Latin Waves Festival "Flamenco Beat" Concert March 29 at Jackson Theater, Sonoma Country Day School

News Release Contact:
Sara Obuchowski, (707) 546-7097 ext 218

February 15 , 2008

(SANTA ROSA, CA) – Santa Rosa Symphony’s 4-concert series, Latin Waves: A Festival of Rhythm, Melody and Dance continues Saturday, March 29 at 5:30 p.m. at Sonoma Country Day School’s Jackson Theater. Titled “Spain: Flamenco Beat,” this concert showcases the SRS Chamber Players performing works by major Spanish composers Isaac Albéniz, Joaquin Turina and Manuel de Falla.

Collaborating with the SRS Chamber players in a program that expresses the soul of Andalusian Spain, is Flamenco Arts Company of Santa Rosa, with singer/guitarist Robin Brown and dancers led by artistic director Elena Marlowe. They will express in movement and song the deep and profound influence of the flamenco spirit and sensibility. In addition to Marlowe and Brown, Flamenco Arts Company performers include: Teresa la Filigrana, Irene Sohm, Jan Zeitlin, Adrienne Gromala and Kathleen Langermann.

Robin Brown took classical guitar training with maestros such as Alirio Diaz, Italian Siena Master Classes with Andres Segovia, and voice and guitar lessons with Richard Dyer-Bennet, before consecrating himself to flamenco with Jack Buckingham, Rafael Gutiérrez, José Ramon, Mariano Cordoba, Juan Martin and most recently he studied with Manuel Parejo, Rafael Domingo, and José Galván for flamenco vocals and dancing.

He performed with North Coast Ballet and Maruja Vargas’s Spanish Dance Co., then with International Dance Theater in Santa Rosa, California, with Clifford dos Reis Jones, and finally with Cuadro Iberico, Flamenco Arts Co. and Soniquete José Galván. Today, Brown is music director and manager of the Flamenco Arts Co. and school in Santa Rosa with his companion Elena Marlowe; he teaches flamenco guitar, vocals and dance.

Elena Marlowe (stage name “Elena”) has been Robin Brown’s companion for more than 20 years and is the artistic director of Flamenco Arts Co. She teaches flamenco dance there as well as at various workshops and festivals, and performed from 1985 to 1997 with Clifford Dos Reis Jones’ International Dance Theater and Cuadro Iberico, and since 1997 with Flamenco Arts Co. and Soniquete José Galván. Galván qualifies the beautiful, mesmerizing and truly authentic Elena as “pura” and one of his favorite students world-wide. She was recently featured in Michael Brown’s documentary film My Father, His Flamenco, and I in which she performed with Robin Brown at the Planète Andalucia in Paris in 2002. She also performed in “Petenera—a Flamenco Drama in Music and Dance” at the Jackson Theater in 2004.

Tickets
Tickets for Spain: Flamenco Beat are $23 or $31 and can be purchased online at santarosasymphony.com, in person at the Santa Rosa Symphony Box Office, 50 Santa Rosa Avenue, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday-Friday, or by phone at 54-MUSIC (707-546-8742). Tickets may also be purchased at the door 1 hour before each performance (subject to availability.)

The Festival Continues...
The Latin Waves Festival finale takes place on April 26, at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. ¡Viva el Mariachi! features the entire Santa Rosa Symphony, conducted by Richard Loheyde, in collaboration with Mariachi Champaña Nevin.

Festival Series Underwriter
The Santa Rosa Symphony gratefully acknowledges Kendall Jackson Wine Estates, Barbara Banke & Jess Jackson, The James Irvine Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts for making the Latin Waves festival series possible.

Concert Times and Location
The March 29 concert takes place at 5:30 p.m. at the Jackson Theater, Sonoma Country Day School, 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa. The April 26 concert takes place at 8 p.m. at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa.

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—Photos of the Latin Waves Festival performers are available upon request—

SUMMARY

SPAIN: Flamenco Beat
Santa Rosa Symphony Latin Waves Festival
Saturday, March 29, 2008, 5:30 pm
Jackson Theater, Sonoma Country Day School
4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa

PERFORMERS
Santa Rosa Symphony Chamber Players
Joseph Edelberg, violin
Karen Shinozaki Sor, violin
Linda Ghidossi-DeLuca, viola.
Wanda Warkentin, cello
Randall Keith, contrabass
Kymry Esainko, piano
Flamenco Arts Company
Elena Marlowe, artistic director-dancer
Robin Brown, singer-guitarist
Teresa la Filigrana-dancer
Adrienne Gromala, dancer
Kathleen Langermann, dancer
Irene Sohm, dancer-singer
Jan Zeitlin, dancer

PROGRAM
Isaac Albéniz:
Sevilla and Asturias from Suite Española
Joaquin Turina:
Quartet in A minor for Piano and Strings
Manuel de Falla:
El amor brujo

Tickets: $23 or $31
Santa Rosa Symphony Box Office: 54-MUSIC (707-546-8742)
Online www.santarosasymphony.com