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From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] =?windows-1252?Q?Quintet_of_the_Americas_Presents_New_?=
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:51:45 -0400

June 18, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas Presents New York University Summer Institute
Concerts on June 23 and 27 – Repertoire Includes Quintets by Elliott
Carter, Miguel del Aguila, and Marc-Antonio Consoli

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will present two concerts in
the next week in connection with their New York University Summer
Institute for Woodwind Quintets for high school and college students:

Monday, June 23 - 7:30 PM at Loewe Auditorium, 35 West 4th Street on the
campus of New York University. The program will include Elliott Carter’s
Quintet (1948 – presented in celebration of the composer’s 100th
birthday), Eric Ewazen’s Roaring Fork (1997), Miguel del Aguila’s
Quintet No. 2 and the Premiere of Xinyan Li’s Mo Suo's Burial Ceremony.

Thursday, June 27 - 7:30 PM in the Black Box Theater, 35 West 4th Street
on the campus of New York University. This will be a workshop with
composer Marc-Antonio Consoli and premiere of his Varie Azioni V, which
was commissioned by the Quintet of the Americas with funds from the New
York State Council on the Arts.

These programs are sponsored by the Steinhardt School of Education,
Department of Music and Performing Arts of New York University. You can
find more about the Woodwind Institute at
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/woodwind/summer.

Both the June 23 and June 27 events are free and open to the public. For
more information, call NYU at (212) 998-5424 or visit
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/events/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, eastern Europe and Asia. 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.

These concerts are made possible in part with public funds from The New
York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and The New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional funding is provided by The
Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Meet the Composer/JP Morgan Chase Fund
for Small Ensembles, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Jarvis
and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, and Shigeru Kaneshiro.

For more information about the Quintet of the Americas, contact Jeffrey
James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or
jamesarts@-----. -30-

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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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