MUSIC IN THE STUDIO

Intimate Concert Gatherings Amongst Friends Amidst Beauty

I co-founded MUSIC IN THE STUDIO in 2022 as a container within which to build an ever-expanding network of community through the connective force of music and art. The gatherings are private performances that take place in the vaulted painting studio of my aunt, artist Cammie Watson. The atmosphere is steeped in creativity and new ways of seeing by way of evocative landscape oils and gestural Sumi-e drawings. The events are for friends and friends of friends — by invitation only. Consider this your invitation !!

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During each performance, those who are present (and I believe the exact mixture of people in the room conjures a unique collective ingredient for the evening's unfolding) will be led through a program, specifically designed to invite an 'inside out' experience of classical and contemporary classical music — an experience that originates from a direct response within your own cells to the trajectory of resonance, rather than one that is initiated by intellectual knowledge. To ignite the full power of classical music, I believe we must disentangle it from the need to understand — that is, from a cerebral point of view — although a vague map of the upcoming journey and some hints at its origin story may be alluded to at the start of the evening. The intention is that as a listener, you receive the music directly through your own physical body (i.e. somatic psyche) while in proximity to others who are doing the same. Life is a feeling, after all, and sensorial assimilation is the underpinning for most of what we need know.

MUSIC IN THE STUDIO 2026

Saturday, June 27th @ 730

Invocation // Provocation // Illumination 

Music for violin, piano and voice that illuminates pain as a gateway to the divine
 

Roseminna Watson, violin & voice Melody Fader, piano

Program will include music of Messiaen, Beethoven, Brahms and the premiere performance of 'Divinatum Dolorem' by Roseminna Watson

Saturday, July 25 @ 730

Portals, Portals Everywhere

Music for violin and soprano that scrapes the inner and outer edges of emotional experience

Rose Hegele, soprano Roseminna Watson, violin

Program will include music of György Kurtág, Juhi Basal, Rose Hegele, and Gustav Holst

Saturday, September 19 @ 730

Earthbound & Heaven Sent

Music for string quartet that invites a firm grounding into the gift of being alive

EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin  Roseminna Watson, violin  Gillian Gallagher, viola  Jacob MacKay, cello

Program will include Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132 and the premiere performance of 'Rooms of the Body' by Roseminna Watson