Klarinet Archive - Posting 000049.txt from 2007/02

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Concert at Utahs Brigham Young University
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:17:25 -0500

February 5, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas in Concert at Utahs Brigham Young University on
February 10

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will be on tour and will
present a concert on February 10 – 7:30 PM at the Madsen Recital Hall in
the Harris Fine Arts Center on the campus of Brigham Young University in
Salt Lake City, Utah.

Repertoire for this performance 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.

Tickets for this concert are $12, with student discounts. For more
information about the February 10 concert, visit
http://cfac.byu.edu/index.php?id=1175 or contact the Harris Fine Arts
Center at (801) 422-7664.

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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