Hartt Presents The New York Woodwind Quartet 4/7

The Hartt School, the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford, is pleased to present New York Woodwind Quintet for the final concert in the 2010-2011 Richard P. Garmany Chamber Music Series on Thursday evening, April 7, 2011, at 7:30 PM, in Millard Auditorium, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. Individual concert tickets are $30 with discounts on for seniors, educators, University of Hartford alumni, students, and groups.

A special pre-concert dinner precedes the performance and begins at 6:00 PM in the University's 1877 Club. Dinner tickets are $39 each. To purchase individual tickets or to get additional information, please call the University of Hartford Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587. To purchase tickets online, please visit www.hartford.edu/hartt.

Celebrating its 60th year, the New York Woodwind Quintet is one of chamber music's most honored and venerable ensembles. Each of the Quintet's members is an established artist in his or her own right and the group's bassoonist, Marc Goldberg, is a long-time member of the Hartt faculty. The New York Woodwind Quintet also includes Carol Wincenc, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; Charles Neidich, clarinet; and William Purvis, horn. "For more than half a century, this group has defined great wind playing..." - The New Yorker

Members of the New York Woodwind Quintet will interact with Hartt students throughout the day during master classes and also at a post-concert reception, which is open to all concert attendees.

The Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has grantEd Hartt $53,000 to support The Richard P. Garmany Chamber Music Series for 2011-2012. The inaugural 2009-2010 season was made possible by a $30,000 grant from the Garmany Fund. Thanks in part to the tremendous success of the Series, the gift was renewed and increased to $45,000 for the 2010-2011 season and to $53,000 for the 2011-2012 season, an increase of more than 75% from the first gift. The Fund and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving's continuing commitment to support this unique and distinctive concert Series allows Hartt to bring some of the world's best chamber artists to perform for Greater-Hartford audiences. The roster of artists for the 2011-2012 season will be announced in coming weeks.
For sixty seasons, the New York Woodwind Quintet has maintained an active performance schedule in the United States and abroad while also teaching the next generation of woodwind performers. The Quintet has commissioned and premiered more than 20 compositions, some of which have become classics of the woodwind repertoire. They include Samuel Barber's Summer Music, and quintets by Gunther Schuller, Ezra Laderman, William Bergsma, Alec Wilder, William Sydeman, Wallingford Riegger, Jon Deak, and Yehudi Wyner. The Quintet has featured many of these in recordings for such labels as Boston Skyline, Bridge, New World Records, and Nonesuch. The Quintet's members also honor the legacy of departed members, including the late Samuel Baron, by continuing to perform his transcriptions of works such as Bach's Art of the Fugue and the Scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the late Ronald Roseman, by performing his Wind Quintet No. 2 and Sextet for Piano and Winds, which was dedicated to the New York Woodwind Quintet and completed just before he died. Current NYWQ members flutist Carol Wincenc, clarinetist Charles Neidich, oboist Stephen Taylor, bassoonist Marc Goldberg, and French hornist William Purvis, all internationally recognized performers and teachers, continue the Quintet's now 15 year long residency at The Juilliard School, where they present eight seminars each year for student woodwind quintets, teach individual students, and give regular coaching sessions. For more information and to read individual bios please visit www.nywq.org.

The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving is the community foundation for the 29-town Greater Hartford region, dedicated to improving the quality of life for area residents for the past 85 years. The Foundation receives gifts from thousands of generous individuals and families, and last year, awarded grants of nearly $26 million to a broad range of area nonprofit organizations. For more information about the Hartford Foundation, visit www.hfpg.org or call 860.548.1888.

The Hartt School is the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford that offers innovative degree programs in music, dance, and theatre. Founded 90 years ago, Hartt has been an integral part of the University of Hartford since its charter merged the then Hartt School of Music, the Hartford Art School, and Hillyer College to create the University in 1957. 2010 markEd Hartt's 90th year of providing world class performing arts education to students in Greater-Hartford and around the world. With more than 400 concerts, recitals, plays, master classes, dance performances, and musical theatre productions a year, performance is central to Hartt's curriculum. For more information about The Hartt School, visit www.hartford.edu/hartt.

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