About

Rosanna D’Agnillo is a musician and teacher. She completed her Master of Arts at the University of Calgary, then relocated to San Francisco, where she trained with Karl Lindemann, the last protege of Puccini’s leading soprano, Rosa Raisa, Natalie Limonick from the UCLA Opera Department and the internationally renowned David Jones in New York.

She teaches voice, piano, guitar and ukulele privately, in diverse styles (for piano and voice, RCM exams are an option but not a must).  Free student community performance opportunities, open mic’s, workshops on collaboration, arranging, performance, stage presence, and preparation for festivals and auditions. She coached Cantiamo, a choir for the Calgary Catholic School Board’s Centre for Learning@Home and several group ukulele / guitar courses for home-schooled students. She also teaches mindfulness in several schools throughout the Calgary area and incorporates this discipline into her pedagogy in order to teach musicians resilience and focus when under pressure or facing performance anxiety.

Discography includes three albums as lead vocalist of the group Liata, two albums of meditation materials, an album of Sacred Aria accompaniment for vocal students, and dozens of musical compositions published in TV/film around the world. Currently Rosanna is vocalist/pianist and plays guitar for Alchemy Rose with Alexandra Danicic, and can be seen regularly in southern Alberta and BC. Rosanna has been featured on dozens of radio stations world wide as well as on television. 

Rosanna D’Agnillo is a longtime community and youth mental health advocate; she is the founder of the following organizations that support local health, growing, environmental and social wellness as well as the local business community:

1. Calgary Mindfulness, offering workshops to adults, children and companies promoting mental health & wellness via mindfulness meditation. Rosanna hosts a weekly community practice (free, anyone welcome) and has worked with every major education and health provider in Alberta, well as having worked with hundreds of students in the Calgary Board of Education, the Calgary Catholic School District and at the Tsuut’ina Nation.
2. Here We Grow, an Calgary-based organization that promotes local sources and growers of food, offering affordable bulk purchase of high quality local foods and low-cost delivery. Here We Grow was founded after the first Covid lockdown, where small businesses were at a great disadvantage compared to the biggest stores. 

Rosanna is a member of the following Canadian music / educator organizations:

SERVICES OFFERED

Music performance | Voice, Piano, Guitar, Ukulele, Theory, Group Lessons | Voiceovers | Meditation

• Located in Midnapore, Calgary, very near Midnapore School (close to Macleod Trail / Hwy 22x).
• Private lessons & group lessons (often home-schooled families will take a lesson slot for 4 children, and share the fee, which I love! The group work is excellent.).
• Piano: classical (RCM), jazz, blues, pop, improvisation.
• Vocal: modern popular and jazz singing as well as classical / bel canto singing, choral practice, vocal coaching in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian.
• Theory, harmony, counterpoint, history for advanced RCM.
• Guitar & ukulele: singer-songwriter folk style, blues/rock basics.
• Monthly performance opportunities in community, workshops, master classes – optional & FREE:  All students can attend, sing, listen. What is a master class? I coach 2 or 3 students during the hour in front of a group. Open to all students no matter experience level and this is a great way to start processing your stage fright.

Music & Performance

• Piano / vocal / guitar / violin / cello solo, duo, trio for banquets, corporate events, weddings, funerals, restaurants and special events, instrumental, with vocal or both, of jazz, sacred and classical repertoire in many different languages (English, Italian, French, German, Russian, and Spanish).
• For performances of original work, please contact me to get on my mailing list about upcoming performances and releases, or for music samples for your projects. If you follow me on Facebook, that is the fastest way to get the latest news! My music is available at Spotify, Amazon, iTunes, CDBaby and all the online warehouses, so if you search for me in your store, you will find me. Uh, yeah! I still have a few boxes of CDs if you prefer!

Voice overs/Soundtracks/AudioTracks/Composition

Voice over recording and/or production. Mixing options include custom composed audio track or library music tracks that you select. I bill by the project and will provide a written estimate at the time of consultation, but for very short projects the minimum hourly billing is $50/hour.

Mindfulness Meditation

Workshops or attend my free weekly practice (online or in Fish Creek Park. I offer meditation training for children K-12, colleges, sports teams, choirs, athletes, corporations, and any other group that would like to explore this important skill set for developing attention and emotional self-regulation. I began my meditation practice as a way to handle performance anxiety / stage fright, and am pleased to offer extensive training as part of my teaching practice! This 8-week program can be customized for your environment, but essentially begins with a focus on the senses, thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Benefits include increased ability to self-regulate, better impulse control, increased focus and attention, relaxation, improved sleep, increased self-control and performance while under stress, empathy, compassion and much more! For more information, visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca.