Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2009/03

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Concert at Salvation Army Center of Jackson
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:50:21 -0400

March 13, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas in Concert at Salvation Army Center of Jackson
Heights on March 19 - With Special Guest Percussionist Thiago de Mello

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will give a special concert
of music of the americas on Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 PM at the
Salvation Army Center of Jackson Heights, 86-07 35th Avenue, Jackson
Heights, Queens. The concert is presented by Latin American Cultural
Center of Queens and the Salvation Army Center of Jackson Heights. Guest
percussionist will be Thiago de Mello.

The program will feature music by Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber’s
Summer Music, Native American music with Sioux flute as well as music
from Colombia and Brazil.

The March 19 concert is free and open to the public. For more event
information, call (718) 335-3693. For press inquires or photos, contact
Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.

Guest percussionist Thiago de Mello was born and raised in the Brazilian
Amazon rain forest. He has created a special collection of instruments
called “Organic Percussion” which he uses in concerts, recordings and in
master classes around the world. A Downbeat award-winner both as
percussionist and for his recording, he is a frequent collaborator with
Sharon Isbin, both on recordings and in performance worldwide. Thiago de
Mello's compositions have been featured in films and documentaries,
theater and dance, and have been recorded by leading jazz artists. Visit
him online at http://www.thiago-amazon.com/.

Members of Quintet of the Americas are Sato Moughalian, flute; Matt
Sullivan, oboe; Edward Gilmore, clarinet; Barbara Oldham, horn; and
Laura Koepke, bassoon. Founded in Bogota, Colombia in 1976, the Quintet
has specialized in bringing music form Latin America to audiences in the
United States since its arrival in New York in 1979. The group has
enjoyed an international career that has taken them to concert halls
throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. 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 and Sounds of Brazil
on the MSR label. The Quintet has been a past recipient of Chamber Music
America Commissioning Awards for commissions by David Chaitkin and
Judith Sainte Croix, a three-year CMA Residency Award for work in
Chicago and is a 2008-09 recipient of a CMA Residency Partnership
Program Grant. They are also currently 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 concert is one of a series of events hosted by the Salvation Army
Center through the Chamber Music America Residency Partners Program.
Funding has been provided by the JPMorgan Chase Residency Grant Program,
a program of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and the Chamber Music America
Residency Endowment Fund. This concert is made possible with public
funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State
Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Additional
funding comes from The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Aaron
Copland Fund for Music, The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family
Foundation. 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. Special thanks to Captain
Rosaemilia and his staff.

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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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