222 MAIN STREET
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2006 – 7:00 P.M.
Harps on Main and the Historic Downtown Program will be hosting in concert Zoe Vandermeer, Coloratura Soprano and Baroque Triple Harp musician.
The concert will be held at Harps on Main, located at 222 Main Street, Rising Sun, Indiana on Saturday, May 27th, at 7:00 P.M. Admission is free to all Ohio County residents ( show drivers license) and $10 for all attendee outside of Ohio County.
Zoe Vandermeer is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where she was awarded several prizes and scholarships. She also studied composition at Manhattan School of Music and acting at the American Conservatory Theatre. She holds a degree in Humanities from the New College of California.
Ms. Vandermeer was winner of the Bay Area Vocal Arts Competition and was recipient of the Emerging Artists Fund. She was a finalist in the London Young Artists Early Music Competition, the Wilfred Laurier Concert Aria Competition (Canada), the Northwest Early Music forum Competition (England), and the Bay Area Artists Fellowship Grant. Ms Vandermeer has performed her original one-woman show about love, betrayal, revenge and madness, “If Love Be the Food of Musick, 1782, (in which she accompanies her singing on harp and harpsichord the music of Dowland, Purcell, Handel, and others), at the International Fringe Theatre Festival and in various historical sites and venues. Articles about “If Love…” have appeared in Swiss publication “Harpa” and the Classical Singer Magazine. Her operatic roles include Violetta, Lucia, Juliet, Olympia, Queen of the Night, and Goddess of the Deep. The latter role is in her original show “Zoe’s Musical Fairy Tale, Upon A Time”. Her show, in which she wrote the story, the poetic libretto and composed to Phantom of the Opera, Into the Woods, Secret Garden, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and Sweeney Todd.
As a singer/composer, she was commissioned to write “The Enchanted Nightingale”. She performed as the coloratura soloist with the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, internationally acclaimed Sonos Handbell Ensembe and the Oakland Symphony Chamber Chorus. The San Francisco Sinfonietta premiered her work “In Man’s Heart is a Little Room”, in which she sang the soprano solo with the violin soloist and string orchestra.
Ms. Vandermeer has been a featured guest on radio stations in California, Indiana, and Scotland and her CDs have aired on radio stations across the U.S. Her CD “Murder Lullaby”, which features selections from her show Zoe’s Musical Fairy Tale, Upon A Time”, was nominated fro an album award by the international songwriting organization Just Plain Folks in 2000. They reviewed it as – ‘think Sweeney Todd with 10xthe intensity’ – and added her harp to their T-Shirt! The following year, she received a standing ovation for her song ‘Icy Waters” at the Just Plain Folks convention in Los Angeles. A feature interview with Ms. Vandermeer appears in the early June, 05 issue of the Litchfield County Times, and includes photos not only of Ms. Vandermeer, but also of her artwork for the future boo of ‘Zoe’s Musical Fairy Tale, Upon A Time’. When Ms. Vandermeer isn’t singing, playing the harp, composing, or wearing her hat as producer/engineer of Live Sound Studios, she is spending time with her horse Magic where they live in northwest Connecticut.
For more information on the concert contact: Harps on Main at (812) 438-3032 or the Historic Downtown Program at (812) 438-2750.
