Dr. Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington & Dr. Arnaud Ghillebaert Residency
Date of Event: Monday, 6th October 2025
We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington (flute) and Dr. Arnaud Ghillebaert (viola) to our Conservatoire for a special week-long residency beginning October 6th.
📅 Concert | Oct 6th | 7:00pm | East Quad, Concert Hall
Join us for an evening with Les Masques, a dynamic chamber ensemble featuring: Dr. Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington, Dr. Arnaud Ghillebaert, and our very own lecturer, Dr. Rosanna Moore (harp)
🎟️ Open to all | Free tickets | Book here → https://tudublin.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173670662/events
Programme
Toru Takemitsu, 'And then I knew 'twas wind'
Elizabeth Poston, Trio
i Piacevole
ii Molto Moderato
iii Dolce Delicato
iv Vivace Scherzando
Colin Pip Dixon, Portraits of Angels *world premiere*
i Passacaglia
ii Lament
iii Caprice
Claude Debussy, Sonata for flute, viola and harp L. 137
i Pastorale
ii Interlude
iii Finale
🎓 Viola Masterclass with Dr. Arnaud Ghillebaert | Oct 9th | 3:00pm-6:00pm | East Quad, Recital Hall
🎟️ Free & open to all for observation – No booking required
Les Masques is a dynamic chamber ensemble composed of flutist Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington, violist Arnaud Ghillebaert, and harpist Rosanna Moore. Named after the French word for "masks," the trio embraces the transformative, expressive, and theatrical qualities of chamber music, blending virtuosic performance with rich narrative and diverse artistic influences.
The ensemble brings together three accomplished soloists and educators with international performance experience across Europe and North America. Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington is the Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Oregon and has performed with major U.S. orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Seattle Symphony. A former member of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, she is also the co-founder of the Umoja Flute Institute.
Originally from Paris, violist Arnaud Ghillebaert has performed with top ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. He is an active chamber musician and principal violist of the Eugene Symphony and Oregon Mozart Players. Arnaud also serves on the faculty at the University of Oregon.
Harpist Rosanna Moore, known for her theatrical flair, merges storytelling with music. A prize-winning soloist and frequent collaborator with ensembles across the U.S. and Ireland, she currently serves as Assistant Lecturer in Harp at TU Dublin Conservatoire and formerly the University of Oregon. Her career spans performance, acting, research, and commissioning new works. Together, Les Masques explores repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary, committed to collaboration, education, and artistic innovation.
Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington is the Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance and a member of the Oregon Wind Quintet. As educator she has performed in residencies across the country and facilitated masterclasses at a institutions included but limited to: The University of Hawaii Manoa, University of Maryland, University of Texas Austin, Washington Lee University, Ohio State University among others.
As a former member of Carnegie Hall's chamber music collective, Ensemble Connect, Jacqueline collaborated with colleagues in performances at the Weill, Trinity, Subculture, and National Sawdust Concert Series. In contrast to the ensemble’s more traditional performances, Jacqueline has experience leading interactive performances in various community spaces including public schools, correctional facilities, and centers for adults with developmental disabilities.
Jacqueline completed her doctorate at the Eastman School of Music studying with Bonita Boyd with an additional certifi cate in World Music. Her former teachers include: David Cramer, Amy Porter, and Bradley Garner.
Equally at home on the orchestral stage, and as a recipient of the William D. Ford Fulbright Grant, Jacqueline studied extensively with principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic Andreas Blau. Her training in Berlin initiated her success as an orchestral flutist, leading to performances with major orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Louisiana Philharmonic.
Jacqueline co-founded the Umoja Flute Institute, a non-profi t that creates opportunities in professional development, performance, and community for black fl utists around world, in 2020. She currently serves as the co-chair for the organization. She is also a board of director locally with Orchestra Next and with the National Flute Association.
Originally from Paris, Arnaud Ghillebaert has performed as an orchestra musician with The Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields (Sir Neville Mariner), the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/Covent Garden (London, UK). He toured Europe for two summers with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under the baton of Sir Colin Davis and Herbert Blomstedt in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall in London or the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He has played with the Artosphere Festival Orchestra (Corrado Rovaris, musical director) for many years as well as the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra and is a former member of the New Haven Symphony. He performed with the Southbank Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra in England for one year and appeared in London’s National Theatre production of Tom Stoppard’s and Andre Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.
A founding member of the Elsewhere Ensemble, in 2013 he created the role of the Shadow in His Majesty the Devil-a play with music. The show, inspired by Dostoyevsky, was performed at 59E59 Theaters in New York City, FringeNYC, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and more recently in a concert version at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance. One of the Elsewhere Ensemble’s most recent creations is a new piece called Invocation by composer Colin Pip Dixon, based on the themes of violence and peace. The piece features Grammy award-winning baritone Kenneth Overton as well as UO faculty soprano Camille Ortiz. Excerpts of Invocation have been workshopped in 2022 at the UO SOMD; the whole work was premiered in the Winter of 2023 and performed at the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference in Virginia in June 2023.
A dedicated chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists such as pianists Anton Nel, Kelly Kuo, violinists Anthea Kreston and Jasper Wood as well as the Akhtamar String Quartet. He was invited to perform with the Delgani String Quartet in Eugene, at the Louis Moreau Institute in New Orleans and in the “Starry Nights” music series at the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University alongside Colin Carr, Eugene Drucker (Emerson String Quartet) and Nick Cords (Silkroad Ensemble, Brooklyn Rider).
He received his Masters from the Royal College of Music in London and completed his Doctorate in Violin and Viola performance at Stony Brook University in 2016. He has been teaching viola performance at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance (Eugene, OR) since Fall 2017. Since arriving in Oregon he has been the principal violist of the Oregon Mozart Players, has been appointed principal of the Eugene Symphony Orchestra and Eugene Opera in 2022, and has been playing concerts with Chamber Music Amici and microphilharmonic (violin and viola). Current and upcoming projects include: recording George Walker’s piano concerto with Alex Dossin and the UO Philharmonia for the Naxos label, playing the solo viola part in Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with the Oregon Mozart Players (March 2024), premiering Aviya Kopelman’s Saxophone Concerto with Idit Schner at the National Saxophone Association (Winter 2024), presenting a webinar for the American String Teachers Association (Summer 2024) and a series of recitals on underrepresented viola repertoire (Spring 2025).
Often described as a quirky and engaging performer, who is fully at home on stage both as a harpist, and as a storyteller and actor, Rosanna Moore, has made it her aim to combine theatre and music wherever possible. She has had success in multiple international competitions such as being fi rst harpist to be a fi nalist at the Gold Medal Competition at RNCM (the highest accolade offered for solo performance), won the Stan Baker award for jazz improvisation, was a semifi nalist in the Dutch Harp Competition and placed third at both the Welsh International Jazz and Pop Harp Competition, Tierra47’s International Pedal Harp Competition and the Marcel Tournier Competition.
In addition to performing as a tenured member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Rosanna can often be seen with ensembles such as National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Ensemble Signal, Slee Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Anchorage Symphony, The Syracuse Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Bakersfi eld Symphony and Buffalo Philharmonic. She was invited to give the opening solo recital at the Sentmentat International Harp Festival, Spain in 2018. Since 2015, she has been principal harp and core artist with the Lake George Music Festival, NY.
As an actress, she has worked as a narrator for orchestras and ensembles in addition to providing voice over work. In a combination of both art forms, she has worked with trombonist/actor John Kenny, was awarded honourable mention in the Eastman Lecture Recital Prize for her research and performance into the choreography used in R. Murray Schafer’s Crown of Ariadne and created a Vaudeville harp show entitled ‘Roll Up, Roll Up’, presenting theatrical harp works and storytelling, which won her a spot in the Dutch Harp Competition’s semi fi nal in 2018 . Her research into the relationship between music and theatrical performance practices was published in Contemporary Music Review in 2020 and she performed at the rescheduled World Harp Congress in Cardiff, 2022. Rosanna also provides workshops to musicians on stage presence and etiquette and the use of acting techniques from theatre practitioners to further musical expression.
As a self described ‘professional composer collector’, Rosanna pesters composers until they write for her! This has lead to two world premieres of concerti, the US premiere of David Horne’s Splintered Instruments and Amy Victoria Nam’s Somewhere to Elsewhere, a show entitled God Complex with percussion and harp duo Sticks&Strings, a recording project with fl ute, viola, harp trio, Trio Alexander, and new interdisciplinary commissions with Hats+Heels bassoon and harp duo. Since 2017, she has served as a harpist consultant for the Poppy Harp Composition Project, an innovative and collaborative composition competition. She also served in a number of roles on the executive board of OSSIA New Music collective, including as President in the lead up to the organisation’s 20th anniversary season.
In addition to performing, Rosanna was recently appointed as the new Full Time Assistant Lecturer in Harp at the Dublin Conservatoire at TU Dublin, Ireland, where she will teach students at the collegiate and pre-collegiate level. She has been invited to present masterclasses and clinics for the Royal Northern College of Music, Chetham’s School of Music, Cincinnati College of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, The Royal Welsh School of Music and Drama, the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble in Atlanta, GA and appeared as the adjudicator for the American Harp Society’s Auditions and Evaluations. Formerly she held the position of Instructor of Harp/ Artist in Residence at the University of Oregon, was the Professor of Harp at Nazareth College and the Harp Instructor at the Eastman Community Music School. She served in leadership roles in the Rochester and Eugene chapters of the American Harp Society. In addition to this, she is the co-founder and host of the Soundweavers Podcast, a chamber music podcast that explores the trials and tribulations of being a chamber musician and composer in the gig economy.
Rosanna recently completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree with the Performer’s Certifi cate, an Arts Leadership Certifi cate and a minor in theatre at the Eastman School of Music, supported by the Eileen Malone Scholarship. She previously studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham’s School of Music. Her wonderful mentors throughout the years have been Kathleen Bride and Eira Lynn Jones.
Recent past seasons saw the release of her debut duo album with Hats+Heels Duo (‘Women are…’), performances of the Ginastera and Debussy concerti, along with the US premiere of Kelly Marie-Murphy’s En el Escuro, es Todo Uno for ‘cello, harp and orchestra with cellist Nicholas Finch and the world premieres of DJ Sparr’s ‘Extraordinary Motion’ concerto for electric harp and orchestra a new percussion and harp concerto ‘Mountains Become Oceans’ by British composer Dr. Angela Slater with percussionist Dr. Hannah Weaver. This season, she will perform Reinhold Gliere’s Concerto for Harp and premiere Shade. S. Zajac’s I am the Lizard King for solo harp and orchestra.
For more information, please see https://www.rosannaharp.com/