Quintet of the Americas To Present Special Concert at Langston Hughes
Library on April 15 - Music by Two Queens Composers Featured

New York, NY - The Quintet of the Americas and the Langston Hughes Library
will present a very special concert on Thursday, April 15 - 7:00 PM at
the Library's Cultural Center, 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, Queens.

Come meet the composers - get an up-close view with of "computer music"
with C.  Bryan Rulon (http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/roulonc.htm)
as he explains his new work Anti-Silence.  Meet Edmund Cionek
(http://www.sai-national.org/phil/composers/ecionek.html) and hear
his Fifteen Fake Folk Songs and meet two Queens' composers - Charles
Griffin (Jiminez Suite - http://www.charlesgriffin.net/) and James
Cohn (recently honored by the Queens Arts Council -
http://www.jamesarts.com/CohnBio0202.htm), and hear some Quintet
favorites by Scott Joplin, William Grant Still and Olaya Munoz.

This concert is free and open to the public and will include a special
demonstration & workshop.

For more information about the April 15 concert, contact Langston Hughes
Library at 718-651-1100 for travel directions to the library or other
information.

The Quintet of the Americas, consisting of flutist Sato Moughalian,
oboist Matt Sullivan, clarinetist Edward Gilmore, hornist Barbara Oldham
and bassoonist Laura Koepke, was formed in Bogota, Colombia in 1976 by
U.S.  citizens who were principal wind players in the Colombian National
Orchestra.  The group relocated to New York City in 1979 and has since
enjoyed an international career that has taken them to concert halls
throughout the Americas, the Caribbean Asia, including annual performances
at Manhattan's Americas Society since 1982.  Two time recipients of
ASCAP-Chamber Music America Awards for Adventuresome Programming, the
Quintet's repertoire represents works from composers with a wide-range
of aesthetic viewpoints.  They have recorded for CRI, Newport Classics,
MMC and XLNT.  Their latest CD is Dancing in Colombia on the MSR label
(http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/april02/QA_042202.htm).  The Quintet
has been a past recipient of the CMA Commissioning Award in for a
commission by David Chaitkin and a three-year Residency Award for work
in Chicago.  They are in residence in The Department of Music and
Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University.  Visit
their website at http://www.quintet.org.  For more information about the
Quintet of the Americas, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at
516-797-9166 or [log in to unmask]

This program is sponsored with public funds from the New York State
Council on the Arts, a public agency, the New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and
Historic Preservation.  Additional funds provided by Meet the Composer
/ JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Ensemble and the Music Performance Trust
Funds, Local 802, A.F.  of M.  With special thanks to NYS Senator the
Hon.  Frank Padavan, the Hon.  Helen Marshall, Borough President of
Queens, and the Queens Delegation to the New York City Council.

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