Marie Gullard, correspondent for the Washington Examiner wrote, “In this season’s touring Christmas program, ‘Wassail, Wassail!’” (The Baltimore Consort) “will play music they have never recorded, in a configuration they have never done before. ‘The group offers a lively, eclectic mix of early music on instruments that tickle the fancy and please the ear,’ the [...]
The Colorado Quartet’s latest CD is now available on Parnassus Records. This disc contains composer Katherine Hoover’s First and Second String Quartets, which were written for the quartet. Also last year saw the release of the Colorado Quartet performing ‘Meta4′ by Robert Xavier Rodriquez on Albany Records. The final installment of the complete Beethoven quartets [...]
The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is excited to announce that its December 2, 3, 4 and 5 New York Season features the Company’s first collaboration with the celebrated Ahn Trio. For this ground-breaking concert, to be performed at the Harlem School of the Arts Theater, Nai-Ni Chen will present an evening of premieres of contemporary [...]
Monica Huggett, Baroque Violin
The Metropolitan Museum announces its upcoming April 3rd event: “Before the defeat of the Moors and the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, Spain was a land of three cultures, boasting a rich musical heritage of traditional Spanish cancioneros (songbooks), Sephardic songs, and the Moorish-inflected music of the (lute composers). The Baltimore Consort, featuring countertenor [...]
The BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown, MD is presenting one of North Americas premiere baroque ensembles, Musica Pacifica, on November 14th. This ensemble has been lauded not only for its technical virtuosity, but also for its vivacious spontaneity in performance. Led by its acclaimed recorder player, Judith Linsenberg, Musica Pacifica’s stylish, high-energy performances [...]
In an article for South Georgia College Robert Preston, Jr. announced that the Georgia Guitar Quartet, “one of the most innovative voices on today’s music scene,” will be in concert on November 2nd at Peterson Hall. “The GGQ delivers a high energy blend of breath-taking virtuosity and imaginative programming while taking an adventurous approach to [...]
The BOREALIS QUINTET is HERE with the WIND and PIANIST LEON BATES… The Connecticut Post of Bridgeport reported on October 20 that the Borealis Wind Quintet and pianist Leon Bates will return to Danbury on Sunday for a performance at Ives Concert Hall on the midtown campus of Western Connecticut State French horn—have won numerous [...]
Milan Turkovic, known as one of the world’s greatest bassoonist will now be known as a winner of the Echo award (the European Grammy) for conducting. The event takes place at the Philharmonie Essen (Germany) in a televised gala. Turkovic will be honored on October 17 for his most recent CD as conductor of the [...]
The music of the celebrated Cuban composer and conductor Tania León will be performed at a festival in her native island for the first time ever this week. It has taken 43 years, but León, a distinguished professor at Brooklyn College who heads the school’s composition studies department, has been officially invited to Havana, where [...]