This country’s most distinguished brass ensemble, the American Brass Quintet seeks to promote brass chamber music as a serious chamber music medium. Founded in 1960, the ABQ musicians continue to enlarge the repertoire for brass quintet by unearthing earlier music, commissioning, performing, and recording new works for brass quintet. ABQ’s 2007-2008 season collaborates with Grammy-winning pianist/composer Billy Childs in a special program featuring his new work for brass quintet and piano. Programs will also include commissions by Joan Tower and David Sampson. The New York State Music Fund has underwritten the commission for the Billy Childs’ piece and also partially supports its performance in the 2007-2008 season within New York State.

Sponsored by MeadWestvaco.

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    Visit the ABQ website at www.americanbrassquintet.org.
    Visit Billy Childs's website at www.billychilds.com

    ABT Studio Company is a small classical company of twelve young dancers of outstanding potential. In its eleventh season, the Studio Company prepares these dancers to enter American Ballet Theatre and provides opportunities for the emergence of new and established choreographers and composers. The dancers are handpicked from around the world by the artistic staff of American Ballet Theatre. Studio Company dancers will train in the program for one or two years before joining American Ballet Theatre’s main company or other leading national and international professional companies.

Sponsored by Time Warner and supported through a $10,000 NYS Legislative Initiative from State Senator James L. Seward.

    Visit their website at www.abt.org/education/studiocompany.asp.

    Tafelmusik, Canada’s award-winning orchestra on period instruments, was founded in 1979. Under the inspired leadership of Music Director Jeanne Lamon since 1981, Tafelmusik has achieved international stature, performing over 50 concerts a year at home in Toronto, touring extensively around the world, and producing numerous award-winning recordings. All 18 members of the orchestra are specialists in historical performance practice. Their collaboration results in a delightful transparency, vitality and richness of sound, garnering acclaim around the world. Tafelmusik has a comprehensive discography of 73 recordings.

Sponsored by WSKG Public Broadcasting

    Visit their website at www.tafelmusik.org.

    No Argentine chamber group has had such a sustained and brilliant existence as the Camerata Bariloche. Created in 1967, the orchestra has performed in the world’s most important concert halls. Their 2007 anniversary tour in the United States makes it possible for them to be heard in Oneonta. The group is composed of nearly twenty musicians, selected from among the best in Argentina. The Camerata’s artistic background encompasses no less than 2,500 concerts and some thirty recordings. The orchestra is in residence at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. Their repertoire includes traditional chamber orchestra classics and also Latin American compositions.
Sponsored by Oneonta State College.

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    For over a decade, this dazzling ensemble has enchanted audiences and critics worldwide with their exotic blend of musical virtuosity, artistic passion and charismatic presence. Classical in intent, eclectic by design, Quartetto Gelato not only thrills its audiences with the mastery of six instruments, but also offers the wonderfully unexpected bonus of a brilliant operatic tenor. With a performance repertoire that travels imaginatively between classical masterworks, operatic arias and the sizzling energy of tangos, gypsy and folk songs, the group’s relaxed stage presence and delightful humor establishes an immediate rapport with traditional and non-traditional classical audiences alike.

    Visit their website at www.quartettogelato.com.

Acknowledgements

Oneonta Concert Association programs are made possible, in part, by The New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. OCA is supported by the Dewar Foundation, the A.C. Molinari Foundation, and other area foundations. OCA is a member of the Otsego County Arts Alliance, funded by Otsego County Occupancy Tax Revenues and Wilber National Bank. Wilber National Bank is proud to support the arts and their contribution to our quality of life. For more information about events in Otsego County, call 800-843-3394.

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