NASHVILLE, Tenn. – New York-based violinist and composer Daniel
Bernard Roumain brings his unique musical styling back to his alma
mater, Vanderbilt University, for a 7:30 p.m. concert Tuesday, Feb. 24,
at the Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life.
The concert, part of Vanderbilt’s Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series, is free and open to the public.
Roumain, an alumnus of Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, has
gained national notice for his blending of classical and hip-hop idioms
and styles.
The Feb. 24 event, titled "Notes of the Past and Present," will
celebrate the potential for a deeper understanding between African
Americans and American Jews through a mutual sharing of musical
traditions and a confrontation with painful aspects of their shared and
unshared histories, according to Michael Rose, associate professor of
composition at the Blair School. Rose, along with students from the
University’s Black Student Alliance and Vanderbilt Hillel, will also be
featured at the concert.
Described as a combination of Mozart, Andrew Lloyd Webber and
Prince, Roumain’s compositions have been featured at Carnegie Hall and
in performances by New York’s Brooklyn Youth Chorus, the Orchestra of
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance
Company.
Roumain serves as assistant composer-in-residence at the Orchestra
of St. Luke’s in New York, where he helps oversee the Second Helpings
Series-a program showcasing young composers-and heads the orchestra’s
Young Composers Program. He is also chair of the Music Composition and
Theory Department and artist-in-residence at The Harlem School of the
Arts, a community-based performing arts school.
For more information about the concert, call 615-322-8376.
Media contact: Princine Lewis, (615) 322-NEWS
Princine.l.lewis@vanderbilt.edu