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Quintet of the Americas Concerts in Bayside, Jackson Hghts, Jamaica, Queens
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net
New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas, in collaboration with the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens, will give three Queens concerts of music of the Americas on Monday, January 25 - 10:00 AM at Catholic Charities Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horace Harding Boulevard in Bayside and on Tuesday, January 26 – 11:00 AM at the Salvation Army Center of Queens, 86-07 35th Avenue in Jackson Heights and at 1:00 PM that same day at Community Mediation Services, 89-64 163rd Street in Jamaica.
The programs will include music from Puerto Rico, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela and tangos from Argentina. Special pieces will also include Leonard Bernstein's Danzón, the Cuban dance from his ballet Fancy Free and Jimenez Suite for Wind Quintet by former Queens resident Charles Griffin, based on poems by the Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez. Other featured composers will be Paquito D'Rivera, Astor Piazzolla and Carlos Gardel. Quintet oboist Matt Sullivan will be featured in Marsias, an unusual piece for solo oboe and tuned water glasses by the internationally known Mexican composer Mario Lavista.
Special guest will be tango song specialist Chris Vasquez, an actor and singer based in NYC who specializes in the singing of tangos, especially the songs of Carlos Gardel, Anibal Triolo and Astor Piazzolla. He has sung in Colombia and Argentina and in cities in the United States. Recognized at the NY Argentine Consulate as the "Best Singer" in the New York International Tango Competition, he was also a finalist at the Medellin International Tango Festival in Colombia. Visit him at http://www.myspace.com/chrisvasquezmusic.
All three of these concerts are free and open to the public.
Members of Quintet of the Americas are Sato Moughalian, flute; Matt Sullivan, oboe; Nicholas Gallas, clarinet; Barbara Oldham, horn; and Maureen Strenge, bassoon. Founded in Bogota, Colombia in 1976, the Quintet has specialized in bringing music from 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. They are 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.
This program is sponsored with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional funds provided by The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund and The Carnegie Corporation of New York.
For press inquires or photos, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net. All Quintet of the Americas concerts are ADA accessible.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net
New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas, in collaboration with the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens, will give three Queens concerts of music of the Americas on Monday, January 25 - 10:00 AM at Catholic Charities Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horace Harding Boulevard in Bayside and on Tuesday, January 26 – 11:00 AM at the Salvation Army Center of Queens, 86-07 35th Avenue in Jackson Heights and at 1:00 PM that same day at Community Mediation Services, 89-64 163rd Street in Jamaica.
The programs will include music from Puerto Rico, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela and tangos from Argentina. Special pieces will also include Leonard Bernstein's Danzón, the Cuban dance from his ballet Fancy Free and Jimenez Suite for Wind Quintet by former Queens resident Charles Griffin, based on poems by the Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez. Other featured composers will be Paquito D'Rivera, Astor Piazzolla and Carlos Gardel. Quintet oboist Matt Sullivan will be featured in Marsias, an unusual piece for solo oboe and tuned water glasses by the internationally known Mexican composer Mario Lavista.
Special guest will be tango song specialist Chris Vasquez, an actor and singer based in NYC who specializes in the singing of tangos, especially the songs of Carlos Gardel, Anibal Triolo and Astor Piazzolla. He has sung in Colombia and Argentina and in cities in the United States. Recognized at the NY Argentine Consulate as the "Best Singer" in the New York International Tango Competition, he was also a finalist at the Medellin International Tango Festival in Colombia. Visit him at http://www.myspace.com/chrisvasquezmusic.
All three of these concerts are free and open to the public.
Members of Quintet of the Americas are Sato Moughalian, flute; Matt Sullivan, oboe; Nicholas Gallas, clarinet; Barbara Oldham, horn; and Maureen Strenge, bassoon. Founded in Bogota, Colombia in 1976, the Quintet has specialized in bringing music from 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. They are 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.
This program is sponsored with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional funds provided by The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund and The Carnegie Corporation of New York.
For press inquires or photos, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net. All Quintet of the Americas concerts are ADA accessible.
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