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Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 7:30 PM
A FREE concert at the Salvation Army Center in Jackson Heights, Queens

	86-07 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights, NY Join us for the last family concert of the Quintet's Chamber Music America Residency! Program: Serenata by Carlos Franzetti Freeing the Caged Bird by Barbara Harbach Baion de Bayo by Michael Colina Wapango by Paquito D'Rivera Pra dormir na rede by Gaudencio Thiago de Mello Dance of Praise by James Cohn Dances from Colombian and Cuba and tangos from Argentina All our concerts are ADA accessible

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Friday, June 26, 2009 at 7:30 PM
New York University

	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: Mark Dancigers: commission (2009) Nicholas Scarim: Garden At Night More music TBA 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

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SOUNDS OF BRAZIL

The Quintet announces the release of its exciting new recording, SOUNDS OF BRAZIL, on the MSR label. The music includes choros, lullabies and songs by Gaudencio Thiago de Mello who performs with the Quintet on his unique organic percussion from the Amazon. Thiago plays with the Quintet on works by Ernesto Nazareth and Pixinguinha as well. The Quintet is proud to include Changes, a work they commissioned by Brazilian-American pianist and composer Marcelo Zarvos. Rounding out the CD is Ventos, another Quintet commission by a gifted young composer on the New York scene, Ricardo Romaneiro. Guest artists include Blair McMillen on piano and Scott Kuney on guitar.

Featured composer

Nicholas Scarim

Nicholas Scarim grew up in Chicago and attended the Chicago Musical College. He moved to New York in 1977, and in 1979 his opera Sumidagawa, based on the Noh drama, was developed by Yale’s Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and subsequently premiered by the Opera Company of Philadelphia. He has had ballets, operas, film scores, chamber, and orchestral works commissioned and performed by numerous American orchestras and opera companies. His work has been performed at Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Town Hall in New York City. “A Simple Melody,” commissioned by Carnegie Hall, has been performed there by the American Composers Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s for eight seasons, and by 14 other orchestras across the US and Canada. He has taught composition at the Third Street Music School in New York since 1979.

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NYS Summer Institute

A week with the Quintet at New York University for College and High School Students

June 21-June 27, 2009

Spend a week in New York City with Quintet of the Americas preparing several woodwind quintets for performance. This is a chance to work intensively on chamber music while playing with and being coached by a member of the Quintet. There are also three master classes, information on music as a business and tips for your career in music.

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The Quintet on CD

SOUNDS OF BRAZIL on the MSR Label

Karel Husa Recollections on the New World Records label.

Dancing in Colombia on the MSR Label - 15 Colombian dances including bambucos, pasillos, bundes and paseos.

Self Portrait on the CRI label - avant garde music for Quintet including works by Pauline Oliveros, Elliot Sharp, Amy Rubin, Christopher Culpo and Lee Hyla

Discovering the New World on the MMC label - music from the Carnegie Hall Concert (Louis Ballard, William Thomas McKinley, Roberto Sierra, and "America (Suite Popular)" - Ilan Rechtman).

Souvenirs, 20 Musical Mementos from the New World on the XLNT label - Samuel Barber's "Summer Music" and many Quintet favorites.

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