The Alturas Duo Wins CMA/ASCAP Award For Adventurous Programming

The Alturas Duo, comprised of Hartt Community Division Faculty Members Carlos Boltes, viola, and Scott Hill, guitar, are recipients of the 2010 Chamber Music America/American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Award for Adventurous Programming. The Duo will be presented the Award at the Chamber Music America National Conference in New York City on Sunday, January 17, 2010.

Boltes and Hill are former Hartt graduate students. Each completed four years of graduate study at Hartt. First each completed a degree, on viola and guitar respectively, during which time they formed the duo, then they participated in a two year graduate chamber music residency program, working with the members of the Emerson and Miami String Quartets.

The CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming are presented annually to ensembles and presenter/festivals that have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to 20th- and 21st-century music, especially works written in the past 25 years. These awards are given jointly by Chamber Music America and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. For more information visit www.chamber-music.org.

The Hartt School is the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford that offers innovative degree programs in music, dance, and theatre. With more than 400 concerts, recitals, plays, master classes, dance performances, and musical theatre productions a year, performance is central to Hartt's curriculum. For more information on The Hartt School, visit www.hartford.edu/hartt.

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