SONOSYNTHESIS x ORH Dance | Move
Cari Shipp, flute & ORH Dance Company
Two nights:
🎙️ Friday, March 5, 2027 with Artist Q&A to follow
🥂 Saturday, March 6, 2027 with champagne toast to follow
Featurning original choreography by ORH Dance with works by
Johann Sebastian Bach
Claude Debussy
Steve Reich
Arvo Pärt
Valerie Coleman
Michael Colquhoun
Toru Takemitsu
Gabriel Fauré
Francis Poulenc
Proceeds support ORH Dance's Training Scholarships
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Cari Shipp has enjoyed time on the orchestral, chamber, and solo stage for over two decades. She has appeared as principal flutist with orchestras such as the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, Charlottesville Symphony, Charlottesville Opera Chamber Orchestra, and Lynchburg Symphony and served as principal flutist with the Hunt Valley Symphony Orchestra for three years. As a soloist she has been featured in concerts throughout Central Virginia, Washington DC, and Baltimore including the Charlottesville Salon Series, Music on Park Street, and the Westchester Club Library Series. She has been the featured orchestral soloist on Mozart’s Concerto in G Major and J.S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor and Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.
In 2017 she started her own benefit concert series, SONOSYNTHESIS, through which she has produced and performed fourteen solo concerts benefitting local organizations. Through this series she has been honored to collaborate with elite musicians such as Jeremy Thompson, Colin Davin, and Shelby Sender. SONOSYNTHESIS concerts feature the gems of the flute canon as well as exploring the works of living and underperformed composers.
After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy, she completed her Bachelors of Music in flute performance from the University of North Texas under the tutelage of Dr. Mary Karen Clardy and her Masters of Music in flute performance from the Peabody Conservatory under Laurie Sokoloff. She has been featured in master classes with Jeanne Baxtresser, Marina Piccinini, Jim Walker, Trudy Kane, Mark Sparks, Mathieu Dufour, Paul Edmund-Davies, and more.
Cari performs on a handmade 14k Powell flute. She maintains a full private lesson studio in Charlottesville, VA where she lives with her husband, dog, and two cats. When not teaching or performing she enjoys long hikes and longer books.
Olivia C. Rivard Hill (B.F.A. Dance, B.A. French, minor in Gender Studies) is a professional dancer, movement teacher, and choreographer living in Charlottesville, VA. After having completed her degrees at the University Of Minnesota, Olivia joined Kanopy Dance Company (WI) becoming a Principal Dancer. Her experience continued abroad in Paris, France training at the Centre De Danse De Marais and teaching Modern Technique to International Students. Her choreography has been presented by Kanopy Dance, The Bare Bones Dance Collective, LizSexe Dance and Cumulus Dance where she served as artistic director. She is currently a Resident Artist of McGuffey Arts Center and continues to bring an interdisciplinary approach to modern dance creation and performance collaborating with other artists including photographers, videographers, and more.
Olivia has taught Modern Dance Technique to dancers of all ages and abilities including at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Continuing Studies Program and at the University of Virginia. In 2019 she founded The Move Studio, a hybrid dance and fitness studio to bring the joy of practice to all movers.