Chamber Players International and Italian Cultural Institute Present
Quartetto San Ivo (St. Ivo Piano Quartet - Rome, Italy) in World Premiere
of David Winkler's Piano Quartet - October 11 at Klavierhaus in New York
City

Chamber Players International (CPI), in cooperation with the Italian
Cultural Institute, presents Quartetto San Ivo (the St. Ivo Piano Quartet
- Rome, Italy) for their second New York performance on Saturday, October
11, 2003, 7 PM, at Klavierhaus, 211 W.  58th Street (between 7th Ave.
& Broadway), New York, NY.  This concert will feature the World Premiere
of New York composer David Winkler's Piano Quartet.

Admission is $20.  For tickets, reservations and information, call Chamber
Players International toll-free at 877-444-4488.

This will be the Quartetto San Ivo's second concert in New York City
and will feature contemporary American, Italian and Argentine composers.
In addition to the David Winkler Quartet (2003), St. Ivo will present
Armando Ghidoni's "Feeling-Swinging in a Classical Fugue" (2003) [composed
specifically for the St. Ivo Piano Quartet], Domenico de Biase's Cinema
e Musica (1999), and Astor Piazzolla's "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires"
(1983).

The members of the Quartetto are Lily Popova - Piano, Giuliano Biscelgia
- Violin, Luigi Gagliano - Viola and Antonio Ramous - Cello.

The virtuoso Bulgarian pianist Lily Popova has appeared as soloist with
the International Chamber Ensemble of Rome.  Giuliano Biscelgia, Luigi
Gagliano, and Antonio Ramous, all principal players in the International
Chamber Ensemble of Rome, have active, prestigious international solo
and ensemble performance careers.

The work of Quartetto San Ivo's string players extends beyond the
boundaries of classical music to include performing with renowned Italian
folk and jazz groups and doing recording work including film scores.
During their rehearsals and performances during the summer of 1998,
Popova, Biscelgia, Gagliano, and Ramous all discovered a great artistic
affinity in their taste in repertoire and in their style of playing and
so Quartetto San Ivo was born.

David Winkler's recent commissions have included new works for the
Bolivian National Symphony Orchestra, the Daegu City Symphony of South
Korea, Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra of Austria, the Kharkov Philharmonic
of Ukraine and the Orchestre de Chambre Francais.  He has also been the
recipient of commissions from the Alabama Symphony, Houston Grand Opera,
the Kennedy Center for its 25th Anniversary Symphonic Commission program,
an Aspen Music Festival Violin Concerto Commission, a Leonard Bernstein
Tanglewood Composer Fellowship, a Fromm Foundation commission in cooperation
with the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, the BMI Young Composer
Award and the Rapaport Prize, administered by Columbia University.  He
has been composer in residence with the Aspen Music Festival, the Banff
Centre, Opera/Omaha (1996 and 1997), the Chautauqua Opera and the Lincoln
Center Institute.  He is a member of ASCAP and for the last five years
has been a recipient of a Special ASCAP Award.  His webpage is at
http://www.jamesarts.com/dwinkler.htm.

Chamber Players International is a major regional presenting and
performing arts organization serving the entire New York metropolitan
area.  Its artistic mission is to bring chamber music and chamber orchestra
performances of the highest artistic quality to audiences throughout the
area with such world-renowned ensembles as the International Chamber
Orchestra of Rome and New York core-ensemble members as violinists Mark
Peskanov and Janet Sung, violist Toby Hoffman, cellist Nathaniel Rosen,
clarinetist Charles Neidich and pianists Jeffrey Biegel, Mirian Conti
and Gerald Robbins.  Visit their website at
http://chamberplayersinternational.com/.

For more information, please contact CPI at 877-444-4488.

Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com