JENNIFER CECE VOCALS
Welcome to the Living Tree Chamber Trio webpage!
Jennifer Cece, soprano, Rosemary Waltzer, French horn, and Dennis Dougherty, clarinet, have joined creative forces to promote the work of contemporary composers and their own new works. Traditional chamber groups which include voice will very often include piano. Rare it is to combine voice, french horn and clarinet, but, it works! Left - Rosemary Waltzer, Horn, Center - Jennifer Cece, Soprano,
The mission of our avante-garde classical chamber trio, Living Tree, Living Tree is proud to have not one, but, two living composers Composer Rosemary Waltzer has been the primary energy behind
Right - Dennis Dougherty, Clarinet, just after our Morning Music Club, Rockland County, N.Y., October 13, 2009 performance, in this photo below:
is to perform works of new composers, especially living composers
of the 20th and 21st century. What’s more, collectively we strive
through our music to convey our interest in respecting our environment, appreciating nature, and exercising compassion for all living things, especially animals.
We hope that through the music of Living Tree our messages will branch out beyond the performance space to connect, support and inspire like minded others.
amongst us, Rosemary Waltzer and Dennis Dougherty.
Our French horn player, Rosemary Waltzer has been inspired
by the poetry of Native Americans to compose lovely,
lyrical music for Living Tree.
generating original music for the trio's three instruments to play as an
ensemble. Waltzer, has recently premiered her composition,
Songs of the Wind, at Park-Art Studio and Performance Space,
in mid-town Manhattan, (April 2008) with the trio.
Also on the program was an original work for solo clarinet
called Soliloquy 1983 composed by Dennis Dougherty. Please
visit http://www.park-art.com/RECENT_EVENTS.html.
Our last performance was held October 13, 2009, in Valley Cottage, New York, for the Morning Music Club. The Morning Music Club was founded in 1924 and is the oldest continuously functioning music organization in Rockland County, New York. For more information please visit http://www.planet-rockland.org/musiclub/.
We look forward to giving further details regarding our 2010 - 2012
performances schedule planned for Nyack New York, Bergen County, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and in
2013, St. Petersburg, Russia. We also are proud to raise funds and awareness to help our animals in need through participation in peace4paws'(www.peace4paws.org) special fundraiser concert for the animal heros living in sanctuary at the Kindness Ranch. www.KindnessRanch.com coming soon.
Rosemary Waltzer: Ms. Waltzer has perfomed as a soloist and as a member of numerous orchestras and chamber groups throughout the United States including the American Wind Symphony and the Florida Symphony. As principal horn and soloist with orchestras ensembles in the Metropolitan New York area, her affiliations include the Riverside Symphony, Broadway Bach Ensemble, Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, Hawthorne Symphony, Einstein Symphony, Manor House Woodwind Quintet, Butterfield Brass and many others. Ms. Waltzer performed at the Weill Recital Hall. She has previously appeared with the Fine Arts Symphony, Tri-City Symphony, the Lansing, Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids Symphonies and the Bermuda Philharmonic. She participates in the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East at Bennington Collge in Vermont as hornist, violinist and composer. She is the horn coach at the Vermont Music and Arts Symphony. She is the immediate past president of the Rockland County Music Teachers Guild and resides, composes, and teaches horn, piano, and violin in New City, New York.
Dennis Dougherty: Mr. Dougherty is a graduate of Michigan State University where he earned dual degrees in Applied Clarinet and Composition. His private studies included Keith Stein (Chicago Symphony Orchestra and author of The Art of Clarinet Playing), and John McCaw (Philharmonia Orchestra, London). In addition to performing regularly with many orchestras in the New York Metropolitan area, Mr. Dougherty's professional career has been marked by various achievements in audio engineering. He was responsible for the world's first broadcast of a Compact Disc (WFMT, Chicago) and the world's first replay of a live broadcast recorded with PCM (digital) tape (WQXR, New York). He is an active composer with several chamber works performed in New City, New York, and New York, New York as well as in Russia and Argentina. In recent years he has premiered eight new works by other American composers, two of which were written for him. Mr. Dougherty is married to professional violinist Olga Dusheina Dougherty from St. Petersburg, Russia.
Jennifer Cece, soprano: Ms. Cece’s musical studies include attending University of Richmond with vocal scholarship, and a Masters in Music in classical Vocal Performance at New Jersey City University. She was the first place winner in a NATS 2000 opera competition. She is certified in Somatic Voicework™ and studied with the acclaimed founder Jeannie LoVetri.
In addition to teaching music, Ms. Cece performs chamber music, opera, musical theatre and vaudeville. She has premiered the work of many new composers. Favorite performances include Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, Vivaldi festivals with Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, and Gesualdo at the Dramatists Guild, N.Y.C., Camelot at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, PA., Rapunzel in Rapunzel at the Papermill Playhouse (the state theatre of New Jersey) and Nine where she played the role of Carla. Most recently she has performed with the North Jersey Symphony Orchestra. She just finished a performance of Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate in Nyack, New York for the annual Concert of Remembrance a tribute to 9/11 victims. Upcoming opera roles include Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito, at the Lincoln Center New York Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium with the New York Opera Forum. And in February 2010, Ms. Cece will sing with the Rockland Symphony Orchestra in a concert called Romantic Arias.
