New York Composers Circle Presents Italy’s Namaste Clarinet Quintet - A Concert of New Music on January 10 @ Manhattan’s Church of the Transfiguration

New York Composers Circle, celebrating its 20^th Anniversary season, will present Namaste Clarinet Quintet, a concert of new music performed by the Perugia, Italy-based ensemble, on Tuesday, January 10 at 7:00 PM at Church of the Transfiguration (“Little Church Around the Corner”), 1 East 29th Street in Manhattan.

The program will include World Premieres of David See’s Suite for Clarinet Quintet and Gayther Myer’s Poem in October and the U.S. Premieres of Timothy L. Miller’s Circus Minimus, Anton Rovner’s Lamento, Robert S. Cohen’s Variants and David Mecionis’s Two Table Canons for Two Clarinetists. Also featured will be the New York Premieres of Todd Mason’s Echoes of the Heart and Hubert Howe’s Inharmonic Fantasy No. 15 for bass clarinet and fixed media. 

Performers will be the Namaste Clarinet Quintet - Guido Arbonelli, Natalia Benedetti, Mattia Bellini, Letizia Rossi and Valentina Betti Sorbelli, who will all travel to New York especially for this concert.

Tickets for the January 10 concert are $20, available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nycc-presents-namaste-clarinet-quintet-guido-arbonelli-special-guests-tickets-422857146107, or at the door. Seniors are $15 and students are free.

The concert will also be livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYABBmgKtxg9bLk0ly6NXuQ.

For more information, call 201-675-7096 or visit https://newyorkcomposerscircle.org/. This concert is ADA accessible. For MTA transportation information, visit http://tripplanner.mta.info/MyTrip/ui_web/customplanner/TripPlanner.aspx.