Creating work as a solo violinist in Los Angeles, part 3
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The Los Angeles Rock String Quartet “ELECTRIC ANGELS”
Meet the Musicians in Rossi Music’s Newest Rock Strings Group
Manoela Wunder – Founder/Leader/1st violinist of “Electric Angels”
Introducing MANOELA WUNDER - Leader & First Violinist with the Los Angeles String Quartet “Electric Angels”.
A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, violinist Manoela Wunder has established herself in Los Angeles as an exceptionally versatile and eclectic artist. Classically trained, she has a strong passion for improvisation in jazz, blues, and rock genres and is an active composer and arranger for string ensembles and jazz bands.
Manoela’s chamber music experiences have been extremely prominent. She is the first violinist leader of the Los Angeles String Quartet as well as leader of Rossi Music’s newest group “Electric Angels”, and a solo violinist with LA bands “New Sensations” and international world music band “Esperanto”, and most recently her own jazz group “The Wunder Trio.” Other live performances and recordings include Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra, Frank Ocean, and a Quincy Jones benefit with Lang Lang. In addition, Manoela has been featured in films and TV shows such as Suburgatory (ABC), Qwerty (best soundtrack at the Nashville Film Festival), Spaghetti Storm, Piotr’s Seventh, and The Monstrosity.
Manoela has performed extensively in New York, Chicago, and Miami, as well as Europe, with a wide range of orchestras and chamber groups and currently in Los Angeles as assistant principal with Center Stage Opera. Her music has been heard in the most prominent halls across the country, including Alice Tully Hall (NY), Symphony Center Chicago and Walt Disney Concert Hall (LA). She is a multiple prizewinner of several competitions in the United States and Europe and has been a guest at many prominent festivals throughout her career. In Brazil, she has been coaxed back to her hometown to perform as a featured guest soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Rio de Janeiro, in the most prestigious halls of the city and on national television.
Manoela holds a Bachelor of Music from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in Violin Performance and earned a Master of Music degree with distinction under scholarship at DePaul University in Chicago.
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The Los Angeles String Trio Performs in a beautiful private home in Encino, California
This past Saturday, October 6, Rossi Music’s “The Los Angeles String Quartet” played a ceremony in a beautiful private home in Encino. As usual, the bride requested the string quartet to play more traditional classical music for the pre-ceremony portion of the wedding. But for the actual ceremony the bride insisted on having her most favorite rock tunes be arranged and performed for the processional and recessional. The Los Angeles String Quartet had the pleasure of being joined by vocalist Windy Barnes, who is as comfortable in jazz as gospel and R&B and has performed extensively in Los Angeles, CA and Asia. Her touring credits include Julio Iglesias, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Bolton. Julio said she ‘sings like heaven’ and has ‘one of America’s most beautiful voice.’
Arranger Rick Rossi wrote special arrangements for ‘You are the Sunshine of My Life’, an instrumental for the bridal party entrance, and ‘Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now’, the recessional choice. ‘Let’s Stay Together’ with vocals was used for the bridal entrance, and Camelot’s ‘The Prayer’ was softly played for the reading. Adding vocals to some of the ceremony songs was an excellent choice, it added just the right touch. The bride was very happy with the result and personally expressed her satisfaction, along with the groom. Congratulations to the newlyweds. The Los Angeles String Quartet and Rossi Music always feel privileged to be a part of these important events in people’s lives!
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Introducing “The Los Angeles String Quartet”
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A New Contemporary Approach to the “Classic” String Quartet
Early this year, Rossi Music saw the demand rising for more than just the standard classical string quartet for the Los Angeles weddings and corporate events that we book. Young brides and grooms have been requesting their favorite pop songs for their wedding ceremony in record numbers. So we started to put the word out, looking for talented young female string players interested in playing rock and pop standards in a string quartet format. Meanwhile, we collected arrangements of rock tunes for string trio and quartet to add to our repertoire. In a few weeks, we had a list of the hottest players in town – freelance musicians who actively play in movie scores and on screen in shows such as American Idol, America’s Got Talent, The Voice, and numerous talk shows and primetime television. In April, the Los Angeles Rock String Quartet was formed, rehearsed, video taped, and already performing and trying out the new groups arrangements at wedding ceremonies in the area.
We found arrangements from several prominent Los Angeles composer-arrangers of excellent rocking string trio and quartet arrangements from the 60′s to current pop hits. Songs like “My Sharona”, “I’m Yours” (Jason Mraz), Michael Jackson tunes, Led Zeppelin, Lady Gaga (Poker Face, Papparazzi, Bad Romance), You Belong to Me (Taylor Swift), Beatles, Elton John, Rolling Stones medley, Sting, and many others too numerous to mention. We have already produced several video clips of many of the songs in the Los Angeles String Quartet‘s repertoire that you can view at at http://www.rossimusic.biz/weddings-ceremony-demo.php
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Los Angeles Classical Ensembles
Los Angeles classical ensembles are a great way to add class and elegance to your private event in Los Angeles or orange county. Classical musicians are most often used for corporate dinner parties, corporate cocktail parties, wedding ceremonies, wedding cocktail parties, art gallery shows, or other elegant events. There are many different size and styles of classical ensembles that are appropriate and popular for these sorts of events.
Rossi Music offers Classical solo piano, solo harp, solo guitar, Classical duos with piano and flute,piano and violin, harp and flute, harp and violin, guitar and flute, guitar and violin, Classical trios with piano, flute and acoustic bass (or cello),harp, flute and acoustic bass or cello, guitar, flute and acoustic bass, or cello.
One of the most popular of all our classical ensembles in Los Angeles is the Animato String Trio (Violin, Flute and Cello), or the string trio (Violin, Viola and Cello), For classical quartets, the most popular is the Orange county String Quartet (Flute, Violin, Violin 2 and Cello) or 2 Violins, Viola and Cello, or a Piano Quartet (Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello), When looking for classical groups in Los Angeles, you may encounter other names to describe these groups including string ensemble, Chamber music, Chamber ensembles, Classical ensembles. Rossi Music in Los Angeles can help you break it all down by sending you all these popular groups in our music player that is customized to your particular tastes and budget. We also offer music samples of all of these Los Angeles Classical ensembles to help you to clarify and hear as well as see the difference between these various ensembles including a demo of all the most popular processional and recessional tunes to help you decide the right pieces for your wedding (since many of us do not know these tunes by name). Some of the most popular String Trio and String Quartet pieces include Canon in D by Pachelbel, Hornpipe by Handel, Spring by Vivaldi (from The Four Seasons), Air on a G String by J.S. Bach.
Rossi Music has several of the very best Los Angeles String Trios and Orange County String Quartets that Los Angeles has to offer.
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