Rosśa Crean

I am delighted to announce an upcoming live performance of my work for soprano, Twilight Lifts the Veil. The piece will be featured by Third Angle New Music as part of Haunted Haas, an evening of eerie and immersive electroacoustic works set inside Portland's historic Zidell Yards shipyard.

The extraordinary soprano Arwen Myers will perform the piece on a stunning program that explores shadows, ghosts, and twilight, alongside works by Georg Friedrich Haas, Christopher Cerrone, Nicole Lizée, Carlos Simon, and…

In Lessons from the Liminal Space, Rosśa Crean provides a mindful perspective to those who are searching for clarity through the difficult transitions in life. It presents the perspectives of self-allowance, resting, and remaining open to processing the inevitable discomforts that arise from the changes we face throughout life.

An award-winning artist and composer, Crean uses their synesthesia to create internationally-exhibited abstract paintings that reflect their own healing journey through trauma and…

MASKS AND PROOF OF VACCINATION WILL BE MANDATORY FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR PERFORMERS

THE PRIESTESS OF MORPHINE, a monodrama by composer Rosśa Crean and librettist Aiden Feltkamp, will be performed once again at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago on March 12th & 13th, 2022. The piece pays tribute to Marie-Madeleine, the Jewish lesbian erotic writer and poet whose literary body of work covered topics of Sapphic themes as well as her own morphine addiction. During her peak of popularity…

The recording of Rosśa's monodrama with librettist Aiden K. Feltkamp, "The Priestess of Morphine," will be released by Navona/Naxos Records on March 12th, 2021. The nonbinary team of Crean and Feltkamp created this project as a tribute to Marie-Madeleine, the Jewish lesbian erotic writer and poet whose work the Nazis sought to destroy during the Third Reich of World War II. Featuring sopranos Jessie Lyons and Katherine Bruton as two sides of the same woman, the work moves like a fever dream through…

Rosśa's electronic mini-book "Werifesteria" will be released on Amazon Kindle September 25th. You can purchase it HERE!

For those who would like a PDF version for only $5.00, you can purchase a download HERE!

Exploring the concept of fear and unknown, multidisciplinary artist Rosśa Crean presents "Werifesteria," a series of five poems accompanied by their own photography and artwork. Infused with liminal imagery and occult themes, "Werifesteria" touches on the subjects of human nature, witchcraft, and the…

I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy during these chaotic times. Since being in Quarantine, I have been written musical miniatures for several musicians. My friend and collaborator, librettist Bea Goodwin, approached me with several small poems several weeks back, and I decided to create a cycle using those texts called "Nightingale Songs." 

Nightingale songs began as bits of poem pieces extracted from Bea's diaries during the fall of the Kavanaugh hearings. The image of Philomela & birds flew…

Mezzo-Soprano Emily Jaworski, pianist Chris Steele, and cellist Laura Siskin will be performing Rosśa Crean's "For Atticus, the Moonlight's Lover" as part of the lecture series "21st Century Art Song as Political Statement" at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on February 21, 2020 at 11:30 am. Crean wrote the piece as an abstract response to Putin's anti-LGBTQ+ laws in Russia.

Theodore Haddin Arts and Sciences Forum is an ongoing lecture series at UAB's College of Arts and Sciences. It is a venue for…

Rosśa Crean’s operatic monodrama “The Priestess of Morphine” pays homage to Marie-Madeleine, the Jewish lesbian erotic writer whose works were sought to be destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. Born Gertrud Gunther in 1881, Marie-Madeleine published her first novel “Auf Kypros” at the age of 19, and by the end of her life published 46 works. Sapphic themes, as well as her tumultuous relationship with morphine, were the central theme of much of her work. All of this was further complicated by her…

Clarinetist Andy Hudson will give the world premiere of Rosśa's cycle for clarinet and stomp boxes titled "Hellville," inspired by the artwork of Thomas Ott's graphic novel "Greetings from Hellville." This homage to surrealism takes place at 7:30pm on February 13, 2020 at Tew Recital Hall at UNCG. This concert also includes works by Anna Meadors, Sean Mulcahy, and Asher Sizemore.

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Rosśa has announced an open call for scores from composers interested in writing for bass voice, either solo, with a solo instrument, or with experimental prerecorded or live electronics. For anyone interested, please send scores to ross@rosscrean.com with the subject heading "Call for Scores".

Duration of piece is open, though 2-5 minute pieces are preferred.

Any language (or no language) is good!

For information about what Rosśa is looking for vocally, please look here: Rossa_Crean_Voice_Info.pdf