Solo and Duo Piano Music of Charles Griffin to be Performed in Maryland
and Mexico from March 16 to 23
Solo and duo piano music by Charles Griffin will be performed in Maryland
and Mexico in the coming days:
Saturday, March 17 - 8 PM, Mr. Griffin's The Lawrence Tree will be given
its Baltimore premiere by the Saar Ahuvia and Stephanie Ho Piano Duo at
An die Musik Live!, 409 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
More about the duo at http://www.stephsaarduo.com/.
The composer based the music for The Lawrence Tree on the paintings of
Georgia O'Keefe. Other composers on the program include Conlon Nancarrow,
Beethoven, Philippe Bodin and Bill Evans.
Tickets for this concert are $18, $12 for students and seniors, with a
complimentary wine reception following the performance. For tickets and
information, call An die Musik Live! 410 385 2638 or visit them online
at http://www.AndieMusikLive.com
Friday, March 16 through Friday, March 23 - Charles Griffin's Murmuring
in Comala will be performed by pianist Ana Cervantes in several locations
in the state of Guanajato, Mexico, including the Casa de la Cultura de
Irapuato in Irapuato, the Bellas Artes in San Miguel Allende, the Casa
de Cultura de Abasolo in Abasolo and the Casa de Cultura in San Francisco
del Rincon.
Ms. Cervantes commissioned this 4-minute work from Mr. Griffin as part
of a multi-composer project celebrating the work of Mexican author Juan
Rulfo. Works by 17 other composers from the U.S. and Mexico were part
of the Premiere concert last October, which also launched Murmurs from
the Wasteland - a CD recording of all the commissioned works. More about
Ana Cervantes at http://www.cervantespiano.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
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