“Reflections of Peace” with the Brass Roots Trio, St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, September 14, 2006, 7:00 p.m.

On Thursday, September 14, 2006, 7:00 p.m., St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, Murfreesboro, will present “Reflections of Peace,” a Spirit-filled concert of music and word with the Brass Roots Trio.

St. Mark’s United Methodist Church is located at 1267 N. Rutherford Boulevard, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. For information about the concert and how to get to St. Mark’s UMC phone 615-893-3455.

The Brass Roots Trio
Pianist Rosetta Senkus Bacon, trumpeter Travis Heath, and French horn player/tenor Douglas Lundeen have brought together their musical experiences “to make a joyful noise unto the Lord.” They honor God with their music in a ministry that reaches beyond musical style or a certain religion to inspire and touch the hearts of the listeners.

The Brass Roots Trio has created a series of “Jazz Vespers” programs that have moved audiences around the world. A cross between concert and service, these uplifting and inspirational programs combine jazz arrangements of hymns and spirituals sprinkled with a few classical and baroque works along with readings from scripture and poetry.

With performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, the Crystal Cathedral in California, Bath Abbey, Bristol Cathedral and Lincoln Cathedral in England, Oxford University, Cultural Centers of Taipei, St. Moritz and Kaunus, Banff Center in Canada, the Kennedy Center, Avery Fisher Hall, with major symphony orchestras, and on Broadway, members of the BRASS ROOTS TRIO have dazzled audiences around the globe.

Pianist Rosetta Senkus Bacon has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia with concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, 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 Masters Degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

Since winning first prize in the International Trumpet Guild solo competition in 1995, Travis Heath has elicited rave reviews on performances from the concert stage and at jazz venues. His dazzling playing of Baroque masterpieces on the piccolo trumpet and the mellow sounds of his jazz improvisations has won him acclaim from audiences young and old. Travis played for the dedication of the PNC Symphony Hall in Fukui, Japan, has been a recitalist at the Banff Centre in Banff, Canada, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, NJ PAC, B.B. King’s, and the Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork, Ireland. He was a member of the brass ensembles Tapestry Brass and Crescendo and has toured and recorded with the contemporary ensemble TRUTH and the American Rhapsody Orchestra. In addition, he has performed with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Ray Charles, Arturo Sandoval, and the Moody Blues. A native of Vero Beach, FL, Travis holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University.

Alongside his studies on the French horn, Douglas Lundeen began his musical training in opera in Manhattan, coaching with Metropolitan Opera assistant conductor Frank Basilice. It was maestro Basilice, whose father had been principal horn of the Met orchestra under Toscanini, who encouraged Doug to pursue a horn-playing career while he waited for his voice to mature. An engagement as Principal Horn with the Orquesta Naçional de Costa Rica began what has turned into a 35-year career as a hornist. Equally at home as a soloist, chamber player and orchestral musician on the modern horn, Doug is also one of the leading players in North America on the valveless natural horn. Since winning first prize for solo natural horn in the 1987 American Horn Competition, he has played principal horn in period instrument orchestras in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Montréal, Boston, and Washington, D.C., and has recordings on the Sony, Koch, Titanic, Hyperion, and Musical Heritage Society Labels. On the modern horn, Doug has played principal horn with orchestras in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, in Philadelphia with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, on Broadway with “Jekyll and Hyde” and “Aida,” and he is currently Principal Horn of the Princeton Symphony. In addition he has performed at the Mostly Mozart Festival in NY, the Gustav Mahler Festival in Paris, The Montreal Bach Festival, Thomaskirche in Leipzig, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and the Palao de la Musica in Valencia, Spain. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Cincinnati Conservatory and is Associate Professor of Horn at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.