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ARTS ENSEMBLE
Meridian Arts Ensemble, America’s leading brass group,
is a multiple winner of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America
Adventurous Programming Award. The group explores music of
today, while keeping the traditions of classical music alive
from a contemporary sensibility. This sextet of five brass
players and a percussionist consistently attracts and appeals to
a diverse audience base. Billboard Magazine stated they are
“more exciting all the time.” The Los Angeles Times
described its “… near symphonic richness.” The Washington
Post noted its
“extraordinary command” and composer, electric guitarist Frank
Zappa said, “ Go and see them.”...
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Friday, October 14, 2011 |
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TRIO
Widely regarded as the premier piano trio of its
generation, the Claremont Trio is sought after for its
thrillingly virtuosic and richly communicative performances. The
only piano trio over to win the young Concert Artists
International Auditions, the Claremont Trio is consistently
lauded for its “aesthetic maturity, interpretive depth, and
exuberance.” The trio’s most recent CD received a Critic’s
Choice award from BBC Magazine, which cited it as “splendidly
enjoyable” and “real intensity through eloquent phrasing and
responsive teamwork.”
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7:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 24, 2012 |
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SHIFRIN
Renowned clarinetist David Shifrin is in constant
demand as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber music
collaborator. He has received critical acclaim as a recitalist,
appearing at such venues as Alice Tully hall and Weill Recital
hall at Carnegie hall. He has served as principal clarinetist
with the Cleveland Orchestra and American Symphony Orchestra,
and collaborates frequently with such distinguished ensembles
and artists as the Guarneri, Tokyo, and Emerson String Quartets,
Wynton Marsalis, and pianists Emanuel Ax and André Watts.
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7:30 p.m., Friday, February 17, 2012 |
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AMARCORD
Ensemble Amarcord has become one of the world’s leading
vocal ensembles. Amarcord performs a vast and highly diverse
repertoire of music, from medieval plainsong to madrigals and
Renaissance masses, to compositions and cycles of works of the
European Romantic period and the 20th century, a cappella
folksong arrangements collected from all over the world, all the
way to rock, pop, soul and jazz charts. One of Ensemble
Amarcord’s CDs received the ECHO Klassik Award, the
Luxembourgian Supersonic Award, and the Contemporary A Cappella
Recording Award.
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7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 31, 2012 |
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MARSALIS GROUP
Jason Marsalis is well-known for his prodigal drumming.
With his father Ellis Marsalis and older brothers Wynton,
Branford and Delfeayo, the Marsalis family comprise New Orleans’
venerable first family of jazz. Since 2000, Jason has been a
mainstay on the new Orleans scene as a bandleader from the
vibraphone. Jason Marsalis performs original music as well as
many hidden gems in the jazz literature and beyond. Jason
Marsalis has been named the National Endowment for the Arts
Honorary Jazz Master. This concert is part of the 51st Annual
Mid-South Jazz Festival.
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