Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
San Diego Symphony principal flutist Rose Lombardo paired "Kokopeli" with "Los Tres Virgenes Volcano at Sunset," learn and experience how "both stories inspire an appreciation and attention to the land that we live on" in our latest performance.
You're watching Virtual SDMA +, unique online experiences offered by The San Diego Museum of Art in collaboration with other local art institutions to inspire a robust appreciation of the arts and a deeper exploration of the SDMA collection.
Virtual SDMA+ Art of Elan are a series of online experiences pairing The SDMA permanent collection with the thoughtfully curated music of Art of Elan. Building on the 13-season partnership between the two arts organizations, the video series features musical responses to works of art that are meant to inspire and uplift the community.⠀⠀
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The Art of Elan concert series will be going virtual on every other Tuesday at 6:00 PM or tune in next week for an exclusive VirtualSDMA+ The San Diego Shakespeare Society monologue performance.
Coming Up:
August 11—Sandra Maas performing As You Like It, Act V, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare—"Woman’s Head in Profile" by Albert Belleroche (1906?)
August 18—Stephanie Richards, trumpet—"Circle, Blue-Violet" by DeWain Valentine (1978)
August 25—Lilian Franqui, violin—"Rotating Sphere with Interior Space" by Arnaldo Pomodoro (1967)
Rose Lombardo was appointed Principal Flute of the San Diego Symphony in 2011 at the age of 23. At the time, she was in her second year of graduate studies with Jim Walker at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles and graduated with a Professional Studies Certificate. Previously, Ms. Lombardo earned a Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Jeffrey Khaner. Ms. Lombardo has traveled across the globe as an orchestral, chamber and solo artist. Her solo recitals have taken her from Boston to Europe and to China, and she has had the privilege of collaborating with some of the finest musicians in the most beautiful halls around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Bolshoi Zal at the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Suntory Hall, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Jordan Hall and Boston Symphony Hall. Chamber music collaborations include performing alongside musicians from the Cincinnati Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic and William Christie’s early music ensemble, Les Arts Florissants. Ms. Lombardo performs regularly in San Diego with the Art of Élan and San Diego Symphony Chamber Music Series.
Featured:
Eliot Furness Porter. "Las Tres Virgenes Volcano at Sunset," August 12, 1966. Dye transfer on paper. Victor Diaz Color Photography Collection. 2015.394.10.
"Kokopeli," (1990) by Katherine Hoover.
SDMArt.org/virtual-sdma-plus & ArtOfElan.org
San Diego Symphony principal flutist Rose Lombardo paired "Kokopeli" with "Los Tres Virgenes Volcano at Sunset," learn and experience how "both stories inspire an appreciation and attention to the land that we live on" in our latest performance.
You're watching Virtual SDMA +, unique online experiences offered by The San Diego Museum of Art in collaboration with other local art institutions to inspire a robust appreciation of the arts and a deeper exploration of the SDMA collection.
Virtual SDMA+ Art of Elan are a series of online experiences pairing The SDMA permanent collection with the thoughtfully curated music of Art of Elan. Building on the 13-season partnership between the two arts organizations, the video series features musical responses to works of art that are meant to inspire and uplift the community.⠀⠀
⠀⠀
The Art of Elan concert series will be going virtual on every other Tuesday at 6:00 PM or tune in next week for an exclusive VirtualSDMA+ The San Diego Shakespeare Society monologue performance.
Coming Up:
August 11—Sandra Maas performing As You Like It, Act V, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare—"Woman’s Head in Profile" by Albert Belleroche (1906?)
August 18—Stephanie Richards, trumpet—"Circle, Blue-Violet" by DeWain Valentine (1978)
August 25—Lilian Franqui, violin—"Rotating Sphere with Interior Space" by Arnaldo Pomodoro (1967)
Rose Lombardo was appointed Principal Flute of the San Diego Symphony in 2011 at the age of 23. At the time, she was in her second year of graduate studies with Jim Walker at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles and graduated with a Professional Studies Certificate. Previously, Ms. Lombardo earned a Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Jeffrey Khaner. Ms. Lombardo has traveled across the globe as an orchestral, chamber and solo artist. Her solo recitals have taken her from Boston to Europe and to China, and she has had the privilege of collaborating with some of the finest musicians in the most beautiful halls around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Bolshoi Zal at the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Suntory Hall, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Jordan Hall and Boston Symphony Hall. Chamber music collaborations include performing alongside musicians from the Cincinnati Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic and William Christie’s early music ensemble, Les Arts Florissants. Ms. Lombardo performs regularly in San Diego with the Art of Élan and San Diego Symphony Chamber Music Series.
Featured:
Eliot Furness Porter. "Las Tres Virgenes Volcano at Sunset," August 12, 1966. Dye transfer on paper. Victor Diaz Color Photography Collection. 2015.394.10.
"Kokopeli," (1990) by Katherine Hoover.
SDMArt.org/virtual-sdma-plus & ArtOfElan.org
