The OMNI Ensemble begins its 32nd season of concerts.
Music Director/Flutist David Wechsler and cellist Brian Snow will be joined by violinists Janey Choi and Carrie Dowell, and violist Louis Day for an evening of flute and string music.
The performance will include: Ernst Dohnányi’s Serenade for violin, viola and cello; Amy Beach’s Theme and Variations for flute and string quartet; Luigi Boccherini’s flute quintets; Beethoven’s Serenade for flute, violin and viola; and John Coltrane’s Blue Train and Michael Brecker’s Sea Glass, arranged for flute and string quartet by David Wechsler.
Continuing as the chamber music group in residence at the Brooklyn Conservatory, the OMNI Ensemble will continue to perform concerts of enormous variety all designed to provide their audience with a musical diversity not ordinarily encountered by one chamber music group.
The OMNI Ensemble is a chamber music created to perform programs of enormous variety, with music ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century, including Western classical music, jazz, and electronic and improvised music, all designed to provide their audience with a musical experience not ordinarily encountered in a single music event. Since its inception in 1983 the group has featured many guest artists including multi instrumentalist/composer David Amram, performance artist John Kelley, Singer Erika Banks, Kumongo player Jin Hi Kim, Saxophonist Roy Nathanson, Mezzo Sopranos Catherine Ciesinski and Charlotte Hellekant, Harpsichordists Gerald Ranck and Rebecca Pechevsky, and keyboardist Marco Benevento. The group has commissioned works by David Lang, Lee Hyla, Allen Shearson, & Michael Bushnell, and performed new pieces by Jim Lahti, Eric Klein, and David Wechsler.
This concert is made possible, in part with funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts, the Brooklyn Community Foundation, and Con Edison.
