Dec13
What: Music for Unconventional Ensembles presented by The Quiet City Chamber Ensemble
When: Saturday, December 13, 2014, 12:15 - 1:30 PM
Description: When world-renowned musicians create an ensemble for which there is little established repertoire, what are the options for creating music and opportunities to perform it?
Where: Schare Recital Hall, Marryott Music Building, Douglass Campus, Rutgers University, 81 George Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901
Cost: Free
RSVP: afranzetti@masongross.rutgers.edu
Biographies: The QUIET CITY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE was founded by Christopher Brellochs in 2010 to record the world premiere of Aaron Copland’s Quiet City in its original instrumentation. Brellochs had crafted a concert version of Quiet City using the unpublished manuscript of the incidental music, which included material that had languished in obscurity for over 70 years. The Aaron Copland Estate and Copland’s publisher, Boosey and Hawkes, embraced this newly reconstructed chamber version and granted Dr. Brellochs the exclusive right to make the world premiere recording. This led to a search for other unrecorded works by American composers and the formation of this ensemble. The recording Quiet City (Sono Luminus, June 2011) has been well received, garnering significant national radio play along with interviews by Fred Child on APR (American Public Media): PERFORMANCE TODAY, the most-listened-to classical music radio show in America with 1.3 million listeners weekly, and NPR (National Public Radio): WEEKEND EDITION. The recording also received rave reviews both here and abroad, including an article in DER SPIEGEL Online, a German news magazine and one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million! The ensemble has gone on to perform publicly, using repertoire from the CD and encouraging composers to write for this unique and wonderful instrumentation. In their 2014-2015 season they present music by Grammy® winning composer Carlos Franzetti, graduate composition student Peter Cody, and winners from their first "Call for Scores." Members of The Quiet City Chamber Ensemble are Christopher Brellochs, alto saxophone; Donald Batchelder, trumpet; Mitchell Kriegler, clarinet/bass clarinet; and Allison Brewster Franzetti, piano.
Biographies: The QUIET CITY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE was founded by Christopher Brellochs in 2010 to record the world premiere of Aaron Copland’s Quiet City in its original instrumentation. Brellochs had crafted a concert version of Quiet City using the unpublished manuscript of the incidental music, which included material that had languished in obscurity for over 70 years. The Aaron Copland Estate and Copland’s publisher, Boosey and Hawkes, embraced this newly reconstructed chamber version and granted Dr. Brellochs the exclusive right to make the world premiere recording. This led to a search for other unrecorded works by American composers and the formation of this ensemble. The recording Quiet City (Sono Luminus, June 2011) has been well received, garnering significant national radio play along with interviews by Fred Child on APR (American Public Media): PERFORMANCE TODAY, the most-listened-to classical music radio show in America with 1.3 million listeners weekly, and NPR (National Public Radio): WEEKEND EDITION. The recording also received rave reviews both here and abroad, including an article in DER SPIEGEL Online, a German news magazine and one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million! The ensemble has gone on to perform publicly, using repertoire from the CD and encouraging composers to write for this unique and wonderful instrumentation. In their 2014-2015 season they present music by Grammy® winning composer Carlos Franzetti, graduate composition student Peter Cody, and winners from their first "Call for Scores." Members of The Quiet City Chamber Ensemble are Christopher Brellochs, alto saxophone; Donald Batchelder, trumpet; Mitchell Kriegler, clarinet/bass clarinet; and Allison Brewster Franzetti, piano.