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2023-24

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Department of Music and Theatre University at Albany presents:

Q UINTOCRACY Melanie Chirignan, flute Nate Finke, bassoon Ye Hu, clarinet Kelly Lockwood, oboe Joshua Thompson, horn

Monday, November 27, 2023 at 6:15pm

Recital Hall UAlbany Performing Arts Center

Program Color Wheels

for alto flute and electronics

Chaconne Op. 8 for flute and oboe

Rigadoun and Novelette for flute, oboe, bassoon

From the Folk

for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon I. Song II. Dance

The Brownies from Summer Dreams Op. 47 Pastorale for Wind Quintet Op. 151 Woodwind Quintet No. 3. Suite from China West I. Introduction II. Zang Songs III. Miao Dances

Wind Quintet

I. Allegro; with rhythmic vitality II. Introduction III. Playful

I Dunno, But...Whatever.

Allison Loggins-Hull

Cecile Chaminade

Judith Zaimont

Amy Beach arr. John Gibson Amy Beach

Chen Yi

Beata Moon

Myrtle Thomas

About the Artists

The wind quintet Quintocracy, based in the Capital District of New York, presents concerts and workshops throughout the area and beyond. Quintocracy has a diverse repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the present, including works written expressly for the quintet. Coming together in January 2019 with the idea that chamber music is for everyone—meaning not just for the concert hall, but also for museums, churches, libraries, school presentations, and house concerts as well—the members of Quintocracy set their goal to build community, by performing exemplary music programs and engaging audiences through conversation and humor. Quintocracy partnered with the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (TSBMH) as artists in residence and presented a four-part concert series featuring women composers. As a part of this residency, Quintocracy teamed up to be a part of the TSBMH outreach program, whose goals are to bring music to the Troy City School District after-school program with plans to

extend the outreach to other Capital Region school districts and programs. Continuing the focus on building community, the quintet performed Creative Pairings concerts combining cuisine with cultural music including Tunes and Tacos and Crepes and Classical music a la Francaise. Quintocracy has performed in the TSBMH Music at Noon concert series, at Round Lake Auditorium, the College of Saint Rose, the New York State Museum, the Albany International Airport, Westminster Presbyterian church, on the St. Andrews’s Russel Field Concert Series, Troy Public Library, the Concert at the Gazebo Series in Niskayuna Town Hall, the Freedom Park Series, and has been awarded Musician Performance Trust Fund grants from the local musicians’ unions to perform at nearby schools. Quintocracy has been awarded the Schenectady Community Arts grant and premiered Tales and Toots, newly composed music to accompany the beautiful story Keller’s Heart written by John Gray. In 2021, the group was awarded another Schenectady Community Arts grant to work with Electric City Puppets to dramatize the Peter and the Wolf-like Piece, Berus in the Woods by Alexander Ford which premiered at Proctors, where they performed for over 500 students at TSBMH. The group continued on to win an award from Saratoga Arts to commission new music for the silent films Nosferatu as well as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by local composers. Members have performed regionally with the Glens Falls Symphony, Octavo Singers, Albany Pro Musica, the Albany Symphony, as well as at Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, Symphony Space in New York City, and for Amazon’s television show Mozart in the Jungle.

Many Thanks This performance has been made possible by: MPTF Jim Clark Community Performance Fund New York Women Composers Seed Money Grant University Auxiliary Services

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Dayton Contemporary Dance Co October 20 Passion Fruit Dance Co November 4

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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Co December 2 Photo: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company

Mark Morris Dance Group January 25 Ellen Sinopoli Dance Co with Capital Trio - January 27 * Monica Bill Barnes & Co February 3 No Gravity Theatre February 9 Savion Glover April 13 Ellen Sinopoli Dance Co May 18 Packages also available for choice of five or three at 25% or 10% discounts, respectively.

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