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The New York Lyric Chamber Players will open the 2006-07 season of the Southern Exposure New Music Series with a performance featuring Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time.
The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, in the School of Music Recital Hall. The concert is open to the public. Admission is free, but seating is limited. For a donation of $100 or more, patrons will receive two reserved seats for the entire 2006-07 Southern Exposure season.
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"We're very excited to feature this wonderful and dynamic young ensemble. They're incredible musicians, performing one of the most deeply moving works of the past century," said John Fitz Rogers, an associate professor of composition in the School of Music and artistic director of the series.
The New York Lyric Chamber Players members are clarinetist Igor Begelman, violinists Grigory Kalinovsky and Gary Levinson, cellist Andrey Tchekmazov, and pianist Tatiana Goncharova. Hailed by Fanfare Magazine as "vigorous, searing with intensity, and meticulously accurate," the ensemble first performed at the 2005 Music Festival of the Hamptons.
Since that inaugural performance, they have been invited to perform at Merkin Hall in New York and the Newport Music Festival, among many other venues. As individual artists, they have performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and at the Tanglewood, Marlboro, and Ravinia festivals and have collaborated in chamber music performances with artists such as Yo Yo Ma, Midori, and Pinchas Zukerman.
The New York Lyric Chamber Players are currently the ensemble-in-residence of the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York and are affiliated with the Astral Foundation and Piatigorsky Foundation. In addition to performing in traditional venues, they are dedicated to bringing classical music to wider audiences and have developed numerous outreach projects geared towards both young and old, appearing in less traditional settings such as schools, churches, and senior homes.
The performers currently reside in New York City and, in addition to their busy performing schedules, maintain teaching positions at the Manhattan School of Music, North Carolina School of the Arts, the Pinchas Zukerman Institute in Canada, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival.
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| Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992 |
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The group's versatility allows them to perform repertoire ranging from classical to jazz, klezmer to contemporary, quartets to trios, and sonatas to showpieces.
French composer Messiaen wrote Quartet for the End of Time, considered one of the greatest works of the last century, in 1940 while he was a prisoner-of-war in a Nazi camp. He used the performers and instruments available to him and premiered the work in 1941 before 5,000 fellow prisoners.
The ensemble also will perform a recent work by American composer Peter Schickele, who is sometimes known as P.D.Q. Bach.
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New York Lyric Chamber Players
