Rosi Hertlein [email protected] Violin  Voice  Composition

Professional Experience 2003-2010 Teaching Artist (educator and performer) for “Music Outreach” in New York City’s Public Schools

1999-2010 Teacher for violin and vocals at Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute, Staten Island, NY

2001-2008 Production Assistant to composer Baikida Carroll for several theater productions including The Oedipus Plays, Uncle Vanya and the 2008 A Seagull in the Hamptons by Emily Mann

2000-2008 Teacher for violin at Turtle Bay Music School, New York, NY

2008 Teaching Artist (choral instructions) at PS. 21 Staten Island, for Sundog Theatre NY; Teaching Artist for sculpture, drawing and collage at Trinity Lutheran School, Staten Island, NY 2003 Teacher for violin at Public School 248, District 30 in Elmhurst, Queens and at Community School 234, District 12 in Tremont, Bronx 2003 Teacher for violin at Public School 248, District 30 in Elmhurst, Queens and at Community School 234, District 12 in Tremont, Bronx 1999-2002 Data Processor for the German academic Exchange Service DAAD, NY 1999-2001 Clerical assistant for Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project 1997-1999 Actress Judith Malina's Personal assistant, archivist and coordinator of USA and European events 1995-1997 Teacher for vocals, choir and music theory at “Vocaline -the School for Popular Music”, Hamburg, Germany 1993-1995 Recording Producer the for the Big Band of radio NDR, Hamburg, Germany 1989-1992 Technical assistance for the nationwide news magazine “Tagesschau” at TV station NDR, Hamburg, Germany

Musical Accomplishments (selections) 2009 3 hour feature on WKCR, music and interview 2009 Trinidad Concert Tour with Perry Robinson 2008 Brazilian Concert Tour with and Solo concerts in Hamburg, Germany and Kampo Gallery, New York City 2007 Received a “Meet the Composer Collaboration” grant for composing and performances with the “Wendy Osserman Dance Company” at the “Chelsea Art Museum” and the “Duke” Theatre in Manhattan, NY Violinist for the Wagner College production of Grand Hotel , Staten Island, NY 1999-2007 Vocalist in ’s African-American Legacy Project, concerts in New York, Amherst, MA and Montclair, NJ 2006 Violinist for the Wagner College production of Into the Woods , Staten Island, NY 2005 Violinist for the Wagner College production of Chess , Staten Island, NY Performed at “High Zero” festival for experimental improvised music in Baltimore, MD Concerts with pianist David Arner and others at “Deep Listening Space” in Kingston, NY 2003-2006 Concerts with pianist Klaus Treuheit in Erlangen, Germany 1999-2005 Concerts with the Pauline Oliveros’ “New Circle Five”, culminating with the 2003 CD release of Dreaming Wide Awake, Deep Listening Records, New York 2004 Received a “Meet the Composer” grant for music, performed in the “New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival” with Dancer Nuria Divi. Violinist for the Wagner College production of Jekyll and Hyde in Staten Island, NY 1998-2004 Violinist, vocalist in ensembles led by Joe McPhee, concerts in New York and abroad, featured at the “Vision Festival” in 2004 2002 Violinist and vocalist in concerts with and the “Sound Vision Orchestra”, NY Violinist with the “Jump Arts Orchestra”, conducted by Butch Morris, NY 2000-2002 Vocalist in concerts with the “Riverside Opera Company”, New York 2000 Founder, leader and composer of the “Improvising Chamber Ensemble, (ICE)”, concerts in New York; recorded CD in 2001: Two Letters I’ll Keep 1999-2002 Violinist, vocalist, composer and actress in performances with the theatre group "DADAnewyork" Vocalist with the "Riverside Inspirational Choir", Nedra Olds-Neal, Director Violinist with the "Richmond County Orchestra", Alan Aurelia, Director 1999 Received the "Music OMI" International residency grant for musicians and composers at Ledig House in Omi, NY 1995-1998 Concerts in New York with the "Rosie Hertlein Trio" featuring Howard Johnson and Warren Smith 1996-1997 Vocalist, violinist, ukulele and actress in the music dance theatre production Legal Fiction by Jan Pusch and Kampnagel Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany 1997 Vocalist, violinist with the “XX Strings” quartet led by Ursel Schlicht, concerts in New York and at “Dokumenta X”, Kassel, Germany 1996 Performed with David Murray’s Big Band in New York Vocalist, actress in Passagiere, a theatre production in Hamburg, Germany 1993-2005 European concerts: Solo project, violin, vocals and percussion

1993 Violinist in ensemble led by composer Vinco Globocar, Hamburg, Germany Vocalist in premiere of Mache Dich Auf Op.5 for organ and soprano by Heinrich Hartl, Hamburg, Germany 1992 Germany tour in the theatre production Rennende Sirenen: vocalist, actress

Education and Musical Training 1989 Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, “Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik, HWP”, Hamburg, Germany

2000-2003 Vocal lessons with Vera Satulsky, New York 1995-1996 Violin lessons with John Blake, New York 1995 Vocal lessons with Hugh Murphy, New York 1994 Improvisation Workshop with Melcolm Goldstein, concerts in Hamburg, Germany 1993 Graphic Notation Workshop of the music of Cornelius Cardew with Keith Row, Hamburg, Germany 1990-1995 Vocal lessons with Prof. Ingrid Kremling, Hamburg, Germany 1986-1990 Vocal lessons with Ela Sammelo, Hamburg, Germany 1991 Music-sociological research in Ghana, West Africa 1983-1992 Music-sociological research at University Hamburg, Germany 1982-1983 Violin lessons with Ference Babary, Nuremberg, Germany 1978-1982 Studies in violin, piano and music theory at the “Meistersinger Konservatorium”, Nuremberg, Germany 1978 Graduated from High School for Graphic and Design, Nuremberg, Germany

2 Selected Recordings 2010 Near to the Wild Heart Ivo Perelman trio: Ivo Perelman, Dominic Duval, and Rosi Hertlein; Not Two Records # 833

2009 Only Moment "Rozanna Levine & Chakra Tuning" www.erjn.it/mus/whitecage.htm

2008 Don't Abandon Your Baby, "Stanley Schumacher and the Music Now Ensemble", Stanley Schumacher, Evan Lipson, Rosi Hertlein http://www.cdbaby.com/

2007 Red Morocco, Joe Giardullo "Open Ensemble", with 14 musicians http://www.roguart.com/

2005 Introspection, Ivo Perelman quartet: Ivo Perelman, Dominic Duval, Newman T. Baker and Rosi Hertlein www.leorecords.com LR 455

2003 Dreaming Wide Awake, Pauline Oliveros’ “New Circle Five": Pauline Oliveros, Kristin Norderval, Monique Buzzarte, Susi Ibarra and Rosi Hertlein Deep Listening Records www.deeplistening.org/newcirclefive, e-mail: [email protected]

1999 Two Letters I’ll Keep, Rosi Hertlein’s "Improvising Chamber Ensemble" (ICE): Howard Johnson, Dave Taylor, Vincent Chancey, , Charlie Burnham, Rosi Hertlein CIMP records #244 www.cadencebuilding.com e-mail: @cadencebuilding.com

1998 Rapture, "Trio X": Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen and special guest Rosi Hertlein #1106 www.cadencebuilding.com e-mail: [email protected]

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