Five Boroughs Music Festival to Welcome EKMELES & Friends 6/29 at The DiMenna Center

Five Boroughs Music Festival's 2014-2015 season concludes on Monday, June 29th with the virtuosic vocal ensemble EKMELES, presented at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan. These master interpreters of avant garde vocal music, led by director and baritone Jeffrey Gavett, will join with musicians from TILT Brass and the loadbang ensemble in a thrilling program of works for brass and voice.

Featuring two US Premieres by contemporary European masters and a World Premiere by a young American talent, this new program showcases the flexibility and expressive possibilities inherent in voice and brass. Preceding the concert will be a special discussion about creating works for these forces, led by Ekmeles director Jeffrey Gavett, composer Christopher Fisher-Lochhead, and trombonist Will Lang (soloist in prosodia daseia).

Full information, including venue directions and ticketing, available now at www.5BMF.org.

DETAILS

Monday, June 29, 2015
7:30 PM (Pre-concert discussion at 6:30 PM)
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music Cary Hall
450 West 37th Street, MANHATTAN
$25 General Admission - Payable at the door or via 5BMF's online ticketing

The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, home of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, is conveniently located near multiple subway lines in West Midtown, including the 1, 2, 3 or 7 trains at Times Square or the A, C, and E trains at Penn Station.

PROGRAM

MATTHIAS SPAHLINGER
u?ber den fru?hen tod fra?uleins anna augusta marggra?fen zu baden (US Premiere)

WOLFGANG RIHM
SKOTEINO?S (US Premiere)

CHRISTOPHER FISHER-LOCHHEAD
prosodia daseia (World Premiere)

About the performers...

Ekmeles (www.ekmeles.com): Charlotte Mundy and Mary Mackenzie, sopranos; Kirsten Sollek, contralto; Toma?s Cruz and Brian Giebler, tenors; Jeffrey Gavett and Kelvin Chan, baritones; Steven Hrycelak, bass

Instrumentalists: Andy Kozar, trumpet; Will Lang, Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker and Matt Melore, trombones; Michelle Farah, oboe; Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet

(5BMF) is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to presenting traditional and contemporary chamber music in all five boroughs of New York City. With the dual aims of bringing affordable, high-caliber chamber music concerts to all parts of NYC and of cultivating new audiences for the genre, 5BMF engages top composers and performers from the New York City region and beyond and partners with many local cultural institutions. 5BMF's programming is rooted in familiar classical music traditions, but is inclusive of a broad range of styles; art song recitals, early music, jazz, new music and other non-classical forms are all represented.

Founded and led since 2007 by Artistic Director Jesse Blumberg, 5BMF has presented over 40 traditional and contemporary chamber music programs in eight complete cycles around NYC. Described as "imaginative" by the New York Times and "vital" by WQXR's Operavore blog, 5BMF's commitment to musical outreach and diverse programming has attracted positive attention from the NYC arts community from its earliest days; highlights include a performance for over 1,500 music lovers at the Third Annual Bryant Park Fall Festival in 2010, and the annual presentation of free outdoor concerts for Make Music New York.

5BMF's artist roster is comprised of diverse, talented emerging artists and distinguished musicians alike. 5BMF's venues are just as eclectic, and have included historic NYC landmarks such as Steinway Hall, the University Church at Fordham University, Flushing Town Hall, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, to name merely a few. Outreach initiatives include public masterclasses; artist talk-backs; and the donation of programming to charitable causes. In 2011, 5BMF presented the World Premiere of its ambitious Five Borough Songbook, a collection of 20 newly commissioned vocal chamber works from 20 composers. Over the course of the 2011-2012 season, 5BMF premiered the Songbook in each of NYC's five boroughs, and released a 2-CD album of the collection with GPR Records.

Further information can be found at www.5BMF.org or via email: info@5BMF.org.