Collaborations
ROSETTE
Rosette is a Richmond-based string quartet comprised of four women who love to make meaningful connections through music. From a bring-your-own-beer house show featuring Bartók’s Third String quartet, to a Woman Crush Wednesday program at an art gallery, to a collaboration with the Indian classical vocalist Saili Oak, Rosette has been creating unique concert experiences for Richmonders since 2015.
Rosette is: Ellen Cockerham Riccio and Treesa Gold, violins; Kimberly Ryan, viola; and Stephanie Barrett, cello.
For more info e-mail rosettequartet@gmail.com. Also visit Rosette on Facebook and Instagram
Rosette’s Sample Repertoire
Haydn, op. 77 no.’s 1 and 2
Beethoven, Quartet no. 3
Schumann, op. 41 no. 3
Bartók, Quartet no. 3
Shostakovich, Quartet no. 8
Frank, “Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout”
Montgomery, “Strum”
Shaw, “Entr’acte”
THALES PIANO TRIO
Formed in 2016, the Thales (THAY-lees) Piano Trio has performed throughout the Mid-Atlantic region in venues ranging from concert halls to churches to living rooms. Comprised of pianist Daniel Stipe, violinist Ellen Cockerham Riccio and cellist Sara Bennett Wolfe, the trio has brought their sensitive and exciting performance style to audiences in Richmond, VA, Cape May, NJ, Norwalk, CT, and Washington College in Maryland.
For more info e-mail ellen.cockerham@gmail.com
Sample Repertoire
Piano trios by
Maurice Ravel
Felix Mendelssohn (D minor)
Johannes Brahms (C minor)
Franz Josef Haydn (E major, Hob. XV: 28)
Germaine Tailleferre
Clara Schumann
Jennifer Higdon
Rebecca Clarke.
RICCIO - STIPE PIANO DUO
Ellen Cockerham Riccio, Violin
Daniel Stipe, Piano
Since first performing together at Richmond’s Trinity Lutheran Church in 2013, Ellen and Daniel have become frequent recital partners. The duo has appeared on Trinity’s concert series, the Forest Hill Recital Series, and the Belz-Parker Artists Ascending concert series in Memphis, TN.
For more info e-mail ellen.cockerham@gmail.com
SAMPLE REPERTOIRE
Brahms, Sonata no. 2 in A major
Beethoven, Sonata no. 2 in A major
Debussy, Sonata for Violin and Piano
Mozart, Sonata in Bb major, K. 454
Walton, Sonata for Violin and Piano
Howells, Violin Sonata no. 3
NON-CLASSICAL COLLABORATIONS
Rosette, Ellen’s string quartet, frequently collaborates with Miramar, a group that draws its inspiration from the golden age of romantic music, primarily that of the Latin American genre known as the bolero. Ellen has also appeared with salsa orchestra Bio Ritmo, jazz saxophonist Charles Owens, and has been recorded extensively by Spacebomb Studios with artists such as Natalie Prass, Matthew E. White, and Bedouine. She met her husband, percussionist Giustino Riccio, at a recording session for Bio Ritmo at Minimum Wage Recording.