James Rosenblum with Monika Woods

Music & More Winter Concert Series: James Rosenblum on Classical Piano with special guest, Clarinetist Monica Woods.
Sunday, January 22, 2023, 3:30pm – 4:30pm.

Member $18 / Non-Member $24

Season Pass: Member $160 / Non-Member $195

James Rosenblum is an accomplished classical pianist who lives in Harwich, MA. He has studied with Julian Martin from the Juilliard School, Arkady Aronov from the Manhattan School of Music, Melvin Chen from Yale and Bard College, Tomer Lev from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Israel, Jean-David Coen at the Aspen Music Festival, and childhood teacher Myrna Lyons. As a musician with a dual career as an attorney, he participated in the 2022 Cliburn Amateur Competition, and was a finalist in the 2016 Chicago Amateur Competition and 2016 WQXR Classical Moonlighters Competition. He recently was a featured soloist with the Cape Symphony in November 2022, with his wife and fellow pianist Ana Glig. He has performed in New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Massachusetts, the Republic of Georgia, and Israel. He performed Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto in New York with Charles Neidich conducting. He has been the music director at Truro First Parish Church since 2019 and is currently the interim music director at the Barnstable Unitarian Church in Barnstable, Massachusetts.

He enjoys performing the music of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Debussy, Grieg, Joplin, and more. He is an occasional composer and also maintains a small piano teaching studio. Learn more here.

Monika Woods received her musical training at the prestigious Gh. Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania where she graduated with high honors and a Masters in Stylistics of Clarinet Performance.

During that time she also taught clarinet in the local high school of music and dialogue with students further opened her mind and ears to the wonderful subtleties of the instrument, her nurturing but rigorous teaching style earning high marks with students. An adventurer and dedicated lover of lilting melodies, soon she was playing Mozart duets on the streets of Provincetown on days off between summer-abroad jobs, and not long after that was performing at exhibits, benefit concerts, Cape churches, and as a featured clarinet soloist with the Chatham Chorale.

In 2013, the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra sponsored New England Concerto Competition featured her as a guest artist at their Virtuosos concert, audience members casted their votes and she became the first award winner: “The Soloist”.

Monika teaches music for all levels and ages, and she loves to be diving into music from a variety of angles, and is grateful to live in a place that appreciates the arts.

The Music & More Winter 2023 concert series is sponsored by the Cape Cod 5 Foundation.