New Illinois State University faculty member Adriana La Rosa Ransom,
a cellist and director of ISU's String Project, and popular faculty
guitarist Angelo Favis, will join the Illinois State University Chamber
Orchestra in a concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in the Center for the
Performing Arts Concert Hall.
Admission is $6 for the general public, $5 for faculty-staff and $4 for students and senior citizens. Tickets are available at the CPA box office from noon to 5 p.m. weekdays or by calling (309) 438-2535.
La Rosa Ransom will perform Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations for Cello and Favis will perform Joaquin Rodrigo's famous Concierto de Aranjuez. The orchestra, conducted by Glenn Block, director of Orchestras, will close with Bach's Suite No. 3 for Orchestra.
LaRosa Ransom is a graduate of the University of Missouri and earned her master's and doctorate at the University of Minnesota . As a soloist, she has won numerous awards including top prizes at the WAMSO Young Artist Competition, the Naftzger Young Artist Competition, the Schubert Club Young Artist Competition and the Thursday Musical Society Competition. She has performed in the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago as well as with many professional orchestras and ensembles including the Minnesota Opera Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the European Musical Festival Orchestra and New Ear Contemporary Ensemble.
Prior to her Illinois State appointment, La Rosa Ransom served on the faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Cloud State University and the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis.
Favis is a doctoral graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and a prizewinner in many competitions. He has been an active performer of solo and chamber music in the U.S. and abroad, and among his career highlights were being featured at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center with the Little Orchestra Society of New York. He was one of six performers chosen to play in a special master class taught by acclaimed British guitarist Julian Bream in New York.
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