Sarah Joyce Cooper & Ramsey Reyes in Concert
Schedule
Fri Oct 08 2021 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
Location
3219 Chelsea Street,Orlando,32803,US | Orlando, FL
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Join Winter Park native pianist & composer Ramsey Reyes and gifted soprano Sarah Cooper in Love and Loss: Exploring Life through LandscapeTickets are available by donation! We suggest $10 for attending in-person (40 available) and $5 to watch live online or a recording at a later date.
These donations allow us to make sure these talented musicians can be compensated as well as to cover the cost associated with putting on the concert (particularly tuning the piano!).
For centuries, humans have tried to make sense of their world by reflecting on the landscape around them. Whether when pining away in heartbreak or when rejoicing in the presence of God, humans have always found counterparts to their emotional extremes in nature. Join soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper and pianist and composer Ramsey Reyes for an exploration of life’s most powerful emotions and creation’s most poignant landscapes, set to music and poetry. Though penned in generations past, the melodies and stories are timeless, coming to life again through the perspective of these young interpreters humbly grateful to share a fresh take on these universal experiences in the here and now.
Featuring works by Turina, Debussy, Moses Hogan, and more
Check out some of their performances:
About the musicians:
Sarah Joyce Cooper has received praise for her "meltingly beautiful" (Opera News) singing and “alluring” (Don & Catharine Bryan Cultural Series) stage presence. Previous performances include La Charmeuse in Thaïs (Maryland Lyric Opera), Micaëla in Carmen (Prelude to Performance), Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro (Savannah Voice Festival), Violetta in La Traviata (New York Opera Studio), Mimì in La Bohème (Opera Theater of Cape Cod), and Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Boston Opera Collaborative). Ms. Cooper has also appeared as a soloist with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, the Maryland Lyric Opera Orchestra, and the Radcliffe Choral Society at Harvard University. This fall, Ms. Cooper looks forward to making her debut with Opera Western Reserve as Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and with MassOpera as Violetta in La Traviata. She also looks forward to returning to Boston Opera Collaborative to perform in its wildly popular winter Opera Bites series as Sabrina in the new opera In the House of Serenity by Laura Fuentes. In the spring, Ms. Cooper will make her debut with City Lyric Opera in New York City as Alice in a new, multimedia stage production of Elizabeth Raum’s The Garden of Alice. In addition to performing, Ms. Cooper serves as volunteer Executive Assistant for Help!ComeHome!, a 501c3 organization dedicated to meeting the needs of under-served communities throughout the US in Jesus’ Name.
A Winter Park native, Ramsey Reyes is an active opera coach and collaborative pianist. Fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian, Ramsey has rapidly gained traction in the vocal arts world after finishing graduate school in 2021. Ramsey is pianist for Opera Orlando, Opera NexGen, and the Vienna Summer Music Festival. This winter, Ramsey will be music director and pianist for the Opera Scenes performances of Music on Site in Kansas. He is mentored by David Lofton of the Academy of Vocal Arts, and performs with soprano Renée Richardson. While at Temple University, Ramsey accompanied voice students and coached the opera workshop classes. He was selected as a vocal collaborative fellow for the Miami Classical Music Festival in 2020, and has also participated in the Collaborative Piano Institute, Lee University International Piano Festival, Music Academy International Festival, and Curtis Young Artists Summer Program. Ramsey is also assistant director of the Neumann University Choir, a piano teacher in the Blutt College House Music Program of the University of Pennsylvania, a college advisor for Berton College, and the founder of the Virtú Institute, an academic camp for middle and high school students. He holds degrees from Temple University, where he studied Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano with Charles Abramovic and Lambert Orkis, as well as the University of Pennsylvania.
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Where is it happening?
3219 Chelsea Street,Orlando,32803,US, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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