Violin and Mandolin Musings

<b>Program</b>: TBD
Bluegrass and baroque style improvisation - Visit http://www.arosefiddle.com/a-rose-and-t-scroggins for samples.

<b>Location Details</b>:
Please bring finger food to share (i.e. does not require utensils & prep)
• Easily walkable from San Carlos CalTrain, plenty of parking
• Have pets if anyone is allergic
• No shoes indoors

<b>Order of events</b>:
• Meet/greet, nom nom nom ~30min
• Chamber music w/intermission
• Q&A and/or discussions ~30min

<b>Post-event activity</b>:
• Planning a folk music "jam" - bring your instruments!

<b>Musicians' Bio</b>:
Violinist, composer and improviser, Alisa Rose, www.arosefiddle.com, is a modern musician with roots in classical music as well as American traditional music. Alisa Rose has performed with diverse artists including Grammy nominated Quartet San Francisco, 2008 Rockygrass winners 49 Special, and the Picasso Quartet. Currently she is a member the Village Road Trio, the classical RossoRose Duo, silent film scoring Club Foot Orchestra, jazz/classical Western Territory Project, and funk/bluegrass hybrid Supermule. She has performed with diverse artists including Grammy nominated Quartet San Francisco, 2008 Rockygrass winners 49 Special, and the Picasso Quartet. As a former member of the Real Vocals String Quartet she appeared on Feist’s album Metals and performed and taught in Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Latvia, and Bosnia as an Ambassador of the State Department. RVSQ also appeared on Feist’s most recent album Metals, and on the Jay Leno Show. Other performances have included at Carnegie Hall, on NPR’s Weekend Edition, at the historic Carter Family Fold festival in Virginia, at TEDx Alcatraz with Bob Weir, on PBS “Song of the Mountains,” at the Blue Highways Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands, at the Rockygrass Bluegrass Festival, as well internationally including in China, Korea, Japan, and Turkey. In 2015 Alisa premiered Richard Marriott’s Metropolis Concerto for Violin and Wind Ensemble and released an album of cross genre virtuosic solo pieces Fiddle Caprices and Pizzicato Pieces. An experienced teacher, Alisa teaches young violinists at her private studio, and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music preparatory department. Previously Alisa was director and creator of SFCM’s outreach string program at Starr King Elementary School. Alisa teaches privately and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music preparatory department and in the collegiate division.

Tristan Scroggins, www.tristanscroggins.com, is an Award winning mandolinist and composer from Denver Colorado. Tristan has toured extensively in the US, Canada and Ireland for the last six years with the critically acclaimed bluegrass band Jeff Scroggins and Colorado. At 21 he already has a decade of professional experience as a stage performer, instructor and recording artist. Son of two time national banjo champion, Jeff Scroggins, Tristan originally gained notoriety as a young phenom winning multiple state championships before the age of 16. Around then Jeff and Tristan got together with five time Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America Guitar Player of the Year, Greg Blake, to form Jeff Scroggins and Colorado. While working with Jeff Scroggins and Colorado, Tristan has been a featured artist at the International Bluegrass Music Association's Wide Open Bluegrass Festival, The European World of Bluegrass Festival, Merlefest, Rockygrass, the Father's Day Festival in Grass Valley, RTE Ireland's National Radio, and the Station Inn in Nashville. In addition to performing Tristan has taught mandolin at several workshops and camps including Nimble Fingers in British Columbia, Northern Lights in Saskatchewan, NCBMS Camp in Alberta, and Wintergrass in Washington. Tristan has one studio recording of all original tunes, one of which was a finalist for the International Acoustic Music Awards Instrumental Song of the Year. Tristan has also had the privilege of working with and being featured on recordings with Grammy winning producer Bil Vorndick, Sally Van Meter, Tim O'Brien, Darrell Scott, Mark Schatz, K.C. Groves, Andy Leftwich, Don Rigsby, David Peterson, and Jono Manson.

What's the music?

Alisa Rose Violin

Tristan Scroggins Mandolin

Attendees

Jonathan C.

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Savannah Y.

Robert Z.

Daniel S.