Acclaimed Soprano to Give Free Concerts in Lawrence

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Internationally acclaimed soprano Rosa Lamoreaux will perform at The Lawrenceville School on Saturday, March 24, at 7 p.m. and on Sunday, March 25 at 5:15 p.m. (a choral vespers performance).

The concerts will take place in the School's Edith Memorial Chapel, 2500 Main St. (Route 206), and are open to the general public, free of charge. These occasions are made possible by the Woods Endowed Fund for Chapel Music.

Lamoreaux has an international career of broad scope, including solo recitals, chamber music, opera, and orchestral performances at distinguished concert venues and art museums around the world.

She has been soloist for such prominent conductors as Robert Shaw, Bruno Weil, Sir David Willcocks, Greg Funfgeld, J. Reilly Lewis, and Norman Scribner, and her orchestral credits include the Atlanta, Dallas, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras, the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, the Washington Philharmonic, the Washington Chamber Orchestra, and the Northwest Chamber Orchestra. Highly praised as a Bach soloist, Lamoreaux is featured regularly at the Bethlehem and Carmel Bach Festivals, and has performed at Bach festivals in Leipzig, Berlin, and Halle, Germany.

A recent career highlight was her performance at the internationally-broadcast day-long concert commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, held at New York City's Trinity Church in collaboration with the Bethlehem Bach Choir and other musicians from New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, and Pennsylvania.

Her honors include winning the Handel Aria Competition at the Aspen Music Festival, selection as a finalist in the Oratorio Society Competition of New York, and seven Washington Area Music Association awards as Washington's Best Classical Vocalist.

In addition to her performance career, Lamoreaux teaches both master classes and private students at universities across the United States and has presented voice classes for the Smithsonian Institution.

A notable feature of Lamoreaux's professional activity is her role as Artistic Director of the National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble in Washington, D.C., designing and performing small ensemble concerts in musical illumination of specific Gallery exhibits.

Lamoreaux's music degrees include Associate of the Royal College of Music, London, and Mster of Music, University of Redlands, Calif.