Jubilate Deo by Charles Griffin to be Performed by The Amuse Singers
in New York City on January 28
Charles Griffin's Jubilate Deo, from his Three Meditations for Women's
Choir, will be heard as part of 'A Mid-Winter's Feast' - a concert
by The Amuse Singers on Sunday, January 28 - 3 PM at Madison Avenue
Presbyterian Church, corner of Madison Ave. at 73rd St. in New York
City.
Guest conductors Nancianne Parella and Andrew Henderson will also
lead the ensemble in performances of Confitemini Domino by Alessandro
Constantini, Missa Brevis by Benjamin Britten, Michael Haydn's Magnificat
and the Ave Maria of Franz Biebl, as well as Renaissance works by Dufay
and Jacob Handl, motets by Pablo Casals, Poulenc and Josef Rheinberger,
settings of American texts by Paul Halley and a Shaker Suite, arranged
by Nina Gilbert.
Amuse is an ensemble of 12-16 skilled amateur women singers formed
in the Fall of 2002 by Lee Ryder. As a small ensemble, Amuse offers
singers an opportunity to work together in a setting where every voice
matters. More about them at http://www.amusesingers.org.
Tickets for this concert are $12. For more information about this concert
or to order tickets, visit
http://www.amusesingers.org/season.07.program.01tkx.html.
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
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