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Press Release
Roseanna Vitro
Performance at Capitol Keyboard
August 30, 2009, 6-9pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 15 2009
PRESS CONTACT: Cece Rich, Capitol Keyboard, 228-9999
PROMO PHOTO: www.roseannavitro.com
LITTLE ROCK - Roseanna Vitro is once again gracing our city with her wonderful jazz vocals. Vitro will give a performance on Sunday evening, August 30, 2009, at Capitol Keyboard Recital Hall, from 6-9pm. Advance tickets are $12, and $15 at the door.
Her latest work, issued March 2008 on Half Note, (The Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer), is a blues-based recording of jazz and pop repertoire featuring Kenny Werner's fresh arrangements and an all-star band of Kenny Werner, James Carter, Randy Brecker, Ray Anderson, Adam Rogers, John Patitucci, Rocky Bryant, Geoff Countryman.
She has worked with a variety of outstanding musicians, both on stage and in the studio, including Kenny Werner, Fred Hersch, George Coleman, 'Fathead Newman,' Eddie Gomez, Arnett Cobb, Elvin Jones, Kenny Barron, Joe Lovano, Christian McBride, Eddie Daniels, Joey Baron, Al Foster, Rufus Reid, Buster Williams, Ben Riley, Allen Farnham, Dean Johnson, Tim Horner, Mark Soskin and many more.
She has served as an official Jazz Ambassador for the U.S. State Department, and has presented concerts and workshops around the world. Her celebrated performance with the Maribor Philharmonic in Slovenia was a televised Christmas 'Special' in Eastern Europe. Her studies of Indian vocal technique are documented in an article, "From Bebop To Bombay," heralded by the International Association For Jazz Education.
Currently, Roseanna Vitro is Vocal Chair for the Vocal Jazz Program at New Jersey City University. She has toured for the Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassadors program and has directed the jazz vocal program at the Wachovia Gifted Teens Program at The New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey since 2001.
In 1998, Roseanna Vitro was inducted into the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame, along with fellow Arkansas musicians, Bob Dorough and John Stubblefield.
Roseanna displays a heart and a soul rare by any standards. She is a consummate artist whose professional outreach improves us all. More information on her artistry is at www.roseannavitro.com
Capitol Keyboard Recital Hall is located at 13401 Chenal Parkway, Little Rock, Arkansas. For tickets and more information call (501) 228-9999.
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