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Glissando Duo
Elissa Weiss and Lisa Spraragen
Elissa 646-391-9670
Lisa 646-391-1339
Email: GlissandoDuo@gmail.com
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ELISSA WEISS, soprano, harp, recorder, clarinet, has sung at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Town Hall. She is a founding member of The Salomone Trio, a vocal ensemble, whose CD, Sacred and Profane, was called “a beautifully performed album…one of the most conceptually original CDs in years” by Renaissance Magazine. She spent two seasons with the New Amsterdam Theatre Company (the predecessor of the Encore! series), reviving vintage musicals. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, and MAZEL, a Jewish band. Elissa appears on Michael Hughes’s gospel CD, Amazing Grace and on the Grammy-winning New York Philharmonic recording of John Adams’ Transmigration of Souls (Nonesuch). She maintains a private vocal studio (Everybody Can Sing©), specializing in working with adults who think they can't sing or who are afraid to sing.
GLISSANDO DUO performed its debut concert in October 2007 at the Church of the Transfiguration’s A Little Midday Music series. In January 2008, they performed a full-length program at the Downs Cultural Center in Wilmington, DE. Current repertoire: Renaissance dances and songs, Sephardic and Yiddish songs, flamenco, 18th-20th century guitar and vocal works.
LISA SPRARAGEN, guitarist, has played in such venues as the Theater at Madison Square Garden, Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Pittsburgh Opera Gala, Equitana USA, Second Stage, and NY Fringe. She performed at the 500-year festival of Sephardic Music in Istanbul, accompanying singer Daisy Sedaka Braverman. She has recorded several CD's with Josué Pérez, and has played in concerts and long-term engagements throughout the city as the guitar duo Lisa y Josué. Lisa has taught youth programs throughout NYC through the Parks Dept. and Carnegie Hall's LinkUp! Program. She studied classical guitar with Robert Paul Sullivan of the New England Conservatory and with Carlos Barbosa-Lima. She participated in the master classes of Oscar Ghiglia, Alexandre Lagoya, and Paco Peña. She has also trained in flamenco dance with Cristobal Reyes, Loli Flores and others in Spain. Lisa Spraragen is a graduate of Brown University, with a M.A. degree in music performance from NYU.