Quintet of the Americas To Present Special Concert at Langston Hughes Library on April 15 - Music by Two Queens Composers Featured New York, NY - The Quintet of the Americas and the Langston Hughes Library will present a very special concert on Thursday, April 15 - 7:00 PM at the Library's Cultural Center, 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, Queens. Come meet the composers - get an up-close view with of "computer music" with C. Bryan Rulon (http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/roulonc.htm) as he explains his new work Anti-Silence. Meet Edmund Cionek (http://www.sai-national.org/phil/composers/ecionek.html) and hear his Fifteen Fake Folk Songs and meet two Queens' composers - Charles Griffin (Jiminez Suite - http://www.charlesgriffin.net/) and James Cohn (recently honored by the Queens Arts Council - http://www.jamesarts.com/CohnBio0202.htm), and hear some Quintet favorites by Scott Joplin, William Grant Still and Olaya Munoz. This concert is free and open to the public and will include a special demonstration & workshop. For more information about the April 15 concert, contact Langston Hughes Library at 718-651-1100 for travel directions to the library or other information. 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 CD is Dancing in Colombia on the MSR label (http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/april02/QA_042202.htm). 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. For more information about the Quintet of the Americas, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 or [log in to unmask] This program is sponsored with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation. Additional funds provided by Meet the Composer / JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Ensemble and the Music Performance Trust Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. 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. Jeffrey James Arts Consulting Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166 Website: http://www.jamesarts.com