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Sunday, December 9, 5 pm Tuckerman
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THE DREAM
AND THE NEED, 16x20", watercolor, 2001, Dale LePage
FOR SALE TO BENEFIT THE DONATIONS CLEARINGHOUSE
Hear excerpts from A Song for Christmas, Ida's uplifting Christmas CD
Ida Zecco has been an international artist and educator for over 20 years. Ida earned her Bachelors of Music in voice/cello at the Mozarteum Academy of Music, Salzburg, Austria and studied with Rudolf Knoll, performing artist and member of the Vienna and Berlin Opera companies. She was also a student of the late Carl Orff in composition and theory, completing a Masters in Music Therapy at the Orff Institute, Salzburg, Austria. Ida also performed the soprano lead in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, under the Maestro's direction and also the lead role in Orff's Die Kluge. She made her European debut at the Salzburg Festival in the role of Pamina in Mozart's, The Magic Flute, under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. She later acquired a Masters in Fine Arts in acting and direction at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, London, England. She has also studied at the Actor's Studio and with Uta Hagen at HB Studio in New York City, New York.
Ida is a professional actress and a member of Actor's Equity Association (AEA). Her theatrical career includes leading roles in opera, drama, comedy and musical theater, including roles such as Aldonza in Man of La Mancha; Lucy in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown; Desiree in A Little Night Music; Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd; Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady; Julie Jordan in Carosel; as well as leading roles in Jacque Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; Side by Side by Sondheim, Starting Hear, Starting Now-to name a few. In the Boston area, Ida is well know for her roles as Barbara DeMarco, Mrs. Shubert or as Sgt. Mikey Thomas in Shear Madness, at the Charles Playhouse, Boston. She has also made several TV appearances on Fox's, America's Most Wanted, and Spencer for Hire. Over the years, Ida has appeared in numerous industrial and commercial videos and has produced and directed many others.
Is. Zecco's one-woman performance is tailored to entertain and inspire a broad-based, mature audience. It is an intelligent mix of music and theater; an extraordinary program that will surprise listeners with its passion and honesty. She has just released her first CD, A Song for Christmas, now available at amazon.com. Her second CD, Better to Have Loved… is expected to be released in late fall of this year.
She
currently performs regularly in a one-woman show produced for venues
such as the Regattabar, Charles Hotel, Cambridge and Scullers Jazz Club,
DoubleTree Suites Hotel, Boston and private functions and for several
universities and colleges as part of a master class seminar that she
offers. But over the years she has has the opportunity to have performed
at some of the world's most prestigious venues:
Carnegie Hall o Alice Tully Hall o Town Hall o Mechanics Hall o Jordan
Hall o Regattabar o Sculler's Jazz Bar oThe Park Plaza o The Charles
Playhouse o The Theater Lobby o Worcester Foothills Theater Company
o Worcester Forum Theater o Trinity Repertory Theater o Don't Tell Mama's
o Eighty-Eights o Music Festivals: Paris, Rome, Milan, Tokyo, Salzburg,
Berlin, Cologne, Brussels, Denmark, Helsinki, Beijing, Vienna, Hong
Kong, Singapore, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver
Ida
is a native Rhode Islander and has one daughter, Lauren. She currently
lives in Winthrop, MA with her husband, Jim Porcella-jazz singer and
national recording artist.
"Randy
Zinkus featured his buttery baritone…"John Amodeo, TheaterMania.com
"I would love to hear an entire show by Randy Zinkus…
…his rich mahogany tone was a joy to listen to"
Stu Hamstra, Cabaret Hotline Online
Randy
Zinkus is relatively new to the Boston cabaret scene having "jumped-in"
a couple of years ago making his debut at a sold-out performance at
Scullers Jazz Club. Since then he has performed regionally at such venues
as Club Café, The Lyric Stage, The Supper Club at Stefano's and
several clubs/restaurants in Massachusetts and in Rhode Island.
Randy was a featured artist at the first annual weekend-long CabaretFest in Provincetown. He is featured on Ida Zecco's premiere CD recording -- A Song For Christmas -- and is planning his first CD release sometime next year.
Randy is a member of Actors Equity Association and is a professional stage manager. He has worked on productions at various regional theatres around New England including Boston Playwrights, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Worcester Forum Theatre, Worcester Foothills Theatre, American Stage Festival, and several corporate engagements. In the true spirit of "the show must go on," he has been known to don a costume, grab a script and "go-on" at the last minute in place of ailing actors!