Musica Sierra's Digital Stage Series Ep 1

Описание: The Digital Stage Series is a monthly video series, created by Lindsay McIntosh of Musica Sierra, that brings world-class artists to the digital stage of Sierra Plumas County Joint Unified. During this unprecedented time, the traditional assembly or field trip to the symphony isn’t an option for us. To ensure that we continually expose and inspire our children during this time, we feature incredibly talented musicians that are leading artists in their field.

Episode 1
Majel Connery, Vocalist & Composer
Sarah Stone, Cello & Gambist
Laura Rubenstein-Salzedo, Barouqe & Modern Violin

About Musica Sierra
Musica Sierra enriches the cultural experience of Sierra County with world-class, year-round performances and music education, accessible and affordable for all.

Majel Connery
Majel Connery is a vocalist, composer, and former musicologist, and makes electro-art-dream-pop with repressed classical influences. She wrote songs about porn, periods, and sad fish for five episodes of Radiolab’s “Gonads” series, which was released as a digital album on Bandcamp in 2019. Her compositions have been called “thoroughly Schubertian” by the Wall Street Journal and her voice “crystalline” by the Chicago Reader. The house concerts tour of her debut EP, Anything Chartreuse, called “dreamy art pop with the sensitivity and nuance of classical music” (Second Inversion) is on hold until the world un-breaks. After moving to the Bay Area to take an Assistant Professorship in Musicology at the University of California Berkeley, Majel pivoted from full-time academia in 2015 to pursue a career as a musician. Since then, as Mohr Visiting Artist at Stanford (2017-18), she commissioned, produced and performed Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw’s monodrama “Contriving the Chimes,” written for her and the St. Lawrence String Quartet, and staged by opera director Christopher Alden. In 2016, as Mellon Visiting Artist at Wellesley, she commissioned and performed Aeolus, a throat-singing rock opera by Rome- and Berlin Prize-winning composer and UC Berkeley colleague Ken Ueno. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and an A.B. from Princeton University. Majel is bi-coastal, based in Far Rockaway, Queens for work and Berkeley, CA for love. www.majelconnery.com

Sarah Stone
A curiosity in the cultural background behind the music she plays led Sarah Stone to baroque cello and viola da gamba. This season, Sarah performs around the country with Seraphic Fire, Washington National Cathedral, House of Time, Repast Baroque, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and New York Baroque Incorporated. She returns to Montreal’s Bourgie Concert Hall with Trinity Wall Street to perform Bach Cantatas, and bringing early music into the classroom, she will play in over 60 New York City and Connecticut public schools this year through the outreach program of The American Classical Orchestra. Recent seasons have included performances of Handel's Radamisto with Opera Lafayette and Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto on tour with Apollo's Fire. In her home-base of Long Island City, Queens, she curates a free monthly series, Communitea Chamber Music. Sarah holds a Masters in Historical Performance from the Juilliard School, a Masters from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor of Music from Rice University. www.sarahabigaelstone.com

Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo
Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo performs regularly on period and modern instruments in the US, Europe, New Zealand, and Asia. She has appeared as soloist with Juilliard415 and New York Baroque Inc. and has performed as violinist and violist under well-known conductors such as Nicholas McGegan, Masaaki Suzuki, William Christie, Richard Egarr, Jordi Savall, Monica Huggett, Mark Morris, Manfredo Kraemer, and Jeffrey Thomas. Mrs. Rubinstein-Salzedo's violin concerto performance in New Zealand was praised by the Otago Times for its “excellent pace and its exciting and forward motion”.Mrs. Rubinstein-Salzedo has performed with Portland Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium San Diego, Juilliard415, New York Baroque Inc, Clarion Music Society, Sacramento Baroque Soloists, Black Letter Baroque, Lyra Baroque Orchestra (under Jacques Ogg), San Jose Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco Bach Choir, UC Berkeley Chorus, and many more. Her summer festival appearances include Lake Tahoe Music Festival (as concertmaster), American Bach Soloists Festival, Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Berkeley Festival, and Exhibition, and the Bear Valley Music Festival. A dedicated teacher, Mrs. Rubinstein-Salzedo teaches privately in Walnut Creek and regularly coaches the Sacramento Youth Symphony Summer Workshop. Mrs. Rubinstein-Salzedo studied with Elizabeth Blumenstock and at the Juilliard School with Monica Huggett and Cynthia Roberts. She plays a 1690 Caspar Borbon violin, made in Brussels. When not making music, Laura enjoys baking, photography, knitting, and playing with her cat, Sherbert. www.rubinsalz.com