April in Paris: Songs with Chanteuse Francine Roussel & Patrick Poladian

FRANCINE ROUSSEL is a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA.

She has written and performed her own shows, and continued her acting career in Europe and America. She was seen in The Best of Chris Farley’s Saturday Night Live; Sex & the City with Mikhail Baryshnikov; and The Interpreter by Sidney Pollack, with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn.

She co-wrote La Vie en Rose, about Piaf and Montand; and has performed cabaret in New York as a founding member of The Trio Franco Fun, and has been performing with The New York Philharmonic, under the direction of Kurt Masur, in Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher, in New York, Berlin, and Leipzig.

She was movement director for Nicholas Hytner’s film, The Crucible, and mask coach on The Green Bird, directed by Julie Taymor, at The Victory Theatre. She also directed The Square, by Marguerite Duras at UBU Repertory Theatre in NYC.

She recently performed with Patrick Poladian at The Logan Inn in New Hope, PA.

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PATRICK POLADIAN pianist, composer, educator – was born Paris, France where he studied music at the Leyat Institute in Paris. He began performing in various musical settings as well as the Jules Verne Restaurant on top of the Eiffel Tower and on RadioFrance with his quintet.

After moving to New York in the eighties, he was musical director of the show "Not Just Another Pretty Face" and participated in a Duke Ellington memorial concert, led by Mercer Ellington. He has also performed with notables such as Reggie Workman, Arthur Blythe, Art Farmer, Wayne Dockery, Leon Thomas, Roy Campbell and the late Beaver Harris and Clarence Sharp. While in New York, he was active in the Music Under New York (MUNY) program; led his trio at various venues such as the Birdland, Lenox Lounge and Londell’s, St. Peters Jazz Vespers, among others.

He moved to Pennsylvania in 2005 where he continued his performances for: the NAACP; YMCA; Deer Head Inn; Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce; St. Luke’s Hospital, as well as various festivals, venues, and events in the LehighValley.

He has four recordings as a leader ("The Paris-Manhattan Trio," "The Chabak Trio" [co-leader], “Comfort Me Blue,” “Fun In The Alley” with the NEEMA Quintet) and two solo albums (“Expressions” [original compositions] and “Moods” [based on improvisation of traditional hymns).

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