Klarinet Archive - Posting 000283.txt from 2007/03

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Performance at California State University
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:13:17 -0400

March 30, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas in Performance at California State University at
Fresno New Music Festival on March 31

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will be in concert at the
California State University at Fresno New Music Festival on Saturday,
March 31 – 8 PM at the Wahlberg Recital Hall on the campus of California
State University, 5241 N. Maple Ave. in Fresno, California. This
performance is part of the 4-day festival dedicated to the performance
of new and original compositions by living composers.

Selections for this program will include Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Quintette
en forme de choros, Peteris Vasks’s Music for a Deceased Friend,
Victoria Bond’s ShenBlu for solo flute, Elliott Schwartz’s Bird Bath,
Neil Rolnick’s: Ambos mundos, Louis W. Ballard’s The Soul, Matt
Sullivan’s OBoy!, Carl MaultsBy’s Still Rockin' in Jerusalem and Paquito
D'Rivera’s: Wapango.

Tickets for the March 31 concert are $10. For more information, please
call 559-278-2654 or visit http://www.csufresno.edu/music/.

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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