🏳️‍🌈 Dawn Harms, Music Director

Adolphus Hailstork - Fanfare on Amazing Grace

🏳️‍🌈 Alisa Rose - Embracing Roots Violin Concerto

Violinist Alisa Rose

🏳️‍🌈 Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 2

🏳️‍🌈 Part of BARS LGBTQ Composer and Performing Artist Series

About Alisa Rose

Grammy-nominated violinist and composer Alisa Rose is a modern musician who easily navigates between many musical styles. With roots in classical music as well as the rich American musical tradition, she attracts attention for her expressive lyrical voice on the violin. Her stylistic fluidity gives her the ability to create unique and genuine music which is free from the constraints of genre.

Alisa Rose has appeared with a wide range of artists including the Real Vocal String Quartet, 2008 Rockygrass Bluegrass Band Competition winners 49 Special, and Grammy-nominated Quartet San Francisco. Alisa performed and taught throughout Eastern Europe as an Ambassador of the State Department, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, NPR's Weekend Edition, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Cleveland's Reinberger Chamber Hall, NBC's The Tonight Show as well as numerous international tours.

Alisa teaches privately as well as at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she received her B.M. and M.M. in Chamber Music studying with Camilla Wicks and Bettina Mussumeli.