Ithaca College

John Romey, current Masters in Music student in double bass performance from the studio of Professor Nicholas Walker, has been accepted as one of a select number of musicians to perform in the Festival Ensemble at Early Music America’s Young Performer Festival this summer.
 

John Romey was selected to perform on violone (a six string contrabass viol with moveable gut frets and played with an underhand bow) in the ensemble, which will be comprised of 32 outstanding students from around the continent. The ensemble will perform together under the direction of Scott Metcalfe, director of the acclaimed vocal ensemble Blue Heron.  The EMA Young Performers Festival will take place June 13-18, 2011, at First Church of Boston and First Lutheran Church of Boston, in conjunction with the Boston Early Music Festival. As EMA celebrates its 25th anniversary, the organization recognizes that the future of early music rests in the hands of today’s young performers and the institutions that shape them, so students are the focus of EMA’s celebration in June.  John Romey will graduate from Ithaca College in Spring 2011 and intends to continue to pursue his passions for historical performance practice, performing on a variety of bowed bass instruments, as well as musicological research.