Chamber Players International Presents Manhattan Concerts  Chamber Players International will present two Manhattan concerts: Friday, October 21 - 7:00 PM at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, 44 Charlton Street. This will be a fundraiser in conjunction with GrowNYC and New York State Farmers affected by Hurricane Irene. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the recovery fund to help GrowNYC's Greenmarket farmers who were severely affected by Tropical Storms Irene and Lee in early September. And Sunday, October 23 - 3:00 PM at The Dimenna Center for Classical Music, 38th Street and 10th Avenue. Repertoire for both concerts will be the World Premiere of Reinhard Seehafer's Piano Quintet, which consists of four movements: I Adagio, II Scherzo Prestissimo, III Andante assai and IV Allegretto scherzando, along with Beethoven's String Trio Op 9, in G. Performers will be guest artist Mr. Seehafer, pianist and composer, along with Anna Rabinova violin, David Lisker violin, Bela Horvath, viola and Hiro Matsuo, cello. Tickets for the October 21 GrowNYC concert are $25 and are available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/205473 or at the door the night of the event. To learn more about GrowNYC, visit http://www.grownyc.org. Tickets for the October 23 concert are $20. For tickets and more information, contact Chamber Players International toll-free at 877-444-4488 or visit http://chamberplayersinternational.org/. Reinhard Seehafer has dedicated himself to various genres and styles. In addition to chamber music and opera, large symphonic works hold a central position in his activities as a composer. His major works include the composition Parable named after Lessing's Nathan the Wise. This was given its World Premiere at the Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing, China. Other important works include the trio Six variations sur une theme des trouveres, Amadeus-Fantasy and Land of Enchantment. In 2007, Seehafer created a newly reconstructed version of Germany's first opera, Dafne which was lost during the Thirty Years' War, on the basis of the original libretto by Martin Opitz to music by Heinrich Schutz. Visit him at http://www.reinhard-seehafer.com/english/. Celebrating their 40th anniversary season, Chamber Players International is a major regional presenting and performing arts organization, presenting between 25 and 30 concert events serving the entire New York metropolitan area. Its artistic mission is to bring chamber music and chamber orchestra performances of the highest artistic quality to audiences throughout the area with such world-renowned ensembles as the Orchestre de Chambre Francais, the International Chamber Orchestra of Rome and New York core-ensemble members as violinists Dmitry Berlinski, Ana Rabinova and Erin Keefe, violists Mark Holloway, Maurycy Banaszek and Catherine Greene, cellists Qiang Tu and Andrey Tchekmazov, and pianists Tatiana Goncharova and Mirian Conti. Visit them online at http://chamberplayersinternational.org/. For photos or other press inquires, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net. -30- |
