Quintet of the Americas to Present Borrowing the Theme Concert At Flushing Library on January 6, Including Music by Queens Composers James Cohn and Gaudencio Thiago de Mello New York, NY - The Quintet of the Americas will present 'Borrowing the Theme,' a concert on Saturday, January 6, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. at The Flushing Library Auditorium, 41-17 Main Street in Flushing, Queens, New York. Special guest artist will be Gaudencio Thiago de Mello, organic percussion. The Quintet will return to the Flushing Library for a concert of music based on themes borrowed from TV soundtracks, older music and sounds from nature. "Mozart Fantasy," a new work by Douglaston composer James Cohn, will be featured. Mr. Cohn was commissioned by the Quintet to composer this work in honor of Mozart's 250th Birthday year. Also featured will be new works by Brazilian composer Gaudencio Thiago de Mello. Rob Paterson's 'Suburban Waltz Fantasy', filled with theme songs from old TV shows, Elliott Schwartz' 'Bird Bath' which includes bird calls and quotes of other pieces related to birds, Concerto No. 2 after Vivaldi (originally for organ) arranged for wind quintet by Mordechai Rechtman, a suite of Brazilian Songs by Ernesto Nazareth and As Proesas de Nolasco by Pixinguinha will also be performed. This concert is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact The Flushing Library at 718- 661-1200 or visit their website at http://www.queenslibrary.org. Douglaston resident James Cohn has written solo, chamber, choral and orchestral works, and his catalog includes 3 string quartets, 5 piano sonatas and 8 symphonies. He was awarded a Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Prize for his Symphony No. 2 (premiered at Brussels) and an A.I.D.E.M. prize for his Symphony No. 4 (premiered in Florence at the Maggio Musicale). He has had many performances of his choral and chamber music, and world-wide use of his music commissioned for television and cinema. Visit him online at http://www.jamesarts.com/CohnBio0202.htm. Forest Hills resident Gaudencio Thiago de Mello is well-known for his jazz writing and his performances as an innovative percussionist on instruments he has made out of things found in nature. Visit him online at http://www.thiago-amazon.com/. 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 CDs are Karel Husa: Recollections on New World and Dancing in Colombia on the MSR label. 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. This concert is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Additional funding comes from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Meet the Composer / JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Ensembles, and The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation.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. For more information about the Quintet of the Americas, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or [log in to unmask] Jeffrey James Arts Consulting Website: http://www.jamesarts.com