Vernacular Dances by Charles Griffin to be Performed by Pianist Hugh Sung in Pennsylvania on February 3 Charles Griffin's Vernacular Dances will be performed as part of a recital by pianist Hugh Sung on Saturday, February 3, 2007 - 7:00 PM at the Darlington Arts Center, 977 Shavertown Road in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania. Other works on the program will be 3 Preludes by John Carollo, Poulenc's The Story of Babar and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Vernacular Dances was premiered at Steinway Hall, New York in 1996 and has been recorded for both the Capstone and Innova labels. A video of Mr. Sung performing Vernacular Dance No. 1 is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DvW4ud9k9-x8. For tickets and more information about the February 3 performance, please contact the Darlington Arts Center at 610 358 3632 or visit them online at http://www.darlingtonarts.org/. Hugh Sung is a Philadelphia-based pianist who has been an active soloist and chamber musician since his debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 11. He is now a professor at the Curtis Institute of music and has performed in major venues around the world from Carnegie Hall to The National Gallery of Art, and was featured on NPR's nationally syndicated Performance Today. Visit his homepage at http://www.hughsung.com. 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 in the U.S. His 'Agnus Dei' was recently included on the program with which the Peninsula Women's Chorus of Palo Alto, California captured Third Prize in the Bela Bartok International Choir Competition in Debrecen, Hungary. Read his new From the Faraway Nearby blog on Sequenza 21 at http://www.sequenza21.com/latvia/ and his newsletter of the same name at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/oct06/CG_nws_100206.htm. You can also hear a marvelous new Noizepunk & Das Krooner interview with him at http://www.kalvos.org/nkshows.html. 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 Website: http://www.jamesarts.com