Hartt Presents The New York Woodwind Quartet 4/7
By: Gabrielle Sierra Mar. 25, 2011
The Hartt School, the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford, is pleased to present New York Woodwind Quintet for the final concert in the 2010-2011 Richard P. Garmany Chamber Music Series on Thursday evening, April 7, 2011, at 7:30 PM, in Millard Auditorium, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. Individual concert tickets are $30 with discounts on for seniors, educators, University of Hartford alumni, students, and groups.
A special pre-concert dinner precedes the performance and begins at 6:00 PM in the University's 1877 Club. Dinner tickets are $39 each. To purchase individual tickets or to get additional information, please call the University of Hartford Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587. To purchase tickets online, please visit www.hartford.edu/hartt. Celebrating its 60th year, the New York Woodwind Quintet is one of chamber music's most honored and venerable ensembles. Each of the Quintet's members is an established artist in his or her own right and the group's bassoonist, Marc Goldberg, is a long-time member of the Hartt faculty. The New York Woodwind Quintet also includes Carol Wincenc, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; Charles Neidich, clarinet; and William Purvis, horn. "For more than half a century, this group has defined great wind playing..." - The New YorkerMembers of the New York Woodwind Quintet will interact with Hartt students throughout the day during master classes and also at a post-concert reception, which is open to all concert attendees.For sixty seasons, the New York Woodwind Quintet has maintained an active performance schedule in the United States and abroad while also teaching the next generation of woodwind performers. The Quintet has commissioned and premiered more than 20 compositions, some of which have become classics of the woodwind repertoire. They include Samuel Barber's Summer Music, and quintets by Gunther Schuller, Ezra Laderman, William Bergsma, Alec Wilder, William Sydeman, Wallingford Riegger, Jon Deak, and Yehudi Wyner. The Quintet has featured many of these in recordings for such labels as Boston Skyline, Bridge, New World Records, and Nonesuch. The Quintet's members also honor the legacy of departed members, including the late Samuel Baron, by continuing to perform his transcriptions of works such as Bach's Art of the Fugue and the Scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the late Ronald Roseman, by performing his Wind Quintet No. 2 and Sextet for Piano and Winds, which was dedicated to the New York Woodwind Quintet and completed just before he died. Current NYWQ members flutist Carol Wincenc, clarinetist Charles Neidich, oboist Stephen Taylor, bassoonist Marc Goldberg, and French hornist William Purvis, all internationally recognized performers and teachers, continue the Quintet's now 15 year long residency at The Juilliard School, where they present eight seminars each year for student woodwind quintets, teach individual students, and give regular coaching sessions. For more information and to read individual bios please visit www.nywq.org.
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