Malina Rauschenfels
Photo: Rob Reece
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 tastes 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 Cleveland Heights. She is a founding member of Burning River Baroque, and currently working on the season’s concerts. 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 grown to separate the arts into their disparate areas.
Recent Performances
- Saturday, Jan 12th, 2013 and Sunday, Jan 13th, 2013
- The Passion and Fury of Medea
Burning River Baroque at St Alban Episcopal Church (Sat) and Bethesda On The Bay Lutheran Church (Sun)
Two interpretations of the tempestuous tale of Medea …
Cantatas by Clérambault and Bernier portray the smoldering fury and undying love of the betrayed woman.
Burning River Baroque:
Malina Rauschenfels, soprano
Peter Lekx, violin
John Romey, bass viol
Eric Tinkerhess, bass viol
Wesley Hall, harpsichord
- December 21–23, 2012
- Quire Cleveland – Carols for Quire from the Old and New Worlds
Malina, soprano & alto
- December 1 & 14, 2012
- Cantores Cleveland performances at
Brecksville United Methodist Church (Dec. 1) and
Mary Queen of Peace Catholic Church (Dec. 14)
Malina, soprano & alto
- November 16, 2012
- Mozart Requiem with Trinity Cathedral
Malina, soprano section and soloist
- November 13, 2012
- Case Western Reserve Gabrieli Celebration
Malina, viol consort (treble & bass) and cello continuo
- Thursday, November 1, 2012
- Quire Cleveland live on radio broadcast WCLV 104.9
Malina, soprano
- Saturday, October 6, 2012
- Charm and Counterpoint: The Austrian Galant
Burning River Baroque at St. Alban Episcopal Church
Music featuring the Galant style as it emerged in 18th-century Vienna and the Austrian musical world. Premiering a recently discovered anonymous trio for viola, cello & violone, additional instrumental music by Haydn, Albrechtsberger and more
- Saturday, June 23, 2012
- Burning River Baroque at St Alban Episcopal Church
Cleveland’s newest baroque ensemble
presents a fiery performance of 17th century Italian passion
& virtuosity. Baroque instrumental music by Castello, Fontana, Frescobaldi, Marini, Uccellini & more.
- Sunday, May 20, 2012
- Sounds of Siena Concert Series: “Sounds of Light and Life”
Malina, soprano
The Church of Saint Catherine of Siena
411 East 68th St. & First Ave., NYC
- Sunday, May 6, 2012
- Spring Choral Festival: “My Life Flows On in Endless Song”
Malina, soprano
Marble Collegiate Church
Fifth Avenue & West 29th St., NYC
- Saturday, May 5, 2012
- WAH Center Spring Dance Festival
Bach Canata 51 with dancer Nicole Speletic; Malina, soprano
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
- 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
- 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
- Sonnambula at HERE
145 Sixth Avenue, New York
- Sunday, November 6, 2011
- 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, Manhattan
- Sunday, October 9, 2011
- 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
- Toby Twining Music – Music at First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn
124 Henry St, Brooklyn Heights
- Saturday, September 10, 2011
- Premier by Kala Pierson, Malina Rauschenfels, cello
Philadelphia Magic Gardens
- Thursday, August 25, 2011
- Toby Twining Music – Arts on the Edge Wolfeboro
St. Katharine Drexel Church, Alton, NH
- Sunday, June 19, 2011
- Toby Twining Music at Bang on a Can Marathon
World Financial Center, NYC
- Sunday, June 12, 2011
- Music in the Garden – Toby Twining Music
The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NY
- Thursday, May 19, 2011
- Lynn Bechtold and Jennifer DeVore perform Malina’s “Hṁ”
Rolling Orange
- Tuesday, May 17, 2011
- Bang on a Can Big Benefit Bash and Concert – Toby Twining Music
City Winery
- Sunday, April 24, 2011
- 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
55 Washington Square South, NYC
- March 13, 2011
- Toby Twining Music and Juice
Zora Art Space
- March 12, 2011
- Performance of Raindrop Diaries by Central City Chorus
Church of St. John the Baptist, New York City
- February 6, 2011
- Conducting Packer Collegiate Institute’s Middle and Upper School Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York, City
- May 15, 2010
- C4 Concert premiere of Displaced for SSAATTBB choir and CD
- Rockefeller University, New York City
- April 2, 2010
- Premiere of Stations of the Cross by Toby Twining
- Wolfeboro, NH
Contact malrausch @ gmail.com