Malina Rauschenfels
Bio:
Malina Rauschenfels attended the Eastman School of Music where she graduated with distinction, receiving a BM double major in cello performance and composition, and a minor in Spanish from the University of Rochester. There she studied cello with Steven Doane and Rosemary Elliott, cultivating a love of tone, phrasing, performance practice and good teaching. She studied composition with David Liptak, Augusta Read Thomas, and Sydney Hodkinson, developing a confidence in her unique compositional pleasures and a love of new music. She received a Masters of Music from The Juilliard School where she discovered the art of dance and its subsequent influence on gesture and theatricality on all of her future compositions and performances. She also performed Davidovsky’s Divertimento for Cello and Orchestra with the Juilliard Orchestra under Reinbert de Leeuw. She has performed in Canada, France, Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, and numerous states and conducted, had premieres, played cello, and sung at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and The Juilliard Theater. Currently Malina is performing as a soprano, cellist, and occasionally violinist and treble gambist, accepting commissions, and teaching private lessons in NYC. She is in the midst of curating various performances. She loves working on anything combining her love of dance, strings, singing, early music and new music with armies of choreographer/dancer composer/performer friends where she seeks to weaken the boundaries that have have grown to separate the arts into their disparate areas.
Upcoming Performances
- Saturday, May 5 – 8:00 pm
- WAH Center Spring Dance Festival
Bach Canata 51 with dancer Nicole Speletic; Malina, soprano
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
135 Broadway, Williamsburg Brooklyn
- Sunday, May 6 – 2:00 pm
- Spring Choral Festival: “My Life Flows On in Endless Song”
Malina, soprano
Marble Collegiate Church
Fifth Avenue & West 29th St., NYC
- Sunday, May 20 – 3:30 pm
- Sounds of Siena Concert Series: “Sounds of Light and Life”
Malina, soprano
The Church of Saint Catherine of Siena
68th St. & First Ave., NYC
- June 23
- Early Italian Baroque Selections
Malina, baroque cello, with Peter Lekx
Cleveland, Ohio
Recent Performances
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Social Networking Concert at St. Peter's Church
Malina, cello
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Marble Sanctuary Choir concert: “Caritas et Amor”
Malina, soprano
Monday, January 30, 2012
Performance of my piece Hṁ
De La Salle auditorium, Ottawa, Ontario
Saturday, December 3, 2011 – 1:30 pm
Consort Joyeux – a Renaissance Christmas
with viol consort and soprano at Rutgers Presbyterian Church
Music of Byrd, Clemens, Guerrero, etc.
Malina Rauschenfels, treble viol and soprano
with Virginia Kaycoff, tenor viol; Bryan Teoh, bass viol; Wen Yang, bass viol
November 10–19, 2011 – 7:00 pm
Sonnambula at HERE
145 Sixth Avenue, New York
Sunday, November 6, 2011 – 8:00 pm
Toby Twining Music – Vital Vox at Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave (corner of 3rd Ave), Brooklyn
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Bach Cantata 51, Malina Rauschenfels, soprano
Memorial service at St. Mark’s Church
Sunday, October 9, 2011 – 1:00 pm
15 Minutes of Fame with Zentripetal
Lynn Bechtold and Jennifer DeVore perform fifteen 1-minute pieces, including Malina’s “Hṁ”
Jan Hus Church in New York City for Vox Novus Composer’s Voice concert series
Friday, September 16, 2011 – 6:30 pm
Toby Twining Music – Music at First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn
124 Henry St, Brooklyn Heights
Saturday, September 10, 2011 – 7 pm
Premier by Kala Pierson, Malina Rauschenfels, cello
Philadelphia Magic Gardens
Thursday, August 25, 2011 – 7:00 pm
Toby Twining Music – Arts on the Edge Wolfeboro
St. Katharine Drexel Church, Alton, NH
Sunday, June 19, 2011 – 8:30 pm
Toby Twining Music at Bang on a Can Marathon
World Financial Center, NYC
Sunday, June 12, 2011 – 3:00 pm
Music in the Garden – Toby Twining Music
The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NY
Thursday, May 19, 2011 – 7:00 pm
Lynn Bechtold and Jennifer DeVore perform Malina’s “Hṁ”
Rolling Orange
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 – 8:00 pm
Bang on a Can Big Benefit Bash and Concert – Toby Twining Music
City Winery
Sunday, April 24, 2011 – 1:00 pm
15 Minutes of Fame with Zentripetal
Lynn Bechtold and Jennifer DeVore perform fifteen 1-minute pieces, including Malina’s “Hṁ”
Jan Hus Church in New York City for Vox Novus Composer’s Voice concert series
Thursday, April 14, 2011 – 8:00 pm
Toby Twining Music
CD release party for Eurydice and the re-release of Shaman
Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
March 13, 2011 – 6:00 pm
Toby Twining Music and Juice
Zora Art Space
March 12, 2011 – 8:00 pm
Performance of Raindrop Diaries by Central City Chorus
Church of St. John the Baptist, New York City
February 6, 2011 – 2:00 pm
Conducting Packer Collegiate Institute’s Middle and Upper School Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York, City
May 15, 2010 – 4:00 pm
C4 Concert premiere of Displaced for SSAATTBB choir and CD
Rockefeller University, New York City
April 2, 2010 – 11:00 am
Premiere of Stations of the Cross by Toby Twining
Wolfeboro, NH
Contact malrausch @ gmail.com