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Quintet at Treetops on May 10-11 GREENWICH-STAMFORD, Connecticut, April 23, 2008 — The TREETOPS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY presents the NEW YORK WOODWIND QUINTET, at 6 PM, on Saturday, May 10, and at 4 PM, on Sunday, May 11, at The Treetops Studio. The program includes the J. S. BACH Three Fugues from the Art of the Fugue; FINE Partita; CARTER Quintet; SAMMOUTIS Metallaxis; NIELSEN Quintet. The concert is preceded by a walk at the historic Treetops grounds and followed by a free reception with the artists. The Treetops Studio, with a maximum capacity of 80, is an intimate space with outstanding acoustics, which offers an ideal setting to listen to chamber music. Treetops audiences are familiar with this all-Juilliard-faculty wind quintet since the Treetops Chamber Music Society was inaugurated in the fall of 2006 with their performance. For almost 60 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 over 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. All concerts at The Treetops Studio, 359 Merriebrook Ln. (off Westover Rd.), in Stamford, CT. Tickets are $25-32 for subscribers; single tickets are $40; single tickets for the Young Artists Concert are $20; discounts for students and families are available. For more information, please call (203) 979-6051 / 6052, or log on to www.treetopscms.org. ##### This Release as a Word File ##### CALENDAR: APRIL 2008 • TREETOPS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY, 359 Merriebrook Ln., 979-6051. Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 4 p.m. April 5-6, Met Orchestra Quintet, Haendel: Harp Concerto Op. 4, No. 6; Bruckner: String Quartet in C minor; Debussy: Dances for Harp and Strings; Dvorak: String Quintet in G Major, Op. 77. • TREETOPS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY, at UConn Stamford Schreiber Reading Room, 979-6051. Fri. from 10 a.m. April 11, Finals of the J. C. Arriaga Chamber Music Competition. • TREETOPS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY, 359 Merriebrook Ln., 979-6051. Sat. 6 p.m. April 12, Winners Concert of the J. C. Arriaga Chamber Music Competition, Program TBA. • TREETOPS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY, 359 Merriebrook Ln., 979-6051. Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 4 p.m. April 26-27, Shanghai Quartet, Turina: Bullfighter’s Prayer; Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115; Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor “Death and the Maiden”. MAY 2008 • TREETOPS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY, 359 Merriebrook Ln., 979-6051. Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 4 p.m. May 10-11, New York Woodwind Quintet, Bach: Three Fugues from the Art of the Fugue; Fine: Partita; Carter: Quintet; Sammoutis: Metallaxis; Nielsen: Quintet. JUNE 2008 • TREETOPS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY, Port Fjord, Cos Cob, 979-6051. Sun. 11:15 a.m. June 8, “Don’t Miss The Boat!”, a fundraiser to benefit Treetops CMS, including all its music and nature programs for children, young artists and the community, including Brunch, a Cruise, and Music on the Sound. |
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