Klarinet Archive - Posting 000157.txt from 2007/01

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas on Tour in Oregon and California with Concerts
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:03:11 -0500

January 17, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas on Tour in Oregon and California with Concerts
on January 19 and 21

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will be on tour and will
present two concerts in Oregon and California on January 19 and 21.

January 19 - 7:30 PM at the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theatre, 23 South
Central Avenue Medford, Oregon

January 21 - 2:30Pm at Los Gatos High School, 20 High School Court in
Los Gatos, California.

Repertoire for these performances will include Bernstein’s Overture to
Candide, Samuel Barber’s Summer Music, Colombian Dances from the
Quintet’s collection of traditional South American dances, Villa Lobos’
Quinteto em Forma de Chôros, Gershwin’s “Summertime” from Porgy and
Bess, James Cohn’s Mozart Fantasy and his arrangements of Arkansas Reel
and Carolina Shout, as well as music by William Grant Still, Dr. Louis
W. Ballard, the Quintet’s own Matt Sullivan, William Mayer, Charlie
Parker (arr. Edmund Cionek) and Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

For tickets and information about the January 19 concert, visit
http://www.craterian.org/, or contact the Craterian Theatre at 541-779-3000.

For tickets and information about the January 21 concert, contact Ray
Aylsworth at 408-395-4283 or raylsworth@-----.

The Quintet of the Americas, consisting of flutist Sato Moughalian,
oboist Matt Sullivan, clarinetist Edward Gilmore, hornist Barbara Oldham
and bassoonist Laura Koepke, was formed in Bogota, Colombia in 1976 by
U.S. citizens who were principal wind players in the Colombian National
Orchestra. The group relocated to New York City in 1979 and has since
enjoyed an international career that has taken them to concert halls
throughout the Americas, the Caribbean Asia, including annual
performances at Manhattan's Americas Society since 1982. Two time
recipients of ASCAP-Chamber Music America Awards for Adventuresome
Programming, the Quintet's repertoire represents works from composers
with a wide-range of aesthetic viewpoints. They have recorded for CRI,
Newport Classics, MMC and XLNT. Their latest CDs are Karel Husa:
Recollections on New World and Dancing in Colombia on the MSR label. The
Quintet has been a past recipient of the CMA Commissioning Award in for
a commission by David Chaitkin and a three-year Residency Award for work
in Chicago. They are in residence in The Department of Music and
Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University. Visit
their website at http://www.quintet.org.

For more information about the Quintet of the Americas, contact Jeffrey
James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.

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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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