Klarinet Archive - Posting 000117.txt from 2009/03

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Palisades Virtuosi Presents Women in Music Concert on March 29,
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:12:47 -0400

March 25, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Palisades Virtuosi Presents Women in Music Concert on March 29,
Featuring World Premiere by Pulitzer Prize Winner Melinda Wagner

Ridgewood, NJ - The critically-acclaimed Palisades Virtuosi presents
Women in Music, the third concert of their 2008-2009 season on Sunday,
March 29, 2009 - 3 PM at the Anna Maria Ciccone Theatre of Bergen
Community College, 400 Paramus Road in Paramus, New Jersey. Special
guest artist will be soprano Lorraine Ernest.

This program will feature the World Premiere of a new work commissioned
by the Palisades Virtuosi from Melinda Wagner, winner of the 1999
Pulitzer Prize in Music. Other works to be performed include Baroque
Suite for flute, clarinet and piano by Elizabeth Raum, Jennifer Higdon’s
DASH for flute, clarinet and piano, Concertino for flute and piano by
Cecile Chaminade, Trio by Madeleine Dring for flute, clarinet
[originally oboe] and piano, Elisabetta DeGambarini’s (1731-1765) Minuet
and 3 Variations from "Lessons for the Harpsichord" [1748], three songs
by Amy Beach, featuring soprano Lorraine Ernest and Victoria Bond’s II -
The Venus Flytrap and VII - Ragweed from "Peculiar Plants" for solo piano.

Tickets for the March 29 concert are $14 and $12 for students and
seniors. For reservations or more information, please call the Ciccone
Theatre at 201-447-7428 or visit them online at
http://tickets.bergen.edu/. You can also email reservation requests to
the Palisades Virtuosi at virtuosi@-----.

Funding for this concert is made possible in part by the Alice M. Ditson
Fund of Columbia University and the NJ State Council on the
Arts/Department of State, through grant funds administered by the Bergen
County Dept. of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs.

Melinda Wagner’s works have been performed by the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, Denver Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra,
National Orchestra of Colombia, New York New Music Ensemble, Syracuse
Society for New Music, the Contemporary Chamber Players, and Orchestra
2001. She has been honored with a Guggenheim fellowship, grants from the
Illinois Arts Council and Meet the Composer, Inc., three ASCAP Young
Composer awards, and resident fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and
Yaddo. Her Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion won the 1999
Pulitzer Prize for Music. More about her at
http://www.presser.com/Composers/info.cfm?Name=MELINDAWAGNER.

The Palisades Virtuosi, consisting of flutist Margaret Swinchoski,
clarinetist Donald Mokrynski and pianist Ron Levy, is a 501 (c)(3)
organization established to promote and enrich the repertoire for flute,
clarinet and piano and present concerts that include existing and
newly-commissioned repertoire for this configuration (each of their
concerts includes a work commissioned by the ensemble), supplemented by
solos, duos and larger works featuring guest artists. Volumes One and
Two of their New American Masters CD series are available from Albany
Records. Visit them at http://www.palisadesvirtuosi.org/. For photos of
the ensemble, visit
http://www.palisadesvirtuosi.org/Downloadable%20photos.html.

For other press inquiries about the Palisades Virtuosi, 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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