The Boston-based vocal ensemble Tapestry will include my Duan Amhairghine (Song of Amergin), a setting in Irish Gaelic of an Ancient Irish Druidic text for women’s voices, violin, and bohdran on their program entitled American Dreams at:
Albright College Center for the Arts, Roop Hall, in Reading, Pennsylvania
The Quintet of the Americas will perform my Three Miniatures for Wind Quintet, which was inspired by the poetry of Juan Ramon Jiménez on:
Monday, January 25 , 2010 at 10:00AM
Catholic Charities Bayside Senior Center, Susan Shafer, Director
221-15 Horace Harding Boulevard, Bayside, NY
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The follow-up public concert from this past summer’s activities in the Nätverksläger (New Music Incubator, see my previous post) will take place in Västerås Concert Hall, Sweden on January 17 at 5 PM. 18 composers and musicians from 5 countries will come together for this performance.
My contribution [...]
The New Music Agency will perform my Concentric Dance, a trio for flute, clarinet, and bassoon commissioned by the Mariah Winds in 1996, at Lincoln Unitarian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Tuesday, December 29, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10/$5.
The program will also include works by composers [...]
Flutist Margaret Lancaster joins Ingrid Gordon’s ensemble Percussia, for an eclectic flute and percussion program at St. John’s University in Queens, New York that includes my Kusanganisa (Mixing, for flute and marimba 4-hands, based in part on Zimbabwean mbira patterns).
Other works on the program include the world premiere [...]
The Quintet of the Americas will perform my Three Miniatures for Wind Quintet, which was inspired by the poetry of Juan Ramon Jiménez on Monday, November 16, 2009 at 1:00PM at Community Mediation Services in Jamaica, Queens, and Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 11:00AM at the Salvation Army Center [...]
The University of Tennessee School of Music at Knoxville’s Percussion Ensemble will perform my Twisting Magnetic Spins, a percussion septet commissioned in 2005 by the University of North Texas for Mark Ford’s percussion ensemble, on November 15 at 8:00 PM.
The program, directed by Mark Douglass and Elizabeth Soflin and featuring [...]
The Latvian Trio Animando will include two of my arrangements on their November 14 concert at the Jumprava Culture House in Jumprava Parish, Latvia at 5PM.
They will include my arrangement of Pablo Sarasate’s Habañera/Carmen Fantasy – for Flute (Optional),Viola and Cello, which was commissioned by the trio’s Karlīna Īvāne, and my [...]
The University of South Carolina at Columbia Percussion Ensemble will perform my quartet, The Persistence of Past Chemistries on their Fall Concert, on October 26 at 7:30 PM.
Other works on the program include Aybabtu, by Cameron Britt, A Ceiling Full of Stars by Blake Tyson, Quick Blood by Adam [...]
Conductor Barbara Day Turner of the San José Chamber Orchestra will lead the Thüringer Symphoniker Saalfeld-Rudolstadt through two performances of two movements from my Weaving Olden Dances: Concerto for Chamber Orchestra on October 16 at 7:30 PM at the Meininger Hof in Saalfeld and October 17 at 7:30 PM at [...]
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Charles Griffin recently returned to the U.S. after spending 5 years living and working in Latvia. His compositions and arrangements have been performed at festivals and concert halls throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, Brazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Recent projects include commissions from pianist Ana Cervantes and the Colorado State University Percussion Ensemble.
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