Formed at the prestigious Oberlin Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Professor Karen Ritcher and Juilliard professor Darett Atkins, The Red Rock String Quartet blends top-tier classical training with an enthusiasm for multi-genre and contemporary music. The quartet's musicians have worked with many of today’s most respected classical artists, including the Cavani String Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma, the Ying Quartet, the Jasper Quartet, and the famed Takacas Quartet, but Red Rock String’s artistry extends beyond classical music, performing alongside Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson and many more of today's recognized bands — our musicians have, on numerous occasions, performed cross-over style at their home base, Denver’s Red Rocks Amphitheater.
Michele Battiste is the author of Waiting for the Wreck to Burn (Trio House, 2019), Uprising ( Black Lawrence, 2014), and Ink for an Odd Cartography ( Black Lawrence, 2009). She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Left: Letters to Strangers (Grey Book, 2014). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, Memorious, and Women's Studies Quarterly, among others.
Michele has taught poetry workshops for Wichita State University, the Prison Arts Program in Hutchinson, KS, Gotham Writers' Workshops, and Teen Ink. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, she has received grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, AWP, the Center for the American West, the Jerome Foundation, and the NY State Senate. She lives in Colorado where she works for The Nature Conservancy, raising money to save the planet.
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Synesthesia presents eclectic chamber music from Northern Colorado. Experience a ‘Union of Senses’ with this unique ensemble.
Synesthesia will be performing an afternoon of Cinema themed music including Over the Rainbow (50 First Dates), Por Una Cabeza (Scent of a Woman), It Had To Be You (When Harry Met Sally), Lakme Flower Duet (Tomb Raider and True Romance) and more.
Featuring: Copper Ferreira, clarinet; Cbj Lutsch, flute; Becky Kutz Osterberg, cello.
This performance is dedicated to the memory of Kathleen Winder 1931-2024.
Bryan Roth is a writer, poet, literary editor, manuscript consultant, and teacher. His prose has been published internationally; his poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, The Flying Island, Fringe, Paradigm, Southern Indiana Review, and other publications. He has three chapbooks forthcoming in 2024: What You're Up Against, and Triptych. He is also working on a full-length poetry collection, Building the Day, as well as a novel.
Mr. Roth has won awards for his poetry, his editing, and his writing, including a journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of a new poetry press, Carpe Diem! Press, which will begin publishing poetry chapbooks in 2024.
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