The founding member of Brass Roots Trio, pianist and arranger Rosetta Senkus Bacon has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia with concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Taipei County Cultural Center in Taiwan, St. Moritz Cultural Center in Switzerland, and Kaunus Philharmonic Hall in Lithuania. A frequent guest at international festivals, Rosetta has served on faculties and performed at The International Summer Chamber Music Festival in Taiwan and The International School of Performing Arts in Bucks County, PA where she accompanied Master Classes of Metropolitan Opera stars Sherrill Milnes and Gilda Cruz-Roma. She concertized with Metropolitan Opera soprano Judith Raskin and the internationally acclaimed Lithuanian clarinetist Algirdas Budrys. In a lighter vein she was one of the duo-pianists in “Side By Side By Sondheim” starring Arlene Francis and Hermione Gingold. A native of West Virginia, Rosetta graduated from West Virginia University and received a Masters Degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. She was the recipient of the “Outstanding Musician Award” from the West Virginia Arts & Humanities Commission.
Equally at home with both classical and jazz genres, Nathan Warner resides in Manhattan where he is in demand as a classical, orchestral, commercial, big band and jazz performer. He has performed with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, New York Pops Orchestra and with an array of artists including Clay Aiken, Alejandro Sanz, Slide Hampton, Jon Faddis, Lou Marini, Patti LuPone, The Four Tops, Kurt Masur, The Temptations, Frederick Fennell, Olivia Newton-John, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and Allen Vizzutti. He recorded the soundtrack of the acclaimed PBS documentary “Building Ellis Island.” An extremely versatile artist, Nathan is a founding member of the Sugartone Brass Band, New York City’s premier New Orleans-style second line band. As a champion of music education for inner city youth, Nathan taught at St. Mark the Evangelist School in Harlem and has worked with the Midori and Friends Foundation. He currently is on the faculties of the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival, New York Summer Music Festival, the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Division and the Geneva School of Manhattan. A native of South Bend, IN, Nathan was the recipient of the prestigious Governor’s Scholarship at the Interlochen Arts Festival. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz Studies at the Indiana University School of Music, a Masters Degree in Classical Trumpet Performance at the Manhattan School of Music and is currently a doctoral student at Stony Brook University in NY. Nathan is an endorsed Bach Trumpet artist.
Recipient of numerous awards for her performance on French Horn, Kyra Sims is equally at home on the concert stage as she is in a jazz club – whether it be playing the horn or singing with her rich mezzo voice. She was principal horn of the Ars Viva Chamber Orchestra in Lawrence, KS, and she also performed with the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra. Since being in NY Kyra has performed with Camerata NY and the Garden State Opera Orchestra. A regular at festivals in the US and in Europe, she performed the Mozart 2nd Horn concerto at Sewanee Music Festival in TN. Chamber music credits include performances with Peter Serkin on the Crawford Concert Series in Montclair, NJ, with the Turtle Island String Quartet at the Lied Center of Kansas, and performances at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy and La Filana in Loro Ciuffenna, Italy. A native of Memphis, TN, Kyra received a Bachelor’s Degree in Performance from the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts and is currently a candidate for the Master of Music degree at the Manhattan School of Music in New York.
