Danielle Rosaria Cummins, DMA,, v

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Dr. Danielle Rosaria Cummins

Alta Loma, CA 91737 Telephone: (909) 240-6416

Date of Birth 2-2-82

Education

University of La Verne, CA Bachelor of Arts in Music, 2004

Claremont Graduate University, Master of Violin Performance, 2007

Claremont Graduate University, Doctor of Musical Arts in Historical Performance Practice –Violin, 2010

DMA project paper: "Violins and Horses, Beauty and Truth: A study of universal aestheticprincipals as exemplified in the Spanish Riding School of Vienna and Leopold Mozart’s Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (Treatise on the Fundamental Principals of Violin Playing), 1756"

 Violin instructor 1998 - 2008: Todor Pelev, winner of Bulgaria’s National Violin Competition

Violin Work Experience 

Baroque Ensemble and Orchestral:

Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble, “Commemorating Handel and Haydn”, with Preethi De Silva, director, February 28, 2009 at Zipper Concert Hall, Colburn School, Los Angeles, CA  

Pomona College Department of Music Faculty Recital, “An Afternoon of Baroque Chamber Music”, with Graydon Beeks, director, November 1, 2009, Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, Claremont, CA

Collegium Musicum early music ensemble at Claremont Graduate University, with Anne Rardin, director, 2007 and 2008

Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, “Bach: St.Matthew Passion”, with Grant Gershon, conductor, March 7, 2010, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

Modern Orchestral:

Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra with Ransom Wilson conducting concerts in May, 2004 in the McCallum Theater in Palm Desert, Zipper Hall at the Colburn School of Performing Arts, and the IAF Theater on the Idyllwild Arts Campus, as well as concerts with the orchestra in September, 2004, February and May, 2005, October, 2007, and May, 2008 

Idyllwild Jazz Festival August 2005, and August, 2007

The Inland Empire/Riverside County Philharmonic with Patrick Flyn conducting a concert including Symphony No. 8 by Dvořák, October 11, 2003, Riverside, CA

Classical Music Festival Orchestra in Eisenstadt, Austria, 2000, 2001, and 2004, Michael Dean Lamkin, conductor

Assistant Concertmaster of the Riverside Lyric Opera Orchestra 2009 to present

Violin instruction:

2003 to present, private violin instruction from ages five to adult

April 2005 to present, violin instructor at the Claremont Community School of Music

February 2007 to present, University of La Verne violin instructor

September 2010, violin instructor at California State University San Bernardino

Author of “Discovering Violin”, a beginning violin method book, published by Santorella Publications, 2010

Solo and Small Ensemble:

Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral, Los Angeles, CA, and Saint John Chrysostom Church, Inglewood, CA, Masses for the feast day of St. Josemaría Escrivá, June 2004 to present

St Peter and St Paul Church, violinist, 2006 to present

Member of "Dragonas", Symphonic Celtic Folk Rock Band, 2010 to present 

Composer and Violinist in collaboration with Sarah Wallin-Huff for “The Visit”, a short film created for the 168 Film Festival, with Steve Zelt, director, August, 2008, Glendale, CA