Sunday Feb 2 * 5pm sharp * $10 * TICKETS
Breathing In Nature: Flute and Multimedia Concert at Rhizome - Carrie Rose, flute, & Ron Toole, film
Flute and water converse, breathy timbres envelop pure tones, flute inhabits the world of grasshoppers, a film slowly drinks in the natural world. This is a multimedia solo flute concert that includes live flute performance, a film by Ron Toole, recorded nature sounds, and electronic manipulation of sound.
Program:
High Flyer by Robert Erickson
This Time by Carrie Rose (music) and Ron Toole (film)
Waterweave for flute and recorded water sounds by Carrie Rose
NoaNoa for flute and electronics by Kaija Saariaho
Music for Sarah by John Fonville
Suvisoitto (Summer Sounds) for Flute (live) and Grasshoppers (recorded sound) by Usko Merilainen
The nature of the music that Rose plays is experimental, original, and it pushes boundaries. Audience
comments after concerts sum up the general sense of her work:
• “At first I wasn’t sure if I could sit through a whole concert of this music. Now I’m not sure that I
can attend a normal concert again.”
• “She seems like such a nice person to be playing such scary music.”
Carrie Rose is a flutist, composer, and educator in the Washington, DC area. Diverse musical pursuits include freelancing with regional orchestras, grooving for folk dances, and wailing out avant-garde chamber music. She produces the Origins Concert Series (a hub for adventurous music-seekers), has received numerous grants for her performing and composing from the State of Maryland and Montgomery County, and in DC’s City Paper, she was named a “favorite local composer”. Rose earned Master and Bachelor of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Joshua Smith, principal flutist of the Cleveland Orchestra. She has been teaching for over 20 years, and has a thriving private flute studio in Takoma Park, Maryland. www.rosearts.org