The Moon of the Floating World by American Composer Charles Griffin to
be Performed in Riga, Latvia on June 16 by Putni Female Vocal Ensemble

American composer Charles Griffin's The Moon of the Floating World will
be presented by the female vocal ensemble Putni on Friday, June 16 - 7
PM at the magnificent Dome Cathedral in the heart of Riga, Latvia.

This work, written in 2005 for SSSSAAAA a cappella, is a setting of Ihara
Saikaku's enigmatic Haiku for treble voices.

For concert information, please contact Putni at (+371) 9159283, or visit
them online at http://www.music.lv/putni/default.htm 

Putni, whose Artistic Director is Antra Drege, was established in
1993 in Riga, Latvia, and now consists of eight young women.  They met
for the first time in the chamber choir Sindi Putnu Darzs (1986 - 1993).
Experience consolidated the group and created a unique sound. They are
Grand Prix winners in the international choir competitions of Tampere
(Finland) 1993; Kotka (Finland) 1994 and 1995; Riga (Latvia) and Oskarshamn
(Sweden) 1996, and have also performed in Germany and France.  The group's
concerts include a wide range of styles, although their speciality is
music of the 20th century, and they are well known for their bold
experiments in performing contemporary avante-garde music.  Putni
challenges composers to write music specifically for female voices,
which expands and breaks the stereotypical image of a female vocal
ensemble.  Visit them online at http://www.music.lv/putni/default.htm

Charles Griffin is an American composer currently living in Latvia. 
A native New Yorker, his works have been regularly performed throughout
the U.S.  as well as Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Canada, Europe and Asia
in such venues as Merkin and Weill Recital Halls in NYC and Washington
D.C.'s Kennedy Center and SpoletoUSA, Aspen, and International Cervantino
Festivals.  He has received grants from ASCAP, Meet the Composer's
Commissioning Music/USA, Queens Council on the Arts and New Dramatists,
and commissions from Ethos Percussion Group, the Piedmont Choirs, and
the Dale Warland Singers, among others.  His work has been included on
several CDs and has regularly been aired on major radio stations across
the U.S.

His several residencies have included Faith Partners, an interfaith
residency at three major houses of worship in New York City funded by
the Wolfensohn Family Foundation, where he composed four choral works
for the three institutions, another choral residency at New York's Frank
Sinatra High School for the Arts, and most recently, during the summer
2004 at the VI International Festival for Young Latvian Musicians, in
Ogre, Latvia.  Much more about him at his website -
http://www.charlesgriffin.net/.

For more information about Charles Griffin, contact Jeffrey James Arts
Consulting at 516-586-3433 or [log in to unmask]

Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
Tel: 516-586-3433
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com