03/17 @ 8:00pm - Toomai String Quintet + Dan Joseph Ensemble, with special guest Thomas Buckner

Buy Tickets | Admission: $15, $12 advance, $10 for members

The Toomai String Quintet is an ensemble devoted to performing music from the classical and contemporary repertoire while exploring and arranging music from around the world. Winner of the 92nd St. Y’s 2007 Music Unlocked! Competition for emerging ensembles, the Toomai String Quintet is dedicated to creating engaging interactive concerts for audiences of all ages.

Hailed for their “light-handed authority” on their “magnificently executed” recording of composer Jessica Pavone’s Songs of Synastry and Solitude (Tzadik Records), the Toomai String Quintet is equally at home in concert halls and unconventional performance spaces.  The quintet has appeared in venues such as the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd St. Y, Juilliard’s chamber music series at Lincoln Center, and The Kitchen in downtown NYC.  They also perform frequently in public schools, hospitals, and alternative care facilities throughout the New York City area as part of the current roster for Carnegie Hall’s “Musical Connections” program.  In addition, the quintet has been featured in the Miami Civic Music Association and Con Vivo chamber music series, among others.
Formed in 2007 at The Juilliard School, the quintet is named after Rudyard Kipling’s short story “Toomai of the Elephants” in which a young boy journeys into the jungle to witness the dance of the wild elephants. The Toomai String Quintet aspires to cultivate a similar sense of curiosity and discovery by searching for diverse music and sharing it with their audience.
Personnel:  Emilie-Anne Gendron and Nicole Jeong, violins; Erin Wight, viola;  John Popham, cello; and Andrew Roitstein, double bass
Issue Project Room Program:
• Huang Ruo: The Three Tenses (String Quintet Version)
• Selections from Jessica Pavone’s Songs of Synastry and Solitude
• Georges Onslow: Quintet No. 27 in D Major, Op. 68
• Arrangements of music by Ernesto Lecuona, Adrian Willaert, and Sapo Perapaskero

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The Toomai String Quintet is an ensemble devoted to performing music from the classical and contemporary repertoire while exploring and arranging music from around the world. Winner of the 92nd St. Y’s 2007 Music Unlocked! Competition for emerging ensembles, the Toomai String Quintet is dedicated to creating engaging interactive concerts for audiences of all ages.

Hailed for their “light-handed authority” on their “magnificently executed” recording of composer Jessica Pavone’s Songs of Synastry and Solitude (Tzadik Records), the Toomai String Quintet is equally at home in concert halls and unconventional performance spaces.  The quintet has appeared in venues such as the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd St. Y, Juilliard’s chamber music series at Lincoln Center, and The Kitchen in downtown NYC.  They also perform frequently in public schools, hospitals, and alternative care facilities throughout the New York City area as part of the current roster for Carnegie Hall’s “Musical Connections” program.  In addition, the quintet has been featured in the Miami Civic Music Association and Con Vivo chamber music series, among others.

Formed in 2007 at The Juilliard School, the quintet is named after Rudyard Kipling’s short story “Toomai of the Elephants” in which a young boy journeys into the jungle to witness the dance of the wild elephants. The Toomai String Quintet aspires to cultivate a similar sense of curiosity and discovery by searching for diverse music and sharing it with their audience.

Personnel:  Emilie-Anne Gendron and Nicole Jeong, violins; Erin Wight, viola;  John Popham, cello; and Andrew Roitstein, double bass

Issue Project Room Program:

• Huang Ruo: The Three Tenses (String Quintet Version)

• Selections from Jessica Pavone’s Songs of Synastry and Solitude

• Georges Onslow: Quintet No. 27 in D Major, Op. 68

• Arrangements of music by Ernesto Lecuona, Adrian Willaert, and Sapo Perapaskero

www.toomaiquintet.com

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photo by Chris Woltman

The Dan Joseph Ensemble was founded in 2001 by New York-based composer Dan Joseph as a vehicle for his growing body of intricate, post-minimal compositions. With a unique instrumentation anchored by hammer dulcimer and harpsichord with a mix of winds, strings and percussion, the ensemble sound is harmonically rich and deeply resonant, evoking a musical world both old and new; ancient and modern. The ensemble includes Tom Chiu (violin), Loren Dempster (cello), Maria Ilic (harpshichord), Leah Paul (flute), Danny Tunick (percussion) and the composer on hammer dulcimer. The program will feature the world premiere of Joseph’s newest ensemble work Tonalization (for the afterlife), and an encore performance of Music Primer for baritone and hammer dulcimer with baritone Thomas Buckner.

http://danjoseph.org/ensemble

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