The Rosary In Song
An Artistic Event to Lift the Soul
"Absolutely Awe-inspiring!"
"The performance was beautiful, and pointed to our Lord, our love. " Michelle Lubato, Florida
"It was prayerful and provoked new ways of viewing the mysteries.” Jesse Dow, Germany
“Miss Nicolosi leads us through each mystery allowing us to experience the fullness of each meditation.” Christopher Lindsey Oakland, CA
“An incredibly beautiful evening of meditations and empathy for our Blessed Mother."
Ken, Los Angeles, CA
"It will pull tears from the hardest heart." Tim Alexander, Los Angeles, CA
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Pianist Brian DeMaris has served as an Associate Conductor at New York City Opera and Resident Conductor and Music Administrator at Ash Lawn Opera Festival. He also serves as Resident Conductor for The American Lyric Theater, and has worked for Florida Grand Opera in Miami, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Lancaster Opera Company and Emmanuel Music.
As a pianist he has performed at Boston's Jordan Hall and New York's Studio 54 and La Maison francaise, as well as recitals and competitions throughout the U.S. He has performed with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra and the Ithaca College Symphony orchestra, and has been featured on Vermont Public Radio and Colorado Public Radio. He was a winner of the 1998 Youth Opportunities United Instrumental Competition in Washington, D.C., the 2000 Joseph Hopff Memorial Chamber Music Competition, and the 2000 and 2002 Ithaca College Concerto Competition.
Mr. DeMaris is the founder of the Alpha Omega ensemble, a touring ensemble of singers and instrumentalists dedicated to music's ability to communicate, motivate, and inspire on a spiritual level.
In September 2002, Mezzo Soprano Valerie Nicolosi debuted on the American operatic stage in the title role of Rossini’s La Cenerentola with Opera Providence. Since then she has received critical acclaim for leading operatic roles, concert works and recitals across the country.
In the opera world, Miss Nicolosi is a favorite for pants roles and Rossini Heroines having sung Cherubino in Le Nozze Di Figaro with Dayton Opera, Abilene Opera, and Knoxville Opera and Rosina in Rossini’s Barber of Seville with St. Petersburg Opera and Commonwealth Opera. Other operatic roles she is known for include Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte, Hermia and Oberon in Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Olga in Eugene Onegin, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Suzuki in Madame Butterfly, Stephano in Roméo et Juliette, La Ciesca and Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus, Cupid in Orpheus and the Underworld and Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music.
In the Fall of 2006 Miss Nicolosi sang the title role in Gustav Holst’s three-man opera Savitri with Lexington Symphony. In 2007 she sang The Italian Lesson, a one-woman opera produced by Opera Providence. She has appeared in productions with many opera companies, including Lake George Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Shreveport Opera, Ashlawn Opera, Raylynmor Opera, Augusta Opera, Cape Cod Opera and Connecticut Lyric Opera.
Miss Nicolosi is a Liederkranz Competition finalist and prize winner, and was awarded the Richard F. Gold Career Grant for Young Singers. She has appeared as a soloist with the Indian Hill Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, Falmouth Chorale, Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra, Hartford Festival Orchestra, St. Alban's Symphonia, Longwood Symphony and the Boston Ballet. She is well-known for her inventive song recital programs which make the classical song repertoire more accessible to contemporary audiences and are popular on a wide variety of venues around the United States.