ACCLAIMED PIANO-TRUMPET DUO COME TO TILLETT GARDENS

Trumpeter Ronald Romm and pianist Avis Fedge Romm will make more beautiful music together at Tillett Gardens on March 11, 2009. Both Julliard-trained musicians and acclaimed performers both apart and together, they are also man and wife as well. Together they have performed for over 100 million people. Both virtuoso musicians, together they form an unusual and vibrant pair who have developed a highly personalized and refined repertoire which delights friends and fans with its energy and elegance. They recently released their first CD together (individually they have released more than 50) entitled "Seeing the Light". They have recently toured 35 cities across the United States to present their stage show "A Trumpeter's Dream."

If you listen to Christmas music, you have already heard Ronald Romm play. He was a founding member of Canadian Brass with whom he performed solo and ensemble trumpet for almost thirty years. The Canadian Brass, perhaps the world's premiere brass ensemble, (by no means limited to seasonal music) is one of the groups credited with the cross-over of classical music to a broader popular audience without sacrifice of quality or standards. Romm has shared the stage with Wynton Marsalis as well as brass performers from the world's great symphonies and appeared on television throughout the world. He is comfortable with Big Bird on Sesame Street, late-night TV hosts, or high-powered classical conductors like Zubin Mehta.

Not content with playing the piano at top US and Canadian venues such as Alice Tully Hall and Lincoln Center, Avis Fedge Romm's musicianship and musicality also include the full range of participation in operafrom coaching to directing to conducting to performingand the musical direction of the Theatre Aquarius where her productions received broad acclaim. Ms. Romm's broad skills embrace musical editing and arranging for piano for Minstrel Press and for the Canadian Brass Solo Performing Editions for Trumpet published by Hal Leonard Music, Inc.

Both the Romms have participated not only in the musical performing worlds, but also in substantial musical education efforts. Ronald Romm was appointed Professor of Trumpet and BA Nugent Professor of Music at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he maintains a full teaching schedule. He is a Yamaha Artist/Clinician. Ms. Romm has become a champion for music education in public schools in pursuit of which she became an expert in the Carabo-Cone Method, a sensory-motor approach to music learning. She has taught at the college and university level in Canada and the U.S.

Tickets for the concert are $30. or $70. with the prix fixe dinner: reservations are recommended. Tickets are available at Tillett Gardens in the Tillett Gallery, 10am to 4pm, Mon-Fri. For more information and to make reservations, call 776.8566 or email artsalive@tillett.net. This program is funding in part by the Virgin Islands Council on the Arts, a territorial agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency in Washington D.C.