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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The Voice had some really good performances last night. I still have a problem with some of their names, but I especially liked DaNica, Craig, Matt, Damien, and Taylor. I didn’t especially like Luke’s version of Try a Little Tenderness. I think he’s good, but that’s one of my favorite songs, and his version was disappointing.
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The problems I have seen this season seem to be caused by poor coaching as much as anything. Pharrell’s arrangements and stage performance advice are awful to me. No better example than Luke’s “Try a Little Tenderness” that you mentioned Louise. The inappropriate cheesy smile, the even cheesier preplanned adlibs toward the end of the song made me cringe. Ottis and this song are favorites of mine as well but Luke is a no sale for me.
Blake was no help to Reagan or Jessie Pitts. I think he should have steered her to a different genre but more than that, he needed to work with her on her breathing. On this show song choice is everything. It has to work for the singer, be pleasing to the listener, make a good stage performance, show what the artist might look like in the future and chart well on iTunes. I bought her first live performance track and it was very good, but I lost interest in her after that.
I’m not sure that singing is Anita’s gift, but if it is, she should choose less challenging songs. I felt sorry for her when she sang her save song. Her face, smile and personality should help her succeed in whatever she chooses to do going forward.
As much as I don’t care for Ryan, he was the right choice for the save last night.
I still like DaNica but haven’t been thrilled with what Pharrell is doing with her.
Craig Wayne Boyd has stepped up and is probably on his way to receiving the giant microphone trophy followed by the trip into obscurity that comes with winning The Voice.
DWTS had a very strong top three. Any of them would have been worthy winners. I probably would have reversed the order though.
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Gene – thanks for the recap. I was watching the Ferguson news on CNN over these past few days so I didn’t tune in. And, quite frankly, I wasn’t happy with what I heard the week before. Very misguided singers and tons of technical problems with their voices.
Haha. I loved your final line. How true!
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Louise – too bad that this song fell flat. It is such a beautiful song so I will be interested to hear how he faltered and where. Strange.
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Gene, I loved your comment about Craig Wayne Boyd. I, too, think he could win it all, but then what? Have we heard much from Tessanne Chin besides performing for national events???
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It’s funny but unfortunately true. The music industry is a shadow of it’s former self during it’s glory days. There are very few stars created by labels anymore.
I did get some updated information regarding Danielle Bradbury though. I received an email notification of Miranda Lambert’s upcoming tour, which appears to be larger than the one I saw last summer, and Danielle is her only opening act for this tour. Some tours will have several openers and others change their opening act as the tour progresses, but Danielle was the only one listed for this tour. For comparison, last year’s show was at an amphitheater that seats about 6,000 and the up coming tour will be hosted by arenas and other larger venues. This opportunity for some excellent exposure is likely the result of the loyalty that Blake has for his team members and the fact that Danielle is signed with a very good label. Maybe this will be the boost that she needs to move up the star ladder a rung or two.
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