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New York Composers Circle Music for Soprano, Strings and Piano Concert on April 22 at Manhattan’s Saint Peter’s Church at Citigroup Center

April 18, 2014
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net

New York, NY – New York Composers Circle will present Music for Soprano, Strings and Piano, a concert of new works by NYCC members on Tuesday, April 22 at 8:00 PM at Saint Peter’s Church at Citigroup Center - Lexington Avenue and 54th Street in Manhattan.

Works to be performed are Carl Kanter’s Quintet for Piano and Strings, Emiko Hayashi’s Continuous Strand of Twisted Threads for string trio, Jonathan Howard Katz’s Crescit eundo (2012), for violin, viola, cello, and piano, Jacob E. Goodman’s Variationen G-Dur, für Klavier, Violine, und Violoncello, Eugene Marlow’s Undiminshed for string quintet, Matt Weber’s Gemstones for string quartet and Richard D. Russell’s The Rose Cycle for soprano and string quartet. Information about the composers can be found at http://nycomposerscircle.org/category/composer-bios/.

Performers will be the Bleecker String Quartet (Bleecker StQ) – violinists Machiko Ozawa and Lynn Bechtold, violist Edmundo Ramírez and cellist Jisoo Ok (http://bleeckerstringquartet.com/) – with bassist Troy Rinker, soprano Sofia Dimitrova and pianist Yvonne Troxler.

The April 22 concert is free, however, a $20 donation is suggested, payable at the door. For more information, call 212-787-8309 or visit http://nycomposerscircle.org/. For public transit information, visit http://tripplanner.mta.info/MyTrip/ui_web/customplanner/tripplanner.aspx. All NYCC concerts are ADA accessible.

The New York Composers Circle is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, artistic and educational organization dedicated to new music — its creation, its performance, and the development of new audiences. Its members and supporters are composers, performers, and music lovers. Its activities include concerts of new music (currently four each season), monthly salons at which composers play and discuss new works and works in progress for fellow members and guests and hear talks by various members of the new-music community, an annual competition open only to nonmembers, and a program of outreach concerts to benefit the broader community and to attract new concert audiences. Much more about them at http://nycomposerscircle.org/about/.

For photos and other press inquiries about NYCC, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.

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