ASM presents Rocks and Rivers

Rocks and Rivers presented by ASM – a new trio project and song cycle by Theresa Rosas (piano and vocals) with Alan Grubner, violin and Sam Weber, bass.

All are welcome.

THERESA ROSAS is a pianist, teacher, composer and songwriter, based in Brooklyn, NY since 1998. A classical and creative musician, she has presented music throughout NYC at National Opera Center, South Oxford Space, Brooklyn Conservatory, St. Mark’s Church, Galapagos, I-beam, Old Stone House, Knitting Factory, Shapeshifter Lab, Teatro La Tea. Her main collaborators have included composers Paul Steven Ray and composers of the composer/performer collective, Anti-Social Music. Rocks and Rivers follows up Heart Songs and Sounds which this trio performed in 2022 . Theresa has been a piano faculty member at Greenwich House Music School since 2015 and plans to release a recording of Chopin’s 24 Preludes in 2025.

ALAN GRUBNER graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College where he received both the 1998 MacDonald-Smith Music Prize for High Achievement in Musical Performance and the Heiman-Rosenthal Ensembles Award for High Achievement in the Creative Arts. He continued graduate studies in jazz performance at Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory. Alan has been an adjunct professor of violin and improvisation studies at Five Towns College, and he is equally dedicated to inspiring students and audiences throughout the world. From 2017-2023 Alan was a member of the bluegrass band, Nefesh Mountain. Their 2018 and 2021 releases Beneath the Open Sky and Songs for the Sparrows feature him on fiddle alongside Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Bryan Sutton, John Doyle, David Grier and Tony Trischka. Some of Alan’s other work on fiddle is featured throughout the groundbreaking film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival. His work on violin and viola is featured on multiple episodes of the Emmy Award-winning TV series, Louie, starring Grammy Award-winning comedian, Louis C.K.Alan is also a longtime collaborator with renowned jazz singer, Allan Harris, and he is a featured soloist in Harris’ celebrated off-broadway musical, Cross that River. In 2024 he joined Mr. Harris’ Jazz & Poetry project. A sought-after arranger and self-contained chamber orchestra, Alan’s string arranging work has been featured throughout many albums including James Maddock’s The Green, Jenn Beaupre’s Reach Out, and on the newest single from Leaders of the Shift, Forever is When. The debut album from Alan Grubner’s Firelight Ensemble, Long Road Home, features Aoife O’Donovan, Sonya Kitchell and Philip Hamilton.

SAM WEBER is an acoustic and electric bassist, composer, and arranger based in Brooklyn, New York. Since his arrival in New York City in 2012, Sam has been in constant demand as a sideman, performing with an eclectic community of musicians ranging from singer-songwriters to contemporary theater artists, dancers, rappers, crooners, avant-garde improvisers, and rising stars of the NYC jazz scene. Highlights from the past year include performances at top jazz venues such as The Blue Note, Lincoln Center, Birdland, Smalls, and The 1905, historic rock and folk venues such as The Grand Ole Opry, Club Passim, The Bitter End, and Cafe Wha, Ars Nova’s award-winning production of Oratorio For Living Things, national and international jazz festivals, and many many others. Originally a midwesterner (growing up in Terre Haute, IN, and Kalamazoo, MI), Sam is an alumni of Western Michigan University, where he earned both a BA in Jazz Studies (2010) and an MA in Music (2011). Sam is also active as an educator and has traveled throughout the US and internationally presenting clinics, lectures, and masterclasses, in addition to maintaining his own private studio

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency