In Performance: The LAGCC Music Faculty Concert Series
Event Description
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center presents:
In Performance: The LAGCC Music Faculty Concert Series
Featuring Lisa DeSpain & Marcel Rominger
Join us at LPAC’s Mainstage Theater for a special concert featuring talented pianists from LaGuardia Community College’s Music Performance and Music Recording Technology programs. Celebrate their artistry and the arrival of a new Steinway piano in an evening of live music. Featuring Lisa DeSpain & Marcel Rominger.
BIOS:
Marcel Rominger is an acclaimed pianist whose performances have been praised by the BBC for their polish, thoughtfulness, and character. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in January 2009, earning recognition from the New
York Concert Review for his poise and elegance. An award-winning artist, Rominger has received numerous honors, including the
Crane Concerto Competition, the Rose L. Greenblatt Award in
Piano, and the CUNY Chancellor’s Fellowship.
As both a soloist and collaborative pianist, he has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and South America, appearing with orchestras and in a variety of concert and theatrical productions. A passionate advocate for new music, he has also participated in the New York City Electroacoustic Festival.
Rominger holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from The Graduate Center, CUNY. In addition to his performing career, he is an educator, scholar, and masterclass presenter, and is the founder of Sunnyside Piano Studio LLC in Queens, New York. Professor Rominger teaches Music Theory, Musicianship, Piano, and
Introduction to Music at LaGuardia Community College.
Event Date:
Thurs Nov. 12th at 7pm
Location:
Mainstage Theater
Ticket Price:
FREE w/ RSVP
Lisa DeSpain is an award-winning jazz pianist and composer whose work spans opera, orchestral music, chamber music, and jazz. She is the recipient of an OPERA America Discovery Grant and an NEA Challenge America Award for her
opera That Hellbound Train, based on a story by Robert Bloch. Her other operatic works include Staggerwing, commissioned by Zepick Modern Opera, Song of the Nightingale, Men I’m Not Married To, and No Ladies in the Lady’s Book.
Her compositions have received numerous honors, including an ASCAP Commission honoring the Duke Ellington Centennial for her big band work Dreaming in the Land of Blue Oz and a Barlow Endowment Award for Symphonic Jazz Suite for Piano. She studied jazz piano with Ellis Marsalis in New Orleans and Brazilian pianist Eliane Elias at Manhattan School of Music. DeSpain is a Professor
of Music at LaGuardia Community College, where she teaches and mentors the next generation of musicians.