The 4th Annual
New York Chamber Music Festival
presents
An Evening of David Amram’s Chamber
Music
and Readings From Jack Kerouac’s
On The Road with music
Friday, September 7, 8:00 pm
Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
2537 Broadway @ 95th
Featuring multi-instrumentalist David
Amram with his Quartet, John
Ventimiglia (of The Sopranos),
flutist Carol Wincenc, musicians
from the New York Philharmonic
and Metropolitan Opera, the
New York Piano Quartet and young
performers from the award-winning Face
the Music ensemble with artistic
director Jenny Undercofler.
Contact: info@newyorkchambermusicfestival.org,
tel. 646-797-3136
New York City on Friday September 7 at 8
pm, the acclaimed New York Piano
Quartet, internationally renowned
flutist Carol Wincenc, violinist and
former MET Orchestra concert
master Elmira Darvarova, cellist Wendy
Sutter, New York Philharmonic French
hornist Howard Wall, Metropolitan
Opera principal percussionist Greg
Zuber, actor John Ventimiglia (of
the The Sopranos), pianists Tomoko
Kanamaru and Hsin-Chiao Liao,
talented young musicians from the
award-winning ensemble Face the
Music with artistic director Jenny
Undercofler, the David Amram Quartet
with multi-instrumentalist David
Amram himself, will gather at
the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Symphony
Space to celebrate the chamber music
of one of the most significant American
composers of all times -- the
indefatigable David Amram, as part
of the 2012 New York Chamber Music
Festival.
This celebration of David Amram’s
chamber music includes a wide variety of
the composer’s works which represent his
prolific career spanning many decades.
Works include the 1960 Violin Sonata,
the 1979 piano quartet Portraits, the
1977 Native American Portraits, the
1982 Blues and Variations for Monk, the
1993 Theme and Variations on Red
River Valley, the Andante movement
from the Concerto for Flute Giants of
the Night (commissioned and
premiered in 2002 by Sir James Galway),
its chamber music version presented at
this concert by flutist Carol Wincenc in
its New York premiere, and the very
recently written 2012 Cancion de
Verano (Summer Song), also performed
in its New York premiere, by the
acclaimed young musicians ensemble Face
The Music. Several of these works are
inspired by David Amram’s
legendary collaboration with Jack
Kerouac, whose iconic work On the
Road has its own presence at the
September 7 concert, with 5 readings,
performed by actor John Ventimiglia (of The
Sopranos) and David Amram’s daughter
Adira Amram
*
Program
Violin Sonata (1960)
Elmira Darvarova (violin) and Tomoko
Kanamaru (piano)
Theme and Variations on Red River
Valley (1993)
Carol Wincenc (flute) with the members
of the Face the Music ensemble
Andante from Giants of the Night* (2002)
Carol Wincenc, flute and Hsin-Chiao Liao
(piano)
*New York premiere of the chamber
version
Portraits (1979)
Members of the New York Piano Quartet
with Wendy Sutter (guest cellist)
Intermission
Cancion de Verano (Summer Song)* (2012)
Members of the Face the Music ensemble
*New York premiere
Blues and Variations for Monk (1982)
Howard Wall (horn)
5 Readings from “On the Road’ by Jack
Kerouac (2011)
John Ventimiglia and Adira Amram with
the
David Amram Quartet
Native American Portraits (1977)
Elmira Darvarova (violin), Greg Zuber
(percussion), David Amram (percussion),
Tomoko Kanamaru (piano)
*
Tickets: $20
in advance (Symphony Space Members,
Students, Seniors $15; Day of
Performance $25) at symphonyspace.org or
call their Box Office at 212-864-5400
New York Chamber Music Festival * P.O.
Box 231284, New York, NY 10023 *
646-797-3136
info@newyorkchambermusicfestival.org