Klarinet Archive - Posting 000059.txt from 2009/06

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas Presents New York University Summer Institute
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:00:38 -0400

June 23, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas Presents New York University Summer Institute
Concert on June 26 – Repertoire Includes Quintets by Tania Leon, Samuel
Barber and Nicholas Scarim

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will be in concert on Friday,
June 26 - 7:30 PM at Loewe Auditorium, 35 West 4th Street on the campus
of New York University. This is presented in connection with their NYU
Summer Institute for Woodwind Quintets for high school and college students.

The program will include Julia Wolfe’s On Seven-Star Shoes, Tania Leon’s
De Memorias, Samuel Barber’s Summer Music, Nicholas Scarim’s Garden at
Night and dances from Latin America. Special guests will be Pascal
Archer, clarinet, Monica Ellis, bassoon and Chris Vasquez, narrator.

This concert is 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.

The June 26 event is free and open to the public. For more information,
call NYU at (212) 998-5424 or visit
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/events/music.

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.

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@-----.

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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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