The Moss Ensemble Performs at East End Underground

LTV Studio’s and the East End Underground Live Concert Series will present The Moss Ensemble on Sunday, September 29, at 4 p.m.

The Moss Ensemble, Marshall Coid (violin/countertenor/composer), Darcy Dunn (mezzo-soprano), Elizabeth Rodgers (piano) and Mary Wooten (cello/piano/composer), will present a concert of classical music that touches on many of the things held most dear in life — love, spirit, song, dance and, perhaps most importantly, our cats and dogs (and some other interesting animals). The program includes pieces by Beethoven, Handel, Monteverdi, Barber, Faure, Debussy, Piazzolla, Griffiths as well as three world premieres by composers Joelle Nager, Mary Wooten and Marshall Coid.

Collaborative pianist Elizabeth Rodgers holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. She is in demand as a recitalist with both instrumentalists and singers, including the distinguished soprano, Judith Raskin, and as a performer of chamber music and orchestral, choral, and operatic repertoire.

Marshall Coid has had a multidisciplinary career as a violinist, counter-tenor, actor, director, conductor, composer, writer and educator. Since graduating from The Juilliard School, he has been featured in Live TV Broadcasts from the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center and has appeared as a soloist at the United Nations, Library of Congress, National Cathedral (DC), Cathedral of St. John The Divine and more. Four decades on Broadway include roles in “Barnum” (where he played violin on the high wire), “Chicago” and his long collaboration with the late Mimi Stern Wolfe’s Downtown Music Productions culminated in a 2019 New York Philharmonic recital performance curated by Academy Award-winning composer, John Corigliano.

Cellist Mary Wooten moves with agility among the musical genres of classical performance, jazz and pop improv, commercial recording and adventures in the avant-garde. A founding member of the Soldier and Sirius string quartets, Wooten is a pioneer who helped propel the classical string world toward new ventures in improvisation and electronically-altered instruments.

Darcy Dunn sings chamber opera, classical music and new works in New York City, and is a founding member and featured performer of the Magic Circle Opera, as well as a graduate of Magic Circle training under Ray Evans Harrell. She has performed leading roles with Chelsea Opera, Bronx Opera, Encompass Opera, Opera Manhattan, and Downtown Music Productions, and has been a featured soloist at the Windham Chamber Music Festival. With her husband, baritone Mark Singer, and pianist/musical director Julia Mendelsohn, she helped create the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s “Mountaintop Celebration of Song” in Hunter, New York.

Wine and cookies will be served after the show. Tickets are $30 in advance at ltveh.org and $35 at the door and VIP Café Seating is $65. LTV Studios is at 75 Industrial Road in Wainscott.