The Moss Ensemble
Sunday November 2nd 2025 @ 4PM
$30 General Admission ($35 @the Door) $65 VIP Front RSVD Seat (Includes Drink Ticket)
Darcy Dunn, soprano Marshall Coid, countertenor/violin/composer Mary Wooten, cello Elizabeth Rodgers, piano
We’re thrilled to invite you to...
Please join this quartet of world-class performers for an afternoon of adventurous, varied, and beautiful music. The Moss Ensemble is thrilled to return to the LTV for our second year. Featured in this year's concert is a highly-requested repeat performance of Marshall Coid’s beloved Medieval Fantasia, along with works by well-known composers Bach, Purcell, Mozart, Faure, and Shostakovich, as well as contemporary composers Chris DeBlasio and Douglas Anderson. As always, the ensemble will share observations and insights throughout to help illuminate the music— all of which we hope will excite and move you.
About the Musicians
The Moss Ensemble artists relate to each other not only through their love of music, but through their long histories working in NYC. “I’ve crossed paths and performed with these performers for many, many years,” said Elizabeth. “Marshall and I go way, way back. And I can’t remember the first time Darcy and I met. We’ve been on the same programs for years and have enjoyed each other’s artistry! But it wasn’t until the Memorial for the late Mimi Stern-Wolfe, our dear colleague and mentor, that the four of us joined together to play the same piece and felt the pull to work as an ensemble.” Mary adds, “The piece that we loved learning together for the Memorial was titled “Moss,” and we felt it was an appropriate name when we decided to play together again. We had just one recital in mind at first; but soon after, we became excited about continuing as an established group.” Marshall continues, “We’ve all worked together quite a bit. There’s a commonality among us in being very serious and curious about getting deep into the music. With Darcy--not only does she always deliver a stunning performance, but there’s lots of thought behind her choices and her material.” “My fellow Moss Ensemble members are such wonderful musicians, artists, and colleagues,” said Darcy. “It is such a joy. We love working together, we love the music, and it feels very special to me to be included in this group. And very special to be back at LTV as well.”
Darcy Dunn - Soprano
Darcy Dunn sings chamber opera, classical music, and new works in NYC, and is a founding member and featured performer of the Magic Circle Opera, as well as a graduate of Magic Circle training under Ray Evans Harrell. She has performed leading roles with Chelsea Opera, Bronx Opera, Encompass Opera, Opera Manhattan, and Downtown Music Productions, and has been a featured soloist at the Windham Chamber Music Festival. With her husband, Mark Singer, and pianist/musical director Julia Mendelsohn, Darcy helped create the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s “Mountaintop Celebration of Song” in Hunter, NY, featuring 8 original productions over 10 years. In 2023 and 2024 the trio appeared at LTV in two original shows: Headliners and One-Liners, Songs and Stories of the Catskills Resorts, about the hey-day of the great entertainers of the Borsht Belt, and All Mankind Has Lost its Reason, about the rise of fascism in Weimar, Germany, featuring music of the era. They are repeating these shows this year in NYC and in Hunter. In 2023, Darcy co-founded The Moss Ensemble with her fellow musicians, Marshall Coid, Elizabeth Rodgers and Mary Wooten. The Moss Ensemble is thrilled to return to LTV for their second concert.
Marshall Coid – Counter-tenor, Violinist, Composer
MARSHALL COID, of Andes/NYC, has been described by The New York Times as "astonishingly versatile" for his multidisciplinary career as a violinist, counter-tenor, actor, director, conductor, composer, writer, and educator. Since graduating from The Juilliard School, he has been featured in Live TV Broadcasts from the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center and has appeared as soloist at the United Nations, Library of Congress, National Cathedral (DC), Cathedral of St. John The Divine (Artist-in Residence 1990-1996), MOMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library, Guggenheim Museum, Steppenwolf Theatre, Spoleto Festival USA/Italy, Oxford University, International Performers Festival (Belgium), and more. Four decades on Broadway include roles in Barnum (where he played violin on the high wire), Ghetto, Rags (six characters), and Chicago (onstage violin soloist since 1996). His long collaboration with the late Mimi Stern Wolfe’s Downtown Music Productions culminated in a 2019 NY Philharmonic recital performance curated by Academy Award-winning composer, John Corigliano. Marshall's award-winning music for film, dance, opera, concert, and theater has received critical acclaim since the 1980s.
Elizabeth Rodgers – Pianist
A born-and-bred New Yorker, like Mimi, collaborative pianist Elizabeth Rodgers is in demand as a recitalist with singers and instrumentalists, including the distinguished soprano Judith Raskin, and in chamber music, orchestral, choral, and operatic repertoire. She performs regularly with Downtown Music, Music Under Construction, American Chamber Opera, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, American Landmark Festivals, and Libero Canto. Her teaching experience includes Manhattan School of Music, Bard and William Paterson College. A strong advocate of performing the works of living composers, she has premiered music by Miriam Gideon, Marc-Antonio Consoli, Wendy Griffiths, Tom Addison, Carolyn Lord, Joelle Wallach, Robert Dennis, Justine Chen, and Melissa Shifflet. She has recorded with Opus 1, Grenadilla, CRI, Musical Heritage, New World, and Albany. “I knew Mimi for over 30 years,” said Elizabeth, “and not only was she a conductor and an entrepreneur, but she was a fabulous pianist. When she was conducting a large piece that included piano, she asked me to play. The piano is how we related to each other.”
