Quintet of the Americas will be performing at the Robert E. Lee High School, 1200 North Coalter Street,  in Staunton, VA on Saturday, Nov.4 at 7:30PM.  

For more information call 917-488-6083

The Quintet will perform on their collection of South American and native American instruments featuring a rainstick from the Amazon, a conch shell, deer hoof rattles, A Sioux ceremonial drum, the Sioux courtship flute, pitos and whistles and cane flutes. They will also perform some of the masterpieces of the traditional woodwind quintet literature.

The program will include

Overture to "Candide" by Leonard BernsteinSummer Music by Samuel BarberTwo Colombian Dances    Picaflor by Jose Barros    Te Sorprende? by Jorge Olaya MunozQuintette en forme de Choros by Heitor Villa-LobosMiniatures by William Grant StillArkansas Reel by James Cohn"Summertime" from Porgy and Bess by George GershwinCarolina Shout by James P. JohnsonThe Soul by Louis W. BallardYardbird Suite by Charlie ParkerTournament Galop by Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Douglaston Concerts first Sunday series

Community Church of Douglaston

39-50 Douglaston PKWY, Douglaston, NY 11363 Phone: 718 229 2169

Adults: $25 Seniors: $20 Students: $5

Featuring works by 2  Mozarts,  a  premiere by Douglaston resident James Cohn and

a piano wind sextet by film composer Marcelo Zarvos

Program:

W.A. Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds, K. 452 (1784)      

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri's Sonatina for Flute and  Piano (1947)   
premiere of  James Cohn's Mozart Fantasy, Op. 91 (2006)
Marcelo Zarvos' Changes (2003) for Woodwind Quintet and Piano

(commisioned by Quintet of the Americas with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency)

Since its beginning in 1976, QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS has been recognized as a leading ensemble in the interpretation of contemporary and folk-inspired wind quintet music of the Western Hemisphere. The New York Times said “the Quintet played splendidly, full of life, balancing voices with care, confident in its sense of togetherness,” and The Washington Post called their performances “musical dialogue at the highest level.” This concert will feature the Mozart Piano Quintet and a work by Douglaston composer JAMES COHN.

Recently profiled in a front-page New York Times article and praised for his “riveting” and “prodigiously accomplished and exciting” performances.BLAIR McMILLEN has established himself as one of today’s most adventurous and sought-after young pianists.

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.

Remembering 9/11 WNYC News Special Tune in Monday at 8:30am on AM 820

The Quintet of the Americas is honored to be playing again this year for the 9/11 memorial at Gound Zero in New York. The Ceremony will begin at 8:46 when the first tower was hit.  WNYC AM 820 radio will have live, uninterrupted coverage of the fifth anniversary ceremony at the World Trade Center site. Spouses, partners and significant others will read the names of the victims, and four moments of silence will be observed. The Quintet will play as the names are read.

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 wil include:

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Tournement Galop

Roberto Sierra: Salsa para vientos

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931): Wind Quintet, Op. 43 (1922) 

Julia Wolfe: On Seven-Star-Shoes (1985)

Peteris Vasks: Music for a Deceased Friend (1982)

Americas Set

Jorge Olaya Munoz: Te sorprende?

James P. Johnson: Carolina Shout

Paquito D’Rivera: Wapango

37-06 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372 

Program wil include:

Tournament Gallop by Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Amanecer Vallenato (paseo) by Jorge Olaya Muñoz 

August Swale by Beth Anderson

Quintet Op. 43 by Carl Nielsen

I. Allegro ben moderato

II. Menuet

On Seven-Star-Shoes by Julia Wolfe

The Soul by Louis W. Ballard

Wapango by Paquito D’Rivera

Summertime by George Gershwin

The Carolina Shout by James P. Johnson (arr. James Cohn)

Te sorprende? by Jorge Olaya Muñoz   

Bunde Tolimense by Alberto Castilla

Amenecer Vallenato by Jorge Olaya Muñoz

Admission free. Reception to follow

This program is sponsored with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation. Additional funds provided by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the JP Morgan Chase / Meet the Composer Fund for Small Ensembles, The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Music Performance Trust Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. 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. With additional support from the Queens Delegation to the New York State Assembly provided by NYS Assembly Member Hon. Ivan C. Lafayette, Speaker Pro-Tem. The programs of the LACCQ are supported by public funds from the Queens Borough President Office, the New York State Senator Hon. Serphin Maltese; the Queens Delegation to the NYS Assembly and the Puerto Rican Hispanic Task Force, by NYC Council Member Hon. Helen Sears, through the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and by Queens Commissioner of Parks. Corporate, foundation and community supporters include Verizon, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Latino Lawyers Association of Queens County, and the Citizens Committee for New York City. We appreciate their continuous support and generosity.

Quintet of the Americas is in residence in The Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University. Visit the Quintet’s website at www.quintet.org

Quintet of the Americas

at the Flushing Library

The Latin American Cultural Center of Queens presents

a free concert of Quintet of the Americas

at the mediation center

Villa-Lobos: Quintette en forme de choros

Charlie Parker: Yardbird Suite arr. Edmund Cionek

other Latin American and Patriotic works

Symphony Space on March 18
New York, NY - The Quintet of the Americas will be in concert as part of
Wall to Wall Stravinsky during the "Fourth Quarter - Stravinsky's Theatre"
2537 Broadway at 95th Street in Manhattan. The complete event will run from
11 AM to 11 PM.

This concert will feature the complete Quintet of the Americas performing as part of the ensemble for the composer's Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Members of the group will also perform at other parts of the marathon as part of ensembles for Four Songs with flute, harp, and guitar and Pribaoutki - Four songs for medium voice.
This day-long event is free and open to the public. For information, visit http://www.symphonyspace.org/genres/eventPage.php?genreId=1&eventId=1379 or contact Symphony Space at 212-864-5400.