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The Art of French Music with Urban Troubadour

Presented by ORMACO

Ohio Regional Music Arts and Cultural Outreach (ORMACO) closes its 2021 World Tour of Music residency and culminating concert with Urban Troubadour, a collective of Northeast Ohio’s finest musicians.

This concert is free and open to the public. Click here to reserve your seat.

Founder and flutist Jane Berkner, named Outstanding Artist in Music in the 2019 Akron Arts Alive Awards, will be featured along with Cleveland and Akron orchestral musicians. The concert will include Claude Debussy’s elegant Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp, as well as his jazzy Sonata for Cello. Take a dive into high culture with French composers and slides of French art. Students from Firestone High School will participate in the concert with Choral Director Megan Meyer.  Ohio Regional Music Arts and Cultural Outreach (ORMACO) World Tour of Music with Urban Troubadour, a collective of Northeast Ohio’s finest musicians.

About the Musicians
Amber Rogers has performed across the United States. Amber is an avid chamber musician, advocate of modern music, music education, and community involvement in classical music,

Amber’s interest lies primarily in performing chamber music, working with composers to premiere their work, and getting the community involved in classical and new music. She has had the opportunity to work with and premiere works by many composers including; Carson Cooman, Hannah Lash, Alan Tormey, David Gerard Matthews, Chris Massa, Ash Madni, and Ryan Stewart.

Also experienced as an administrator, Amber has produced and directed chamber and new music productions, and community and education outreach programs and performances in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin. She has also sat as a member on many Pennsylvania nonprofit arts organization boards. Amber was a founding member of Eclectic Laboratory Chamber Orchestra and a founding member and director of Black Orchid String Trio and is intimately familiar with the operations and tribulations of grassroots arts nonprofits.

In addition to her small ensemble endeavors, Amber is also the Principal Violist of the Butler Symphony Orchestra and freelances with Erie Chamber Orchestra, Music on The Edge, OvreArts, Resonance Works, Pittsburgh Opera Theatre, Erie Philharmonic and many other ensembles.

Amber’s primary instructors have been Toby Appel, John Graham and Warren Friesen. In masterclasses and festivals, she has had the opportunity to study with Pinchas Zukerman, Misha Amory, Jorja Fleezanis, Peter Slowik, Vartan Manoogian, Zvi Zeitlin, Patricia McCarty and Thomas Turner.

Amber has studied chamber music with Margo Garrett, members of the Ying Quartet and Brentano Quartet, the American Quartet, Cavani Quartet and Borromeo Quartet. In masterclasses she has been coached by the Takas Quartet and Cuarteto Latinoamericano. She has also studied period performance practice with Christel Thielmann and Paul O’Dette.

Derek Snyder has appeared as soloist with orchestras in both the United States and Europe, and as a chamber musician has collaborated with members of some of the country’s most exciting ensembles, including the Cavani and Cleveland String Quartets, and the Cleveland, Detroit, Montreal and Baltimore Symphonies. In addition to being a founder and cellist in the nuevo tango band the Oblivion Project, he is a member of DadBand, performs often with the Blue Water Chamber Orchestra and is a board member of the Cleveland Cello Society.

His arrangements of the music of Graham Nash and Bootsy Collins have been performed by the Contemporary Youth Orchestra with the composers. He has created numerous transcriptions and arrangements for cello ensembles, focusing primarily on the music of Dave Brubeck and Astor Piazzolla. His arrangements of music by Brubeck can be heard on the Naxos label as performed by the Yale Cellos and are published by Cellocelli Music. (Derek is also the founder of Cellocelli Music, www.cellocelli.com, a source for unique and contemporary sheet music and recordings for string players).

Pre-concert Introductory Outreach Programs will take place at Green, Springfield-Lakemore, Fairlawn-Bath, and Nordonia Hills branch libraries during the week.

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