Joyful Rising: A multi-sensory experience with violist-artist Anne Black

Violist and visual artist Anne Black invites you to a very special evening featuring an array of multisensory delights. "Joyful Rising" will include three pieces from women composers - “Rising” by Pamela Marshall, “The Cresset Stone” by Hilary Tann, and “Four epiphanies” by Ruth Schonthal, each carefully selected for their tone and emotion. Between each piece, selections from a particular poem will be read. Augmenting the music and the poetry will be additional multisensory elements.

This concert is held on Anne's birthday. "The best present I can think of is to have people show up and experience this amazing music together. There is no substitute for the energy of a large group of people experiencing something like this together in the same space!"

Don't miss it!

Concert tickets are $20. A special 'Support EAC' ticket, $25, is available for those who would like to help the Arts Center sustain its slate of programming for all. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

About the Artist

A multi-faceted artist fluent in many media, Anne Black has built a richly varied career in the performing and visual arts.

She is Principal Viola of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and Cantata Singers and also performs with many Boston-area organizations, including Boston Pops, Emmanuel Music, Boston Lyric Opera, Masterworks Chorale, and the Record Players. A champion of contemporary music, Ms. Black is violist of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble and appears often with Collage New Music, including Collage’s Grammy-nominated recording of John Harbison’s Mottetti di Montale. She has performed and recorded over a dozen works by microtonal composer Ezra Sims, and commissioned his “Concert Piece” for viola and chamber orchestra which she premiered and recorded with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston in 1990. She was viola d’amore soloist in Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots with the American Symphony in 2009.

A tenured member of Handel & Haydn Society's period instrument orchestra, she also performs with Boston Baroque, Aston Magna Festival, Peregrine Consort, and Endicott Chamber Players. She performed on Mozart's own Viola, during its first trip to the US, for a live performance and recording at WGBH in June 2013; her article about this experience was published in Journal of the American Viola Society. She was viola d'amore soloist with Boston Baroque and the Blanche Moyse Chorale in Marlboro, Vermont.

She has produced and edited several album projects with her husband, recording engineer Frank Cunningham, including albums for violinist Daniel Stepner and pianist Sally Pinkas, violinist Masha Lankovsky and pianist Byron Schenkman, and currently, a solo album with Ed Barker, Principal Bass of the Boston Symphony. She also produced two albums for Guy Fishman, Principal Cello of the Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra.