The Fredonia Wind Quintet will present a recital including a variety of music genres on Monday, Oct. 15, at 8 p.m., in Rosch Recital Hall.
The event is free and the public is invited to attend.
The quintet includes School of Music faculty members Barry Crawford on flute, Dr. Sarah Hamilton on oboe, Dr. Andrew Seigel on clarinet, Associate Director/Associate Professor Laura Koepke on bassoon and Dr. Marc Guy on horn. It will be Assistant Professor Crawford’s inaugural concert as a faculty member with the ensemble. The group will be joined by bassist and Assistant Professor Kieran Hanlon and pianist Dr. Anne Kissel, also School of Music faculty members.
First to be performed will be a work by Robert Muczynski, Quintet for Winds, op. 45, that was written in 1985 for the University of Oklahoma Faculty Wind Quintet, and described as a short, energetic work in three movements.
Mr. Hanlon and Dr. Kissel will join the group for the rest of the program. Hanlon, assistant professor of bass, and has arranged two works for the quintet. First will be Antonio Carlos Jobim's popular "The Girl from Ipanema," which will be followed by Hanlon’s hybrid arrangement “Apple Rose”, which combines Fats Waller’s “Honeysuckle Rose” and the Charlie Parker’s contrafact melody over that tune, “Scrapple from the Apple.”
The third selection is an arrangement of the fantastic Piano Quintet in E flat, op. 44 by Robert Schumann. Mr. Schumann wrote it in 1842 for piano and string quartet, but it has been arranged for piano and wind quintet by Robert Patterson. Dr. Kissel, who heads the School of Music’s collaborative piano program, will be joining the group for what is frequently described as one of the best pieces of chamber music ever written.
A faculty ensemble in residence at the School of Music the Fredonia Wind Quintet’s tours of New York have taken them to all corners of the state, playing community concerts and giving educational performances and workshops. Established in 1950, the quintet’s performances have been described as “excellent – unforgettable – inspirational,” and have inspired a renaissance of woodwind chamber music programs in high schools and colleges.
The quintet has developed many imaginative educational programs for community organizations and for public schools in partnership with the Arts Council for Chautauqua County Arts-in-Education program and the Western New York Institute for Arts-in-Education. In many cases, these programs have involved cooperative program development with classes in social studies, language arts and science, as well as music.
