Rosenna East

Rosenna East is Sub-Principal Second Violin of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. She has been giving concerts for as long as she can remember, joining the SCO in 2005. When not working with her inspirational SCO colleagues, she plays as guest principal with other orchestras throughout the UK. She made her debut on folk and electric violin at the Edinburgh Festival 2011 with the ever-popular Mr McFalls Chamber.

Since 2009 Rosenna has also enjoyed working as a writer. She started the SCO blog for their groundbreaking tour to India that year, and has been a regular contributor to The Herald ever since. Most of all she loves to write columns but, though she swore she never would, she also reviews. While she cannot shake the feeling that this is going over to the dark side, it has taught her that critics are not always the enemy.

In 2010 Rosenna's arts journalism developed into broadcasting. She has now recorded podcasts for The Herald, the SCO and the Edinburgh International Festival. This season she will interview conductor Robin Ticciati in pre-concert talks for the SCO and on film. She made her debut as radio commentator for BBC Scotland with a daily morning show during the 2011 St Magnus Festival in Orkney, a role she has been invited to resume in 2012.

Rosenna has always taken an active part in music in the wider community, delivering many school education projects from the tip of Shetland to the wilds of Suffolk. While living in London, Rosenna ran her own Kodály Kindergarten classes at a school in Lambeth which was at the time ‘in special measures’. In 2010 she was part of the SCO Connect team that built an opera inside HMP Shotts as part of the national prisons project Inspiring Change and, earlier this year, she travelled to Bosnia and Croatia to work with Nigel Osborne and local young people suffering from the affects of war-related trauma. She has just started work with the team Opera for Change, who are proposing to take The Magic Flute across Africa in an articulated lorry.

In 2006 Rosenna became a Performing Director on the SCO Board. She was further delighted to be appointed to their Executive Board in 2009. In 2011 she will participate in the prestigious Clore Foundation training course for 'Leadership in the Arts'. No-one was more entertained than she when Who’s Who listed her in their edition of Britain’s Business Elite: Young Business Leaders, 2009. She has retained her place in this publication ever since.

For Rosenna’s latest concerts, articles, photos and podcasts feel free to visit www.rosennaeast.com.