Klarinet Archive - Posting 000345.txt from 2006/10
From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Tapestry by Benjamin Lees to Be Performed on November 2 in Salt Lake
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:04:38 -0500
October 28, 2006
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net
Tapestry by Benjamin Lees to Be Performed on November 2 in Salt Lake
City by The Contemporary Music Consortium
New York NY – The Utah Premiere of Tapestry by Benjamin Lees will be
performed by The Contemporary Music Consortium of Salt Lake City on
Thursday, November 2, 2006 – 7:30 PM as part of the “First Thursday’s at
the First” concert series at First Unitarian Church, 569 S. 1300 East in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Tapestry for flute, clarinet, cello and piano was written for a national
consortium of four chamber ensembles, the other three of which were the
Mallarme Chamber Players of Durham, North Carolina, Pacific Serenades of
Los Angeles and the American Chamber Ensemble of New York.
Works by Olivier Messiaen and Dana Paul Perna, and Utah composers Steve
Roens and Stan Funicelli will also be presented.
Contemporary Music Consortium performers will include CMC Director
Laurel Ann Maurer, flute; Robert Walzel, clarinet; Nicole Jackson,
cello; Melissa Livengood, piano, Cheryl Hart, soprano and guest artist
Stan Funicelli on guitar.
The November 2 concert is free and open to the public. For more
information, please call 801-253-3759. CMC Concerts are made possible
through the generous support of ZAP, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City
Arts Council and private and corporate donations.
Presenting exciting and innovative concerts of contemporary music for
various combinations from solo artists to large chamber ensemble, The
Contemporary Music Consortium continues to receive rave reviews for its
creative programming and high level of performance.
Flutist Laurel Ann Maurer is the Director of the CMC. She has won awards
from the National Association of Composers USA, the National Flute
Association, the National Orchestra of New York, the Chautauqua
Institute and the Utah Arts Council. She has appeared as flute soloist
throughout the United States and Europe, with performances at Carnegie
Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. At the forefront of her
career is her dedication to contemporary music. She has commissioned
many works for flute, compelling many fine composers to comment on her
performance of their works. Otto Luening wrote, "She projects composer’s
ideas with authority and elegance." Joan Tower has written, "Thanks so
much for doing such an outstanding job...this performance [was] one of
the best I've received." Augusta Read Thomas said, "Bravo! We composers
need you." Meyer Kupferman has called her playing "Truly sensational."
Visit her online at http://members.aol.com/utaharts/lam/.
Benjamin Lees' Symphony No. 5, "Kalmar Nyckel" was nominated for a 2003
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition by the National Academy
of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was the first recipient of a Fromm
Foundation award for his String Quartet No. 1 and Sonata for Two Pianos.
His works have been commissioned, performed and recorded by, among
others, the Tokyo Quartet, Aurora Quartet, Sea Cliff Chamber Players,
New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago
Symphony, NBC Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Philadelphia
Orchestra, Houston Symphony, National Symphony, Dallas Symphony, San
Francisco Ballet, American Symphony, Delaware Symphony, Pittsburgh
Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo
and Portland (OR) Symphony. He is published by Boosey & Hawkes. You can
find much more information about Benjamin Lees at his website –
http://www.benjaminlees.com/.
For more information about the music of Benjamin Lees, please contact
Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 – tel and fax.
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Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
45 Grant Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735 USA
Tel: 516-586-3433
E-mail: jamesarts@-----.net
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com
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