Robert Een, composer, cellist, singer and performing artist, is the recipient of an Obie Award for music composition and two New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards for music composition and sustained achievement. He tours worldwide and is known for unique orchestrations and use of extended techniques for voice and cello. Mr. Een has recorded sixteen albums of genre-defying original music. He composes for film, theater, dance and the concert stage.
Isabella Asratyan, motion graphics, textile designer and digital artist, is originally from St. Petersburg, Russia. Isabella Asratyan emigrated to United States in 1989 as a refugee. For the last twenty years she has worked as a broadcast/motion designer and art director for CNN, LAPTV, Weather Channel and ESPN. Working in graphic and motion design, as well as her continued work with silk painting, tapestry weaving and digital painting has provided her the opportunity to hone her sense of color, balance, motion and composition. Her work is featured in collections in France, Germany, Peru, Russia, Armenia and United States.
Jacqueline M. Lopez, most recently an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Palm Beach Atlantic University teaching and choreographing Jazz, Tap, Contemporary and Musical Theater Dance Repertory since 2004, Jacqueline served as Adjunct Artist in Resident Choreographer and Rehearsal Director for the PBA undergraduate performing Ensemble 2013-2015. She spends much of her time teaching Advanced Master classes and creating new works for both performance and competitive Dance Ensembles. Her passion to inspire her students to “Dance from their Soul” and to honor our Lord through the beauty of movement has brought immeasurable joy over her 34 year career.
Born and raised in South Florida, Jacqueline Lopez began teaching dance in the studios of Palm Beach, Florida. She studied dance in West Palm Beach, New York, Las Vegas, North Carolina and Virginia. Her years teaching and preparing pre-professionals for their future in Dance has been a true passion; seeing them go on and work professionally here and abroad, so very rewarding. As well as a dancer and choreographer, Jacqueline is a wife, mother of three, recently a grandmother and an author of a musical children’s book entitled “My Meals Are Singing”. She is thrilled and honored to be a part of Room To Move Dance now that she resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
Born and raised in South Florida, Jacqueline Lopez began teaching dance in the studios of Palm Beach, Florida. She studied dance in West Palm Beach, New York, Las Vegas, North Carolina and Virginia. Her years teaching and preparing pre-professionals for their future in Dance has been a true passion; seeing them go on and work professionally here and abroad, so very rewarding. As well as a dancer and choreographer, Jacqueline is a wife, mother of three, recently a grandmother and an author of a musical children’s book entitled “My Meals Are Singing”. She is thrilled and honored to be a part of Room To Move Dance now that she resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Penderecki String Quartet is one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles of their generation. The Quartet’s performing schedule takes them annually to concert stages across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The Penderecki musicians bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep” (Toronto, Globe and Mail). The Penderecki String Quartet appears extensively in Canada, participating in this country’s foremost concert series such as the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Festival of the Sound, the Banff Centre, and Toronto Luminato Festival.
Described by Fanfare Magazine as “an ensemble of formidable power and keen musical sensitivity”, the Penderecki Quartet’s large discography includes over three dozen recordings. Their disc of Marjan Mozetich’s “Lament in the Trampled Garden” won the 2010 JUNO Award for Best Composition. The Penderecki Quartet excels in exploring new music collaborators, recently appearing with jazz saxophonist Jane Bunnett, Brazilian jazz pianist Egberto Gismonti, pipa virtuoso Ching Wong, The Pentaedre Wind Quintet, actor Colin Fox, and, of course, Room To Move Dance. Formed at the Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland in 1986, the group found quick success as winners of the Penderecki Prize at the National Chamber Music Competition in Łódz , Poland. In the same year, they received scholarships to further their studies as assistants to the Fine Arts Quartet at the University of Wisconsin. In 1991, the Penderecki Quartet moved to Waterloo, Ontario to become the Quartet-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University. Now 21 years later, the Penderecki Quartet continue as active members of the Faculty of Music at Laurier and have built the string program to be one of the top programs in Canada.
Described by Fanfare Magazine as “an ensemble of formidable power and keen musical sensitivity”, the Penderecki Quartet’s large discography includes over three dozen recordings. Their disc of Marjan Mozetich’s “Lament in the Trampled Garden” won the 2010 JUNO Award for Best Composition. The Penderecki Quartet excels in exploring new music collaborators, recently appearing with jazz saxophonist Jane Bunnett, Brazilian jazz pianist Egberto Gismonti, pipa virtuoso Ching Wong, The Pentaedre Wind Quintet, actor Colin Fox, and, of course, Room To Move Dance. Formed at the Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland in 1986, the group found quick success as winners of the Penderecki Prize at the National Chamber Music Competition in Łódz , Poland. In the same year, they received scholarships to further their studies as assistants to the Fine Arts Quartet at the University of Wisconsin. In 1991, the Penderecki Quartet moved to Waterloo, Ontario to become the Quartet-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University. Now 21 years later, the Penderecki Quartet continue as active members of the Faculty of Music at Laurier and have built the string program to be one of the top programs in Canada.