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Join us at the National Gallery for an evening of art and music with NGCI curators and young musicians David Brown and Isabella Rooney. Music begins at 6:00 PM in the NGCI Sculpture Gardens and a guided tour of the National Gallery’s latest exhibitions Upon the Seas and Saltwater in Their Veins will run at 6:15 PM. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Doors open a 6:00 PM a curator led tour begins at 6:16 PM. 

About the performers…

DAVID BROWN

David is an 18-year-old vocalist, pianist, and songwriter who has been nominated to be a part of

the Butterfield Young Musician of the Year Competition (YMOY) four consecutive times and

received the runner-up award in 2015.

When he was young he didn’t think music was his talent and passion. He did Karate and

Football, and while he I sang all the time at home, he was too shy to sing in public. That

changed when he attended Cayman Academy where the music director made him sing all the

time in class and in choir. He was entered into the National Children’s Festival of the Arts where he sang “That’s What Friends Are For” by Dionne Warwick and Friends, and received his first

Gold for singing and was nominated for the YMOY. Music allowed him to attend Triple C

School where his music flourished and blossomed.

David will be attending the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in the fall of 2017 to

study Music Production and Sound Design for Visual Media.

David will be performing… 

“Corner of the Sky”

“I Wanna Know what Love is”

“Looking In”

“Beautiful City”

“No More Suffering”

“Invisible’

ISABELLA ROONEY

Isabella (Bella) Rooney, also 18, was born in Georgetown, Grand Cayman and was schooled at

Cayman Prep K-11. She was involved with Cayman Drama Society from an early age, starring as

“Annie” in Annie, the Musical, “Tracy” in Hairspray, and “Elle” in Legally Blonde, along with

many other leading, minor and technical roles over the 10+ years there. She has studied dance,

double bass, saxophone, piano and voice, winning the Butterfield Musician of the Year Award in

2011. Her international experience includes training at Interlochen, Julliard Jazz at Snow

College, and tours with The Canadian Children’s Opera Company.

Bella attended the highly rated BFA drama program at Oklahoma City University last year and

is taking a break from the arts this year to study math and sciences at UCCI, planning a return

to an international university next year.

Isabella will be performing…

“I Could Have Danced All Night”, Lerner and Lowe, 1956, from ‘My Fair Lady’

“Is it Really Me?”, Jones and Schmidt, 1991, from ‘110 In the Shade’

“Il Rimprovero”, Rossini, from The Soirees Musical Musicale review

“Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again”, Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1986, from Phantom of The

Opera

“If You’ve Got it, Flaunt It”, Brooks and Meehan, 2001, from The Producers

“Think of Me”, Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1986, from Phantom of The Opera

“With You”, Ballard, Steward and Rubin, 2011, from “Ghost”

“Glitter and be Gay”, Bernstein and Wilbur, 1956, from “Candide”