Chamber Music of Charles Griffin to be Performed in New York City on
June 28 and in Liepaja, Latvia on July 1

Chamber Music by American composer Charles Griffin will be performed
in New York City and Liepaja, Latvia in the next week at the following
locations:

Charles' Jazz Suite for clarinet and piano will be performed by
clarinetist Demetrius Spaneas and pianist Elaine Kwon on June 28 -
7:00 at The Knitting Factory Tap Room, 74 Leonard Street in Manhattan.
This will be presented as part of a concert by the Sapphire Ensemble
of new solo and duo classical/crossover works by Nickos Harizanos,
Elaine Kwon, Leroy "Sam" Parkins, William Susman, and Demtrius
Spaneas (http://www.dspaneas.com/).  The Sapphire Ensemble is a NYC
based music group with flexible instrumentation that specializes
in crossing genres by presenting new classical chamber music
influenced by jazz, rock, film, theater, world music, and other
forms of improvisation.

Tickets for this event are $8 in advance, $10 at the door.  For more
information, call The Knitting Factory at (212) 219-3132 or visit them
at http://www.knittingfactory.com/.

The Riga, Latvia-based clarinet quartet Quattro Differente will include
Charles' recently revised version of Panta Rei on their July 1 - 4PM
concert at The Gallery Theater of the Latvian Society House in Liepaja,
Latvia.  Also on this program will be works by Nick Gotham, Jekabs
Nimanis, Santa Ratniece, Janis Duda, Edgars Raginskis, Austra Savicka
and Imants Mezaraups.

Panta Rei, originally an 8 minute work for saxophone quartet, was premiered
by the Amherst Saxophone Quartet in Buffalo, New York.  Quattro Differente
(http://www.qd.lv/index_en.htm) premiered an earlier version of the piece
in Ogre, Latvia, last year.

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 latest From the Faraway Nearby newsletter at
http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/june07/CG_nws_062507.htm and his lively
blog of the same name at http://www.sequenza21.com/latvia/.  You can
also hear a marvelous new Noizepunk & Das Krooner interview with him at
http://www.kalvos.org/nkshows.html.  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

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