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Neil B. Rolnick Featured composer Adam Schoenberg

The music of composer Adam Schoenberg (b. November 15, 1980 Northampton, MA) has an ability to create "mystery and sensuality"
(New York Times), and has been hailed as "stunning" (Memphis Commercial Appeal), and "open, bold, and optimistic" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). As the newest member of the Atlanta School of Composers, Schoenberg has been commissioned to write three works for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Recent commissions have also come from the Kansas City Symphony, Aspen Music Festival & School and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Atlanta Chamber Players, Quintet of the Americas, and The Blakemore Trio. Schoenberg will become the first Composer-in-Residence for the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern's tenure for the 2012/13 season. Schoenberg is the 2012 BMI Composer-in-Residence for the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, and the 2010-2012 guest composer for the Aspen Music Festival and School's M.O.R.E program.

He was a 2009 and 2010 MacDowell Fellow, and was the First Prize winner at the 2008 International Brass Chamber Music Festival for best Brass Quintet. In 2007, he was awarded ASCAP's Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Juilliard's Palmer- Dixon Prize for Most Outstanding Composition, and a Meet the Composer Grant. He received the 2006 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has garnered further acclaim from ASCAP and the Society for New Music.

Performance highlights include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Kansas CitySymphony, New World Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Aspen Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, IRIS Chamber Orchestra, Juilliard Symphony, Chicago Youth Symphony, New Juilliard Ensemble, and Boise Philharmonic Brass Ensemble. The American Brass Quintet released a CD of Schoenberg's quintet as part of their 50 th Anniversary CD, and Jack Sutte (Cleveland Orchestra) released a recording of Schoenberg's trumpet sonata, Separated by Space.

Schoenberg earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano and Robert Beaser. He also received his Master of Music degree from Juilliard and his Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

A committed educator, Schoenberg is on faculty at UCLA where he teaches undergraduate orchestration. He has presented lectures and master classes at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Juilliard School, University of Kansas, University of Missouri Kansas City, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Germantown Performing Arts Centre, Blair School of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival & School. Schoenberg currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, playwright and screenwriter Janine Salinas.

photo credit: Aleigh Lewis

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The Quintet on CD

SOUNDS OF BRAZIL

The Quintet announces the release of its exciting new recording, SOUNDS OF BRAZIL, on the MSR label. The music includes choros, lullabies and songs by Gaudencio Thiago de Mello who performs with the Quintet on his unique organic percussion from the Amazon. Thiago plays with the Quintet on works by Ernesto Nazareth and Pixinguinha as well. The Quintet is proud to include Changes, a work they commissioned by Brazilian-American pianist and composer Marcelo Zarvos. Rounding out the CD is Ventos, another Quintet commission by a gifted young composer on the New York scene, Ricardo Romaneiro. Guest artists include Blair McMillen on piano and Scott Kuney on guitar.

SOUNDS OF BRAZIL on the MSR Label

Karel Husa Recollections on the New World Records label.

Dancing in Colombia on the MSR Label - 15 Colombian dances including bambucos, pasillos, bundes and paseos.

Self Portrait on the CRI label - avant garde music for Quintet including works by Pauline Oliveros, Elliot Sharp, Amy Rubin, Christopher Culpo and Lee Hyla

Discovering the New World on the MMC label - music from the Carnegie Hall Concert (Louis Ballard, William Thomas McKinley, Roberto Sierra, and "America (Suite Popular)" - Ilan Rechtman).

Souvenirs, 20 Musical Mementos from the New World on the XLNT label - Samuel Barber's "Summer Music" and many Quintet favorites.

See the Quintet on Youtube

Quintet on Youtube

April 14-29, 2012

2012 Queens Symphony Arts Festival
1001 Voices - Discover the Immigrant Experience in Queens

Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 5:00PM

Random Access Music' Queens New Music Festival
Little Secret Theatre (Studio 104, 44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, Queens).
for tickets: (718) 433-2733 or contact http://ram-nyc.org/ or read more on http://tunes.broadwayworld.com

Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 2:30PM Celebrate Father's Day!

Birds in the Garden at the Queens Botanical Garden
43-50 Main Street, Flushing, Queens, NY

Watch the Quintet play in "El Picaflor"

Quintet of the Americas visits the New York Hall of Science and Flushing Meadow Park. Hear El Picaflor (also available for download on Amazon from the Dancing in Colombia CD.)

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Listen to the Quintet

	Wiggle Room First movement of Short Winds (2010) by Sean Friar recorded live at Princeton University April 26, 2011
	Sfumato I Vivace, by Yao Chen The Quintet of the Americas
	Sfumato II Adagi, by Yao Chen The Quintet of the Americas
	Ambos Mundos, Shadow Quartet, Neil Rolnick The Quintet of the Americas
	Mo Suo's Burial, The Quintet of the Americas

Our website improvements have been made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts with support made possible through the JPMorgan Chase Arts and Culture Regrants Program.

Special thanks to our major supporters:

Bloomberg Philanthropies
The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation