Concert: Directed by Nancy Rubenstein Messham

Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference 2009 (Updates and Links)

 

Nancy Rubenstein Messham is currently the artistic director of the Music Reborn Project and is a native of Tampa, Florida.

Rubenstein Messham began her piano studies at the age of three. She obtained her undergraduate degree in music education and her Master of Music degree in piano pedagogy from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

As founder and director of the Music Reborn Project, she has researched composers whose lives were affected by the reign of the Nazis, collected rare scores and organized concerts in Pennsylvania and Florida since 2003.        

The purpose of Music Reborn is to rediscover and preserve the music of a lost generation of early twentieth century European composers, and to share it with audiences. In April of 2007, Rubenstein Messham traveled to the Czech Republic, where she examined music archives with Professor David Bloch, founder of the Terezin Memorial Music Project, director of the Terezin Music Anthology and music advisor for the Terezin International Music Center in Prague.

Messham will direct a special concert showcasing music suppressed by the Third Reich, as well as a segment of music from the camps, most notably Terezin. The concert titled “Music Reborn: Forbidden and Forgotten” will be performed by guest musicians along with Seton Hill music department faculty and students on Sunday, October 25, from 4:00-5:15 p.m. in the Seton Hill Performing Arts Center.

Links

• The Music Reborn Project (A Surpressed Music Project) 
• Nancy Rubenstein Messham (Facebook Network)