Please join us as Emily Grabinski accompanies Sandra Ross in a voice recital featuring works by Antonin Dvorak, Claude Debussy, Charles Ives, and Kurt Weill.

Sandra Ross: Mezzo-soprano Sandra Ross has been praised as having a “supple, warm and grandiose” voice. Equally at home on both operatic and musical theater stages Ms. Ross has performed with Cincinnati Opera, Cleveland Opera, Central City Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Opera North, Sorg Opera and nine seasons with the Ohio Light Opera. Some of her favorite roles have been Orlovsky, Carmen and Cherubino. In Hamburg, Germany Ms. Ross appeared for 2 years as Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s The Phantom of the Opera.

A frequent concert soloist Ms. Ross has performed works including Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings Symphony, under the direction of the composer, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Beethovens’s Missa Solemnis, Prokofieff’s Alexander Nevsky, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Mass in Bflat Major, Handel’s Messiah and Vivaldi’s Gloria, with organizations including the orchestras of Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Ashland, Toledo and Youngstown.

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio Ms. Ross holds a bachelors degree from Heidelberg University and a masters degree from the New England Conservatory where she studied with the renowned Ed Zambara.

Emily Grabinski: Originally from Muskegon, MI, Emily Grabinski is a Cleveland-based pianist who divides her time equally between music performance and instruction. While maintaining a full studio of private students of all ages, she also enjoys a diverse musical career including performances as soloist, collaborative pianist, chamber musician, harpsichordist, and organist. She can be heard nationally and internationally with groups such as Classical Revolution, Opus 216, Tyrolean Opera Program, Hudson Chamber Players, Half Stick Duo, and UNION.

Ms. Grabinski has taken first place in several competitions including the Majorie Neville Collaborative Piano Competition (2012) and the John N. Irwin Solo Piano Memorial Competition (2009). She has served as a staff pianist at Ashland University, Cleveland State University, Cleveland Institute of Music, and The Music Settlement and currently teaches at the Laurel School Music Academy. She assists with major events of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and Cleveland Chamber Music Society and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society - Iota Rho Chapter and the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs.

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