in partnership with QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS presents a free concert

221-15 Horace Harding Boulevard, Bayside, Queens, NY

a concert-tea

with Queens composer Gaudencio Thiago de Mello

featuring an introductionto the instruments of the Amazon with Gaudencio Thiago de Mello on organic percussion

Canto da Yara
Chants to the Chief #10
A Hug for Pixinga
Varre-Vento
Choro Alegre
Ernesto Nazareth: Odeon, Brejeiro, Escorregando
Scott Joplin: Ragtime Dance, Maple Leaf Rag

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department For the Aging. This concert is also made possible with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Funding is also provided by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional funding comes from 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,, Shigeru Kaneshiro, and the Henry Luce Foundation. With special thanks to the Hon. Frank Padavan, NYS Senator; the Hon. Helen Marshall, Borough President of Queens; and the Queens Delegation to the New York City Council.

at Loewe Auditorium, 35 West 4th Street, New York University

This concert takes place during Quintet's New York University Summer Institute for Woodwind Quintets for high school and college students.

Admission is free.

Program will include:

Eric Ewazen: Roaring Fork (1997)
Miguel del Aguila: Quintet No. 2
Xinyan Li: Mo Suo's Burial Ceremony (premiere)
Elliott Carter: Quintet

To see more about these composers go to Eric Ewazen, Miguel del Aguila, Xinyan Li, Elliott Carter

This 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://education.nyu.edu/music/summer.html

in the Black Box Theater, 35 West 4th Street, New York University

This concert takes place during Quintet's New York University Summer Institute for Woodwind Quintets for high school and college students.

Admission is free.

A workshop with composer Marc-Antonio Consoli

and premiere of

Marc-Antonio Consoli: Varie Azioni V
(commissioned by Quintet of the Americas with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts)

This 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://education.nyu.edu/music/summer.html

47-01 111th St., Queens, NY 11368. 718.699.0005. Located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Celebrating Earth Day and "Invention and Play" - A program for families

Playing with found materials the quintet will demonstrate how to recycle materials from our environment to make instruments which can mimic sounds in nature. The Quintet will play Heitor Villa-Lobos' Os pombinhos (The Doves), William Grant Still's Frog Went A-Courtin', 3rd movement, Var. VIII from Carl Nielsen's Quintet, Becky Steltzer's Hambani Kakuhle Kwela, Soong Fu-Yuan'sFlower Drum Song. The Quintet will lead the audience in a Jungle Improvisation using Native and homemade instruments with participants on stage.
http://www.nyhallsci.org/

Pleasantville Chamber Music Society

Pleasantville Presbyterian Church

400 Bedford Road
Pleasantville, NY

Admission is free.

Program:

Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Summer Music (1956) by Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Colombian Dances
El Picaflor (porro) by José Barros (b.1915) arr. F. Zumaque G.
Te sorprende? (pasillo) J by orge Olaya Muñoz (1916-1995)
-Intermission-
Wind Quintet, Op. 43 (1922) by Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Tournament Galop (1851) by Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) arr. R. W. Tucker

in partnership with QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS presents a free concert

221-15 Horace Harding Boulevard, Bayside, Queens, NY

a concert-tea

in celebration of the 80th birthday of Douglaston composer James Cohn

Muskrat Ramble Edward "Kid" Ory (arr. J.Cohn)
Mozart Fantasy, Op. 91 James Cohn
Arkansas Reel James Cohn
My Funny Valentine Richard Rogers
Strutting Butterflies James Cohn
The Carolina Shout James P. Johnson (arr. Cohn)
Fiesta Latina (2006) James Cohn
Yardbird Suite Charlie Parker (arr. E. Cionek)
III. Allegro non troppo from Quintet for Winds (1961) James Cohn

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department For the Aging. This concert is also made possible with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Funding is also provided by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional funding comes from 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,, Shigeru Kaneshiro, and the Henry Luce Foundation. With special thanks to the Hon. Frank Padavan, NYS Senator; the Hon. Helen Marshall, Borough President of Queens; and the Queens Delegation to the New York City Council.

100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, Queens

FREE Admission - for more information please call (718) 651-1100

"African Impact"

Joseph Shabalala: Mbube - "Nansi Imali" (There's Money) arr.Adam Lesnick
Carl MaultsBy: Still Rockin' In Jerusalem
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: A Ba Boleki Nwana! arr. Lesnick
Antonin Dvorak: Goin Home from the New World Symphony arr. Matt Sullivan
Fela Sowande: Obangiji arr. Lesnick
William Grant Still: Jesus Is a Rock in A Weary Land
Edward "Kid" Ory: Muskrat Ramble arr. James Cohn

Akin Euba: Wind Quintet
Paquito D'Rivera: Afro from Aires Tropicales
James P. Johnson: Carolina Shout arr. James Cohn
Charlie Parker: Yardbird Suite arr. Ed Cionek
Becky Steltzner: Hambani Kakuhle Kwela

This concert is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Funding is also provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, JPMorgan Chase /Meet the Composer Regrant Program for Small Ensembles, The Carnegie Corporation of New York , and the Music Performance Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. With special thanks to NYS Senator the Hon. Frank Padavan, and the Hon. Helen M. Marshall, Borough President of Queens. Quintet of the Americas is in residence in The Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University.

41-17 Main St, Flushing, NY 11355-1200

for more information call (718) 661-1200 http://www.queenslibrary.org

fefeaturing new works by composers Xinyan Li and Gaudencio Thiago de Mello

with guest artist Gaudencio Thiago de Mello, organic percussion

With Guest Composer Xinyan Li

Xinyan Li is currently a doctoral student studying at University of Missouri-Kansas City under composers Chen Yi, James Mobberley, Zhou Long, and Paul Rudy. Miss Li earned her Bachelor's and Master's degree at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1999 and 2002, where she studied under composers Jin Xiang and Yang Tong Ba. Xinyan Li attended Aspen Music Festival and School in 2005 and 2006 as a Susan and Ford Schumann Composition Fellow where she studied with George Tsontakis. In 2007, she attended Nevada Encounters of New Music, Midwest Graduate Music Consortium's 11th Annual Conference, and SCI Region VI Conference. Awards include the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award, an honorable mention from the Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Competition and the Libby Larsen Prize from International Alliance of Women in Music. Xinyan Li's music has been performed by the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Bergen Woodwind Quintet, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Principal Woodwind Quintet, the Chengdu International Contemporary Festival and Composer's Forum, the East Coast Composers Ensemble, the Chicago New Music Ensemble, and the UMKC Music Nova Ensemble. Xinyan Li's music is "fresh, musical and dramatic; it's from her heart."

Celebrating the Human Spirit "

Program will include:
Concerto No. 2 after Vivaldi (originally for organ) arranged for wind quintet by Mordechai Rechtman
Zurisee from Foyveblas by Paul Douglas
In Heaven from Quintet No. 2 by Miguel del Aguila
Mo Suos Burial Ceremony (2006) (New York premiere) by Xinyan Li
Ventos (2007) (commissioned by Quintet of the Americas) by Ricardo Romaneiro
Suite of Brazilian Songs by Gaudencio Thiago de Mello

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 Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Meet the Composer / JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Ensembles, and The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation.With 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.

Quintet of the Americas is in residence in The Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University.