Archive for October, 2010

Georgia Guitar Quartet Coming to South Georgia College

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 [...]

Here with the Wind

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 Wins the Echo Klassik Award for Conducting

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 [...]

Tania León’s Music to Be Played in Her Native Cuba for First Time

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 [...]