Klarinet Archive - Posting 000163.txt from 2007/04

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas to Present Special May Day Concert of Music
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:52:59 -0400

April 27, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas to Present Special May Day Concert of Music from
Brazil and Colombia in Jamaica, Queens, with Guest Percussionist
Gaudencio Thiago de Mello

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will present a special May
Day concert of music from Brazil and Colombia in honor of mediation on
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 12:30 p.m. at Community Mediation Services,
89-64 163rd Street, Jamaica, Queens, New York. Special guest artist will
be Forest Hills resident Gaudencio Thiago de Mello, organic percussion.

Thiago de Mello, composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, was born and
grew up in the Brazilian Amazon. Thiago’s musical influences include the
hymns and spirituals brought by missionaries, classical pieces he heard
his siblings play on the piano and violin, and the whistling wind, the
roar of rivers, and delicate bird songs - elements he incorporates in
his percussion and composition. He will demonstrate his organic
percussion and play with the Quintet. Visit him online at
http://www.thiago-amazon.com/.

Other works on the program include a new work commissioned by the
quintet from the brilliant young Brazilian composer Ricardo Romaneiro,
duos for flute and clarinet and flute and bassoon by the 20th century
master composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and music by Ernesto Nazareth,
Pixingquinha, and Olaya Muñoz.

This concert is free and open to the public. For more information,
please call 718-523-6868 or 718-261-7664

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.

This program is sponsored with public funds from the New York State
Council on the Arts, a public agency, the New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and
Historic Preservation. Additional funding from The JP Morgan Chase/Meet
the Composer Fund for Small Ensembles, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music,
The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation and the Music
Performance Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. With special thanks to NYS
Senator the Hon. Frank Padavan, the Hon. Helen Marshall, Borough
President of Queens, and the Queens Delegation to the New York City
Council. The programs of the LACCQ, are supported with public funds
provided by Queens Borough President Hon. Helen M. Marshall, NYS
Senators Hon. Serphin Maltese and Hon. John D. Sabini, NYS Assembly
Member Ivan C. Lafayette, the Queens Delegation to the NYS Assembly and
the Puerto Rican/ Hispanic Task Force and Council Member Hon. Helen
Sears, through the NYC Department of Cultural affairs. Corporate
supporters include Verizon, Citizens for NYC, Queens Council on the
Arts, the NYC Parks and Recreation / Capital Projects Division, the
Queens Commissioner of Parks Hon. Dorothy Lewandowski, the Cultural
Collaborative Jamaica, the NY Foundation for the Arts and the Latino
Lawyers Association of Queens County.

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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