Oberlin Percussion Group Offers Works By Cage, Xenakis and DeMey on Tuesday, March 21, 8 P.M., in Warner Concert Hall Story by Emily Manzo
	back to the main story		About the Performers/Speaker: photo by Ramon Owens Professor of percussion Michael Rosen is known as the marimbist who introduced the marimba music of Akira Miyoshi, Maki Ishii and Minoru Miki to the United States. An instrumental figure in the world of contemporary music, he has worked directly with composers Luciano Berio, John Cage, Savatore Martirano, Herbert Brun, George Crumb, Lukas Foss and Pierre Boulez. His impressive list of concert premieres includes the American premieres of Pleides and Idmen by Iannis Xenakis, as well as many solo marimba compositions and percussion ensemble compositions with his own award-winning Oberlin Percussion Group (OPG). Rosen received a bachelors degree in music education from Temple University and a masters degree in performance from University of Illinois. His principal teachers have included Charles Owen, Fred Hinger, Cloyd Duff and Jack MacKenzie. He has held the position of Principal Percussionist with the Milwaukee Symphony, and performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, Da Camera Music Society of Houston and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra. He has worked under the baton of Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Leonard Slatkin, Lukas Foss, Carlos Chavez and Pablo Casals and has recorded with the Bayerische Rundfunk, Opus One, Lumina, Albany and CRI labels. photo by Roger Mastroianni Professor of trombone, James DeSano, is currently the Principal Trombone with The Cleveland Orchestra and has concertized throughout the United States. He has recorded the music of composers Don Erb, Karel Husa and Vaclav Nelybel. DeSano received a bachelor of science degree in music education from Ithaca College and continued with graduate studies under Emory Remington at the Eastman School of Music. He has performed under the direction of Leopold Stokowksy, Erich Leinsdorf, Daniel Barenboim, Raphael Kubelik, George Solti, Riccardo Chailly, Claudio Abbaddio, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Lukas Foss, Bernard Rands, Luciano Berio and many other distinguished conductors. He has performed as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra and collaborated with Summit Brass and The Grand Teton Seminar. He has given master classes in the United States, Europe and Asia. DeSano has appeared on recordings with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christoph Dohnanyi, Kurt Sanderling, Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Knussen and Levi, for London, Erato and Telarc Records. photo by Ramon Owens Marlene Ralis Rosen, associate professor of singing, has appeared as soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Festival Orchestra, University of Evansville Oratorio Society, Canton Symphony and New Music Associates of Cleveland State University. She has given numerous premieres and performances throughout Midwest with the Plum Creek Chamber Ensemble, the Fischer Duo and the Ensemble Pierrot. Ensembles in Germany, Holland, Turku Music Festival (Finland) and Beijing (China). Ralis Rosen received her doctorate in music education from Temple University, and her masters of music from the University of Illinois. Rosen also studied at the Abbey de Royaumont in France. Her teachers have included Richard Miller, Helen Hodam, Margaret Hoswell, Dalton Baldwin, Hugues Cuenod, Yolanda Marculescu, Gerard Souzay and Paul Ulanovsky. Ralis Rosen has recorded for Bayerische Rundfunk, Nurnberg. photo by Ramon Owens Conservatory Librarian Deborah Campana has served as music public services librarian at Northwestern University, where she also held positions as acting head of the music library and assistant dean for undergraduate studies in the School of Music. Her current research interests focus on the life and work of John Cage. Campana is a founding member of New Music Chicago and also serves on the board of directors of the Music Library Association and is past editor of the MLA Index and Bibliography Series. A graduate of Ohio University, Campana received her master of music and Ph.D. in music theory from Northwestern University, and her A.M. in Library Science from the University of Chicago.
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