Klarinet Archive - Posting 000173.txt from 2007/06

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Chamber Music of Charles Griffin to be Performed in New York City on
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:40:28 -0400

June 25, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Chamber Music of Charles Griffin to be Performed in New York City on
June 28 and in Liepaja, Latvia on July 1

Chamber Music by American composer Charles Griffin will be performed in
New York City and Liepaja, Latvia in the next week at the following
locations:

Charles’ Jazz Suite for clarinet and piano will be performed by
clarinetist Demetrius Spaneas and pianist Elaine Kwon on June 28 – 7:00
at The Knitting Factory Tap Room, 74 Leonard Street in Manhattan. This
will be presented as part of a concert by the Sapphire Ensemble of new
solo and duo classical/crossover works by Nickos Harizanos, Elaine Kwon,
Leroy "Sam" Parkins, William Susman, and Demtrius Spaneas
(http://www.dspaneas.com/). The Sapphire Ensemble is a NYC based music
group with flexible instrumentation that specializes in crossing genres
by presenting new classical chamber music influenced by jazz, rock,
film, theater, world music, and other forms of improvisation.

Tickets for this event are $8 in advance, $10 at the door. For more
information, call The Knitting Factory at (212) 219-3132 or visit them
at http://www.knittingfactory.com/.

The Riga, Latvia-based clarinet quartet Quattro Differente will include
Charles’ recently revised version of Panta Rei on their July 1 - 4PM
concert at The Gallery Theater of the Latvian Society House in Liepaja,
Latvia. Also on this program will be works by Nick Gotham, Jekabs
Nimanis, Santa Ratniece, Janis Duda, Edgars Raginskis, Austra Savicka
and Imants Mezaraups.

Panta Rei, originally an 8 minute work for saxophone quartet, was
premiered by the Amherst Saxophone Quartet in Buffalo, New York. Quattro
Differente (http://www.qd.lv/index_en.htm) premiered an earlier version
of the piece in Ogre, Latvia, last year.

Charles Griffin is an American composer currently living in Latvia. A
native New Yorker, his works have been regularly performed throughout
the U.S. as well as Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Canada, Europe and Asia
in such venues as Merkin and Weill Recital Halls in NYC and Washington
D.C.’s Kennedy Center and SpoletoUSA, Aspen, and International
Cervantino Festivals. He has received grants from ASCAP, Meet the
Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA, Queens Council on the Arts and New
Dramatists, and commissions from Ethos Percussion Group, the Piedmont
Choirs, and the Dale Warland Singers, among others. His work has been
included on several CDs and has regularly been aired on major radio
stations in the U.S. His “Agnus Dei” was recently included on the
program with which the Peninsula Women’s Chorus of Palo Alto, California
captured Third Prize in the Béla Bartók International Choir Competition
in Debrecen, Hungary. Read his latest From the Faraway Nearby newsletter
at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/june07/CG_nws_062507.htm and his
lively blog of the same name at http://www.sequenza21.com/latvia/. You
can also hear a marvelous new Noizepunk & Das Krooner interview with him
at http://www.kalvos.org/nkshows.html. Much more about him at his
website - http://www.charlesgriffin.net/.

For more information about Charles Griffin, 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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