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INCA ROSE DUO FOR VOICE AND GUITAR "...a purely emotional work that...reveals a sensitivity of extraordinary depth and warmth. Every time I listen to Things We Said Tomorrow I feel as if a cool spring breeze comes through my window to caress my soul." ----Victor Villadangos, Naxos Recording Artist The Inca Rose Duo, comprised of soprano Annelise Skovmand and guitarist Pablo González Jazey, is dedicated to building cross-cultural understanding through music, bridging the divide between classical and popular music by melding elements from both worlds into new musical expressions. The "song", marrying text with music, makes up the repertoire of this distinctive multi-cultural duo with it's unique acoustic sound and original arrangements. Praised for it's warm communicative power in concert, the Inca Rose Duo takes audiences on an auditory and emotional journey with diverse programs, including selections of original interpretations of traditional repertoire for guitar and voice and popular songs from around the world. The unique sound of this pairing combines the spirit and depth of folk and popular songs with a background in classical repertoire and training. The Duo's repertoire includes a vast range of songs spanning from English renaissance songs of John Dowland to today with songs of the Beatles and traditional and contemporary folk songs from the Americas. Since it's formation in 1998, the Inca Rose Duo has been featured in the programming of major music festivals and venues in Argentina and the United States, highlighting performances at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, Instituto Cervantes and Queens Theatre in the Park in New York, Guitarras en Concierto International Guitar Festival, Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco, Salon Dorado of the Buenos Aires Legislature, Casa de la Cultura of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Teatro Alvear and Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires, among others. La Nación (Buenos Aires) remarks that the Inca Rose Duo achieves a "musically brilliant atmosphere, in which song and accompaniment are unified into one melodic breath." Their CD recording Things We Said Tomorrow, featured in a documentary program broadcast throughout Latin America on Canal (á), received critical acclaim for it's originality and sound quality. REVIEWS "...fine scholars and musicians..." -- Henrietta Yurchenco, Professor Emeritus in Ethnomusicology, CUNY "The distinctive aspect of the duo, apart from the arrangements, is it's sound, of a delicately classical tone, that condenses a powerful emotionality in their interpretation...[they] achieve a musically dazzling atmosphere, in which song and accompaniment are unified into a single melodic breath." -- La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina "...performed with grace and quality...the hands of Pablo and the timbre of Annelise's voice...radiate pure Beatle magic." -- El Siglo XXI, Tucumán, Argentina ANNELISE SKOVMAND (soprano) With dramatic and vivid interpretations that bring to life songs from around the world, soprano Annelise Skovmand has been publicly praised for integrating the stories with the music through her sweet tone. As co-founder of the Inca Rose Duo, Ms. Skovmand combines her training as a classical singer with the spirit and sound quality of more popular expressions of the voice. She has been heard in performance in Argentina, Spain, Mexico and the United States and has demonstrated a great range of repertoire from chamber music to opera. Annelise Skovmand, having begun voice study at the age of nine with Jacqueline Kelley-Harnish, was recognized in 1990 as winner of the Florida State Music Teacher's Association Senior Concerto Competition, which included performances with the Florida State University Symphony Orchestra. She has taken courses at Harvard University, Boston University, University of South Florida, Universitá per Stranieri in Perugia (Italy), and at The Boston Conservatory, from which she earned the degree Bach
