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Piano Music of James Cohn on February 7 at Community Church of Douglaston
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net
Two works by Queens-based composer James Cohn will be presented by pianist Frank Levy on Sunday, February 7 – 4:00 PM at The Community Church of Douglaston, 39-50 Douglaston Parkway in Douglaston, New York.
Mr. Levy (http://www.franklevy.com/) will perform Mr. Cohn’s Variations on Muskrat Ramble and Nine Miniatures for Piano, along with Schubert's "Trout“ Quintet (with accompanying artists) and other selections.
For tickets and more information, contact the Community Church at 718-229-2169 or visit them at http://douglastonconcerts.org/index.html.
New York-based James Cohn has written solo, chamber, choral and orchestral works. He was awarded a Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Prize for his Symphony No. 2 (premiered at Brussels) and an A.I.D.E.M. prize for his Symphony No. 4 (premiered in Florence at the Maggio Musicale). Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony introduced the composer's Symphony No. 3 and Variations on "The Wayfaring Stranger", and his opera The Fall of the City received its premiere in Athens, Ohio after winning the Ohio University Opera Award. Naxos has released internationally a CD of his Symphonies No. 2 and No. 7, along with his Variations on “The Wayfaring Stranger” and Waltz in D - http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559376.
He has had many performances of his choral and chamber music, and world-wide use of his music commissioned for television and cinema. Commissions for other works have come from The McKim Fund in the Library of Congress (for the Concerto da camera for Violin, Piano and Wind Quintet), Pennsylvania's "Music At Gretna" festival (for the Mount Gretna Suite, for chamber orchestra), Jon Manasse (for the Concerto No. 1 for Clarinet and Strings), Mirian Conti (for the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra) and Jeffrey Silberschlag (for the Concerto for Trumpet and Strings) and Claribel (the Belgian 30-piece clarinet ensemble) (for the 3-movement suite Caprice). You can find more of his music on XLNT Music at http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Label?&label_id=1257. Visit him at http://www.jamesarts.com/CohnBio0202.htm.
For more about James Cohn, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net
Two works by Queens-based composer James Cohn will be presented by pianist Frank Levy on Sunday, February 7 – 4:00 PM at The Community Church of Douglaston, 39-50 Douglaston Parkway in Douglaston, New York.
Mr. Levy (http://www.franklevy.com/) will perform Mr. Cohn’s Variations on Muskrat Ramble and Nine Miniatures for Piano, along with Schubert's "Trout“ Quintet (with accompanying artists) and other selections.
For tickets and more information, contact the Community Church at 718-229-2169 or visit them at http://douglastonconcerts.org/index.html.
New York-based James Cohn has written solo, chamber, choral and orchestral works. He was awarded a Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Prize for his Symphony No. 2 (premiered at Brussels) and an A.I.D.E.M. prize for his Symphony No. 4 (premiered in Florence at the Maggio Musicale). Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony introduced the composer's Symphony No. 3 and Variations on "The Wayfaring Stranger", and his opera The Fall of the City received its premiere in Athens, Ohio after winning the Ohio University Opera Award. Naxos has released internationally a CD of his Symphonies No. 2 and No. 7, along with his Variations on “The Wayfaring Stranger” and Waltz in D - http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559376.
He has had many performances of his choral and chamber music, and world-wide use of his music commissioned for television and cinema. Commissions for other works have come from The McKim Fund in the Library of Congress (for the Concerto da camera for Violin, Piano and Wind Quintet), Pennsylvania's "Music At Gretna" festival (for the Mount Gretna Suite, for chamber orchestra), Jon Manasse (for the Concerto No. 1 for Clarinet and Strings), Mirian Conti (for the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra) and Jeffrey Silberschlag (for the Concerto for Trumpet and Strings) and Claribel (the Belgian 30-piece clarinet ensemble) (for the 3-movement suite Caprice). You can find more of his music on XLNT Music at http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Label?&label_id=1257. Visit him at http://www.jamesarts.com/CohnBio0202.htm.
For more about James Cohn, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.
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