"...gorgeously lyrical playing" - The New York Times
"...the cutting edge" - The New Yorker
Director of Double Reed at NYU Steinhardt,
Department of Music and Preforming Arts Professionals
Quintet of the Americas
MANNAHATTA PROJECT
(MANNAHATTA- ISLAND OF MANY HILLS)
A NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY
MUSIC, ART AND VIDEO COMMISSIONED BY
QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
Clarinet - Nicholas Gallas, Flute - Sato Moughalian
Oboist - Matt Sullivan, Horn - Barbara Oldham
* Celebrating their 30th Anniversary.
Music Composition by Christopher Kaufman
JUNE 12th & 25th, 2010
(More info. below)
Music Commissioned And Performed By,
Quintet of the Americas
AND IT HAS ALL COME TOGETHER WONDERFULLY IN HIS INNOVATIVE COMPOSITION AND VIDEO FOR:
THE HUDSON VALLEY QUINTET
* Celebrating their 30th Anniversary.
Music Composition by Christopher Kaufman
of what became the New York Tri-State Area.
"MANNAHATTA" by Dr. Eric Sanderson
ERIC W. SANDERSON is the Associate Director
for Landscape Ecology and Geographic Analysis in the Living Landscape Program
of the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. He is an expert in
the application of geographic principles and techniques to problems in
wildlife, landscape, and ecological conservation, and has published numerous
articles on the subject. He lives in New York City.
* Dr. Sanderson, Christopher Kaufman, Ken Cro-Ken
and the members of QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
will be a part of panel discussions,
to raise awareness of the environmental issues we can resolve.
(* Noted in performance dates below.)
"MANNAHATTA PROJECT"
PERFORMANCES SCHEDULED
( Additional locations to be announced in all 5 boroughs of NYC )
Saturday, June 12 at 2 pm
FLUSHING LIBRARY, 4117 Main Street, Flushing, Queens
Thursday, June 17 at 7 pm
LANGSTON HUGHES LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTER
100-01 Northern Boulevard,Corona,
Queens
Friday, June 25 at 7:30 pm
LOEWE AUDITORIUM at NYU, 35 W. 4th Street, NY, NY
New works by Mark Dancigers, Robert Deemer and Christopher Kaufman
CHRISTOPHER KAUFMAN is a composer, performer, presenter and teacher. Kaufman has composed for film and concert stage / Sound Design. Further, Christopher has composed over seventy works for a wide variety of medium including orchestra, wind ensemble, dance, chamber groups, theater and solo works. He is the founder and artistic director of CHIRON Performing Arts through which he has presented the work of hundreds of artists of all disciplines. He has a large private studio of students and has led a wide variety of workshops for students of all ages in public and private schools and universities. He is a writer/reviewer for the New Music Connoisseur. His music has been featured at June in Buffalo, The Charles Ives Music Center, the NorthEastern Composer's Conference, Encore Summer Music, The Internationales Musikinstitut of Darmstadt, Germany and Eastman’s Musica Nova. His Ring of Fire - for orchestra was featured at the American Composers Orchestra readings. He has been a fellow four times at the MacDowell Arts Colony . He has also received numerous commissions of his music.
Made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts
with support made possible through the JPMorgan Chase Arts
NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL for the ARTS
and Culture Regrants Program.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
please go to their website at:
Credit images:
Markley Boyer / The Mannahatta Project / Wildlife Conservation Society
Cover image for Hudson Valley Quintet, "L.I. and Connecticut", by Ken Cro-Ken,
photographed by Becket Logan.
RECENT MANNAHATTA EVENTS:
WATERFRONT MUSEUM, 290 Conover Street,
Pier 44 docked next to Fairway in
Red Hook, Brooklyn
* with panel
including composers, earthwork painter, Ken Cro-Ken and Dr. Eric
Sanderson
http://www.waterfrontmuseum.org/
Sunday, May 16 at 2 pm
ROCKAWAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS (R.O.C.A.),
Fort Tilden, Far
Rockaway, Queens
Sunday, May 23 at 2 pm
NOBLE MUSEUM, Snug Harbor, Staten Island
Wednesday May 26 at 7:30 pm
SALVATION ARMY TEMPLE PERFORMANCE HALL,