DUO CONCERT — Roseminna Watson (violin) & Melody Fader (piano)

Mozart Sonata for violin and piano, KV 454

Messiaen Theme & Variations for violin and piano

Brahms Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano

*Followed by a petite reception of delectables and conversation*

Violinist, singer, composer and multimedia artist Roseminna Watson is fascinated by the human body as a vehicle that can carry us closer to the divine. Her artistry across mediums is imbued with a haunting immediacy and poignant nostalgia.

Roseminna is a member of the Providence-based new music collective Verdant Vibes and founder of the Pandemic Polyphony project —an ever-expanding platform for collaborative connection between creators of all kinds across the boundaries of physical distance and isolation (). She is the co-founder and curator of the Cape Cod concert series MUSIC IN THE STUDIO in collaboration with painter Cammie Watson and half of Humming Owl — a duo with her singer/songwriter/sitarist husband, Pablo Escalante.

Roseminna holds a B.A in Visual Art from Yale University, an M.M. in Violin Performance from Stony Brook University, and an A.D. in Chamber Music from San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is the former first violinist of the prize-winning Aiana String Quartet. Ms. Watson has recently performed the world premieres of her most recently-completed original works — Divinatum Dolorem for piano,violin and voice, and Rooms of the Body for string quartet. You can find her solo album, Limbic Hymnal (2017) at .

Melody Fader enjoys a busy career as a soloist, chamber musician, and vocal / dance accompanist. She has performed in such iconic New York venues as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and internationally in Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Guatemala, Chile, Canada and Italy.

Ms. Fader is the founder, artistic director, and pianist for the Melody and Company Chamber Series, which recently won grants from both the Queens Council on the Arts and the Puffin Foundation. Her first commercial album, Music of Frederic Chopin, was released in February 2012 on Centaur Records and she is currently working on her second album. For two seasons Ms. Fader served as company pianist and soloist for Dance Theatre of Harlem, touring extensively with the company.

She is the resident pianist with New Chamber Ballet for their annual performance cycle at New York’s City Center, and has also performed with Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Buglisi Dance Theater and the New York Theater Ballet and Stars of American Ballet. Ms. Fader was a prize winner at both the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition and the Aspen Concerto Competition, leading to solo and chamber music performances throughout the U.S. She earned her Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, and Master of Music in Collaborative Piano at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Margo Garrett.