Quintet of the Americas In Concert At Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center in Corona, Queens on January 7 New York, NY - The Quintet of the Americas and the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center will present a special concert of American classical and jazz, as well Latin music on Saturday, January 7, 2006 - 3:30 p.m. at The Library and Cultural Center, 100-01 Northern Boulevard in Corona, Queens. This concert will feature The Quintet of the Americas performing Dr. Carl MaultsBy's Journey for woodwind quintet and African and Latin percussion (2004) and Still Rockin in Jerusalem (1993), William Grant Still's Miniatures, Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag, Quintet member Matthew Sullivan's Amazing Gracefully, works by Jazz legends Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite and Paquito D'Rivera - Wapango, and Ancient Calls, a quintet improvisation with South American folk instruments. For more about Dr. Carl MaultsBy, visit http://www.quintet.org/news-maultsby.html. This concert is free and open to the public. For more information about the January 7 concert, contact the Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center at 718-651-1100. 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 CDs are Karel Husa: Recollections on New World and Dancing in Colombia on the MSR label. 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 516-586-3433 or [log in to unmask] This program is sponsored with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Funding is also provided by the Queens Library and Queens Library Action Committee of Corona and East Elmhurst, Inc., the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the JP Morgan Chase / Meet the Composer Fund for Small Ensembles, The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Music Performance Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. With special thanks to NYS Senator the Hon. Frank Padavan, and the Hon. Helen M. Marshall, Borough President of Queens. Jeffrey James Arts Consulting Tel: 516-586-3433 Website: http://www.jamesarts.com