About Masterclass Lady
Rosanne (Giallonardo) Simunovic began her musical career in Timmins, Ontario. She studied piano with Anne Pizzale and later, at an advanced level, with Soeur Anita Vaugeois (Sister Cecile of Les Soeurs De L’Assomption in Timmins). Her vocal and accompaniment skills were nurtured by her aunt, the late Dorothea Mascioli.
When Rosanne graduated from O’Gorman High School, she moved on to the University of Toronto where she continued her piano and vocal studies while attaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She was hired as a piano accompanist for several musical companies, most notably, the National Ballet Of Canada. She presently holds an A.R.C.T. Teacher’s Diploma in Voice from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
Rosanne has studied choral conducting with numerous well known Canadian Conductors, including Wayne Riddell of Montreal, Quebec and the internationally renowned Dr. Elmer Iseler.
She has been a founding member of numerous community-based arts organizations: the Timmins Arts Council, later known as Arts & Culture Timmins, the Timmins Symphony Orchestra, and, the Timmins Youth Singers…as well as the TYS Alumnus choir, the Timmins Concert Singers. In 1987, she was also selected to be the conductor of the Timmins Board Of Education Choir, comprised of talented students from Grades 5 to 8.
In 1988, she was elected to the Board Of Directors of the Ontario Choral Federation (now known as Choirs Ontario), where she served as Chair of the Festivals Committee for six consecutive seasons. In 1996, in honour of the Ontario Choral Federation’s 25th Anniversary, Rosanne was selected as one of 25 recipients of the OCF’s Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contribution to the choral art. The ceremony was presided by Lieutenant Governor, Hal Jackman.
In November 1997, Rosanne Simunovic was selected by the Rotary Club Of Timmins to receive the prestigious Paul Harris Award for her years of dedication to the artistic development of young musical talent in Timmins.
In August of 2002, Rosanne Simunovic was selected by the Board Of Directors of Choirs Ontario to serve as Conductor of both the Provincial Junior and Teen Choir Camps, now renamed in honour of the Camp Benefactors, Don and Lillian Wright.
In November 2002, Rosanne was the one of the recipients of the Commemorative Medal for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, honouring her work in the development of the arts in Timmins.
Under Rosanne Simunovic’s direction, the Timmins Youth Singers and the Timmins Concert Singers have been featured in numerous choral festivals and performing opportunities outside of Timmins. In 1985, they were selected to partici
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I missed the episode tonight, who left? Too bad I missed the ensemble too!
I’m looking forward to this season of AI. I’m a little too busy to watch every night right now, but once the top 12 gets sorted out…I will be parked in front of the TV ready to watch it!
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Hi there Bizzee:
Garrett and Colton were the male eliminations and Joanne and Amy were the female eliminations.
I don’t know if I will have an opportunity to watch next week – really busy. Thank heavens for YouTube.Com 🙂
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I think all the right people left, although I would have rather seen Luke leave than Colton.
BTW, Masterclass Lady, did you check out Melinda’s My Funny Valentine yet?
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I guess it makes sense because I can’t remember any of these people. Except for Joanne.
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I don’t know if Garrett and Colton were necessarily the worst (the guys in general were very talented), but they certainly suffered from song choice (Garrett’s was especially languid) and lack of screen time. I am eager to see what Jason Yeager does with this second chance; he seems to be a rather solid singer to me (despite the supposed “cheesiness”).
The bottom two girls were spot on. I know it’s awful to say, but I remembered those two performances precisely because I found them rather painful to listen to. My eyes were popping out of my head, and I was thinking, “Ow! What is this? I cannot believe I am hearing this…” Amy’s singing was very breathy and decentralized at the beginning, and her diction was sloppy, and her pitch was extremely flat throughout the entire song. And Joanne, who for the record is extremely beautiful and seems very sweet, had major tuning issues throughout her song, lacked roundness to her tone, and failed to show much musicality in her interpretation. I’ve heard some really lovely sensitive versions of that song, and Joanne’s unfortunately came up very short. Nerves and/or sickness may have played a factor, I understand, though. They both seem like nice girls who are capable of much better, but vocally, they didn’t bring it last night.
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I just wanted to add that it does seem like everyone loved Joanne! All the girls were crying. (Ramiele, Kady, and Asia’h notably, and other girls were getting there and/or comforting each other). It’s very touching to see how close these girls are.
I wish all the eliminated contestants the best in their future endeavors.
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Erin – I haven’t heard Melinda’s song yet. I can barely find time to post these short discussion threads on my blog. I will listen to it – promise!
Looks like we are all on the same page here. But, I do think Luke deserves at leats another week. Has anybody heard him singig with his phenomenal a cappela group, “Chapter Six”? Really great singing. You can probably find the videoas on YouTube.Com. If I have a chance, I will post them.
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I loved the ensemble song – best group together since season 2 I think – will see how it all plays out once we get to the top 12. So far seems like there is some depth of talent so it should be interesting!
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I finally got a moment to watch the ensemble song on youtube :)! Very nice! Looking forward to this week…here’s hoping I can find some time to watch it!
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