Acclaimed Harpist Rita Costanzi to perform "A Score to Settle" this Sunday

Guest Artist Recital: Rita Costanzi in "A Score to Settle"
Written by Kico Gonzalez-Risso
Directed by Arthur Masella

A tell-all tale of music, passion and
a very large instrument
Sunday, April 3 at 6 p.m.
Rosch Recital Hall
Free and open to the public.

Premiered at Festival Vancouver in 2007, A Score to Settle is a musical monologue for solo harpist. From the initial spark of genius, to the grand plan to change the world, to the final reconciliation of art and life, this extraordinary theater piece with integrated harp performance is a musician’s comic confrontation with mortality.

Rita Costanzi has established an international reputation as concert performer, recording artist, actor, teacher, writer, composer and public speaker. Formerly Principal Harp of the Vancouver Symphony and CBC Radio Orchestra, she now devotes her life to solo and chamber music performances and teaching. As a concerto soloist with orchestras across Canada, as well as invitations from many international festivals in North America, Germany, England, Brazil and Venezuela, she is recognized as an artist of rare depth and expression, and has been featured on television and radio programs in Canada, the United States and Brazil.

In 2008, her choral work “Beneath Her Heart” received its world premiere in Vancouver, and in 2009, she collaborated with Oregon Ballet, in a new work based on solo harp dances written especially for her.

Recently, she relocated to New York City, and has been appointed Adjunct Professor of Harp at the Steinhardt School of Music of New York University.