Chicago Brass Quintet (January 28, 2007)
Hailed as “one of the premiere ensembles of our time” by
the International Trumpet Guild Journal, the Chicago Brass Quintet
has performed throughout the world. Highlights have included performances
at the Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Hall at the West Point Academy, Chautauqua
Institute, many tours throughout the U.S., and international tours
in Taiwan in 1997, 1999 & 2001 and Brazil & Columbia in 1999,
2002 & 2004. The quintet has enjoyed a close association with Chicago’s
fine arts radio station WFMT, performing live from their studios. They
have often been broadcast on National Public Radio and the Canadian
Broadcasting Company. The Chicago Brass Quintet’s commissions
have added new works by Cliff Colnot, James Mattern, Lawrence Rapchek,
Dan Anderson, Jan
Bach, and J. Mark Scearce to the brass quintet literature. Since 1981
they have released six recordings for the Delos, Crystal, Centaur,
and Covenant labels.
Quintet Attacca (February 18, 2007)
Quintet Attacca, Grand Prize Winner of the 2002 Fischoff Chamber Music
Competition, is one of Chicago’s most dynamic chamber ensembles.
They are one of only two woodwind quintets in the competition’s
thirty year history to have won the coveted Grand Prize. That same
year the Quintet was invited to perform as finalists for the Chamber
Music Society Two at Lincoln Center. The summer of 2003 marked Quintet
Attacca’s European debut with concerts at the Emilio Romagna
Festival and the Cantania Musica Estate Festival in Italy. They have
appeared on “Live from WFMT,” and on a variety of chamber
music series in the Chicago area. The members are Jennifer Clippert,
flute; Erica Burtner Anderson, oboe; Barbara Drapcho, clarinet; Collin
Anderson, bassoon; and Jeremiah Frederick, French horn.
Arianna String
Quartet (March 18, 2007)
The Arianna String Quartet has firmly established itself as one of
America’s finest chamber ensembles. Formed in 1992, they captured
the Grand Prize in the 1994 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition,
and First Prize in both the Coleman and Carmel National Competitions.
They were also Finalists in the 1999 Bordeaux International String
Quartet Competition. From 1993-1996, the Arianna Quartet studied with
the Vermeer Quartet at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL.
Praised by critics for their warmth and polish, the Chicago Tribune
recently said “the silken refinement of the playing was achieved
with no loss of expressive vitality or spontaneity. Quartet playing
doesn’t get much better than this.”
The Arianna Quartet
has concertized throughout the United States, Mexico, Japan, Canada
and France, and has given successful debuts at Orchestra
Hall in Chicago and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. They have collaborated
with artists such as Gilbert Kalish, Richard Stoltzman, and the Vermeer
Quartet. The Arianna Quartet has recorded for the Centaur, Albany,
and Urtext classical labels and been featured in concerts at the Spoleto,
Banff, Norfolk, and Strings in the Mountains festivals. The ASQ was
Ensemble-in-Residence at the Tanglewood Music Center, and was invited
by Isaac Stern to perform in his first ever Carnegie Hall master classes.
In 2003, The ASQ was a recipient of a Chamber Music America Residency
Grant for their outreach work in St. Louis. The Arianna String Quartet
was recently appointed Faculty Artist Teachers and Quartet-in-Residence
in the music department at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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