Klarinet Archive - Posting 000257.txt from 2007/07

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Clarinet Quartet Music of Charles Griffin to be Performed in Madona
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:39:00 -0400

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

Clarinet Quartet Music of Charles Griffin to be Performed in Madona and
Valmiera, Latvia on August 2 and 9

Chamber Music by American composer Charles Griffin will be performed in
two cities in Latvia in the next 10 days.

The Riga, Latvia-based clarinet quartet Quattro Differente will include
Charles’ recently revised version of Panta Rei on their Thursday, August
2 evening concert at the Latvian Music Festival in Madona and on their
August 9 - 7PM concert at Vidzeme Summer Music Festival at the Sēļu
Manor House in Valmiera, 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, which consists of Guntars Gedroics, Kristaps Kitners, Marina
Vidmonte and Ceslavs Grods (visit them online at
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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