“I’ve worked with Rosanna on the Live Music Now scheme for the past eight years. She is a fantastically versatile musician, equally at home on the concert platform or in a Special School making music with disabled children. It has been wonderful to know that we can place her anywhere and trust her to come up with the goods every time. She has been an excellent ambassador for Live Music Now!”
- Nina Swann, Director of Live Music Now, South East
EDUCATOR
Rosanna is passionate about collaborating and creating music as a way of communicating with people. She works as an animateur, musical director, composer and teacher on creative music workshops and projects across the country and further afield. She gained a deeper insight into the animateur world through the invaluable training she received at Spitalfields Music. With an extensive background in performance and working in theatrical and dramatic productions, Rosanna also shares this practise in her work in educational settings.
Rosanna’s teaching is influenced by her wide ranging studies. After studying as a classical musician, she looked further into music and teaching traditions across various types of improvisation, latin music, kodaly, dalcroze, edara (solfege/aural training), konnakol (Indian rhythm), and klezmer.
As a musical director, she has worked on Emilia in London’s West End, and Der Neue Mench (Germany).
With Live Music Now, Rosanna frequently delivers tailored workshops and residencies in SEND schools and Dementia Care Homes and has toured the country giving interactive concerts to similar audiences and also for mainstream schools.
Young children and early years
London Rhymes
Credit: Rah Petherbridge
Rosanna designed and delivered the annual syllabus for the under 7s programme (c.100 children) for the HMDT Music Saturday School, and ran the parent and baby group for Hackney Music. She works for Creative Futures with Rosie Adediren, composing original songs with mothers and babies as part of London Rhymes, and assists on Story-Telling workshops across the country. The songs are featured on the YouTube channel.
Click to listen to I smile you smile written with the mums at London Rhymes. Rosanna was animated as flute playing rabbit for this video (a personal highlight of hers!) Animation by Claire Fauche
Rosanna has delivered and assisted on creative projects, shows and workshops for organisations including:
TEACHING
Rosanna wrote and taught the flute course at the Aberystwyth Music Festival and has delivered masterclasses for the London Sinfonietta, The Royal Irish Academy of Music, St Pauls School, Cheltenham Ladies College and Westminster School. Abroad, she has travelled to Vietnam, teaching at the Saigon Music Conservatoire and to Spain, at Musica en Segura. She works with composition students at Southampton University and has run sectionals for the Blackheath Orchestra. She is also a wind specialist for the Park Lane Group Committee and sits on the audition panel, selecting musicians for recitals at Wigmore Hall/Purcell Room.
Rosanna is in demand as an instrumental teacher and performance coach with over fifteen years teaching experience privately and within institutions. She is the demo-artist featured in ABRSM’s syllabus recordings (2014-17 & 2018-21) and has made teaching videos for ABRSM, available on their website (see below for examples). The videos are aimed at teachers, providing creative teaching advice and strategies for the exam repertoire.
And Everything Is Still…
By Andy Scott
Au Crepuscule
By Gerard Meunier
Hypnosis
By Ian Clarke
Changing Times
By Rob Buckland