with Seiji Ozawa, Christopher Hogwood, Paul McCreesh, Bernard Labadie and Roger Norrington. Operatic appearances include leading roles in the operas Alcina, Albert Herring, Dido and Aeneas, La Clemenza di Tito, Così Fan Tutte, Vanessa, The Rape of Lucretia, and A Winter's Tale. She has performed with the Boston Early Music Festival, Tokyo Oratorio Society, National Chamber Orchestra, the Washington Chorus, the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, and the Dallas Bach Society, and has appeared throughout the U.S. in concerts and recitals.
With Sequentia, Ms. Dellal has made numerous recordings of the music of Hildegard von Bingen, and has toured the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Passionate about chamber music, early music, and contemporary music, she performs frequently with Boston Musica Viva, Ensemble Chaconne, Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, and the Musicians of the Old Post Road. She has been a regular soloist in the Emmanuel Music Bach Cantata series for twenty-five years, having performed almost all 200 of Bach's sacred cantatas. She has over twenty-five recordings to her credit, on the Artona, BMG, CRI, Dorian, Meridian, and KOCH labels, among others.
Rosalie Gerut, the daughter of Holocaust survivors is a co-founder of One by One, an international, nonprofit organization founded by the children of both survivors and members of the Nazi Regime. The group bears witness against racism, injustice and genocide around the world. Rosalie has appeared internationally on television, radio, and in concert halls as a soloist, as guest vocalist with the Klezmer Conservatory Band, lead vocalist with the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra and with her own group Rosalie & Friends. She presents songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, English and Ladino.Among other endeavers, Rosalie composed the music for and starred in the Joseph Papp Public Theater production of “Songs of Paradise” which received rave reviews and went on to tour in Europe. She also composed the music for “Prairie Lights” which was nominated for the prestigious Jeff (Emmy) Award in Chicago.Rosalie has appeared in leading roles in numerous musical theater productions, including “Carousel”,“Guys and Dolls”, “Godspell”, “Company”, “Side By Side by Sondheim”, “Shlemiel The First”, “Songs of Paradise” and many others. Rosalie founded and manages Blue Hill Recordings. She has produced several full length albums, some of which include her work as composer and vocalist.
Ariadne Greif, praised for her “elastic and round high notes” (classiqueinfo), made her major orchestral debut in April singing Witold Lutoslawski's Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the American Symphony Orchestra. In the 2009-2010 season, she starred as the title role in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges, the title role in Rusalka, Ivona in Jeff Meyer’s The Hunger Art, Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone, Sandmann in a concert version of Hänsel und Gretel, Phaedra in Christopher Park's new opera, Phaedra and Hippolytus, and the only female role, Madeline, in Debussy's unfinished opera La Chûte de la Maison Usher with the Opéra Français de New York. Other projects in the spring included a shared recital of Barber's complete vocal works at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center; a shared recital of unaccompanied music with the avant garde’s veteran champion, cellist Madeline Shapiro; a recital of Dadaist 20th century music; and a world premiere as Galileo in a piece by Erol Gurol for eight cellos, soprano, and choir to the heretical text of Galileo’s Starry Messenger.
An avid champion of new music, in the 2008-2009 season she made her Zankel Hall debut as part of the Upshaw-Golijov “Composing Song” Professional Training Workshop of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, premiering pieces written for her by Elena Langer; gave the world premiere of Aaron Dai's Con Furia with the Chelsea Symphony; made her Fisher Center debut singing Ainu Dreams, new orchestral songs by Greg Armbruster; won the Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition singing Witold Lutoslawski's Chantefleurs et Chantefables; and premiered The Door, by Ryan Chase, with the Mannes Orchestra. Ariadne founded Uncommon Temperament, a Manhattan-based baroque ensemble, with whom she has toured to Detroit, created a traveling production of Bach's Coffee Cantata, thrown a birthday party for Telemann, and made her Poisson Rouge debut, hailed as “…accomplished and winning…” by the NY Times. A California native, in her early career as a "boy soprano," she toured internationally with the Los Angeles Childrens Chorus, performed as "Sem" in Britten's Noye's Fludde, and, among other things, sang in the premiere of Tobias Picker's Fantastic Mr. Fox at the Los Angeles Opera under the baton of Peter Ash.
Musicologist Zinaida Kartasheva graduated from the Donetsk Musical College (Ukraine) in 1970, and received her Master's of Music degree from the Moscow State Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky in 1975, and graduate school there in 1981. In 1988 she defended her doctoral dissertation, on the History of the Composers' Music in Brasil and Art of Villa Lobos. Dr. Kartasheva began teaching first at the Saratov Conservatory in 1975-1979 and later, from 1979 on, at the Moscow State University of Art and Culture, department of the history and theory of music. Dr. Kartasheva's interest in jazz began in 1980; she teaches courses and gives lectures on the history of jazz all over the country and abroad, including prestigious Moscow educational institutions such as Gnessin Academy and Pedagogical University, as well as New England Conservatory and Boston University. Dr. Kartasheva was a Fulbright Fellow in 2000-2001; she lectures widely abroad (England, Poland, US), and has more than 100 published articles on the subject.
Д-р Карташова закончила муз. училище в Донецке в 1970 году и Московскую консерваторию по кафедре истории зарубежной музыки в 1975 г. Работала в Саратовской консерватории в 1975-79 годах. Закончила аспирантуру Московской консерватории по той же кафедре в 1981 г. Защитила кандидатскую диссертацию в 1988 г. (История композиторской музыки в Бразилии и творчество Вила-Лобоса).Работает в Московском гос. университете культуры и искусств с 1979 г. на кафедре теории и истории музыки. Начала серьезно заниматься историей джаза с 1980 г. Ведет самые разные курсы по истории и теории музыки, включая историю джаза. Приглашается для чтения лекций в разные вузы Москвы - Академию им. Гнесиных, Педагогический университет, Колледж эстрадной и джазовой музыки и др. Читает лекции, ведет концерты, участвует в радиопередачах, автор более 100 публикаций. Стипендиат Фулбрайта 2000\01 г. в Консерватории Новой Англии на джазовом отделении. Выступает на международных конференциях (США, Англия, Польша). Тема выступлений за рубежом - история советского джаза от 1920-х годов по нынешнее время.