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Concertante

After more than a decade before the public, CONCERTANTE has established itself as a chamber ensemble that combines in equal measure world class virtuosity and an adventurous willingness to explore and enhance the sextet repertoire. Based in New York and comprised of a core of six virtuoso string players, the group performs in varied combinations of instrumentalists in a wide repertoire array. As solo performers who have won important national and inter-national music competitions, they have appeared in such major venues as New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Royal Festival Hall, and Shanghai's Grand Theatre. In 2009-10 Concertante completed its One Plus Five project, an ambitious, six composer commissioning project that brought to the repertoire six new and notable sextets by Lowell Liebermann, Tigran Mansurian, Gabriela Frank, Kevin Puts, Shulamit Ran and Richard Danielpour. It has also offered infrequently performed chamber works by such celebrated composers as Enesco, John Adams, Schoenberg, Martinu, Korngold, and Frank Bridge, among others. www.concertante.org
Program:Richard Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85; Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4; Brahms: Sextet in B-flat Major, Op. 18