NORTH/SOUTH CONSONANCE Inc. is pleased to announce plans for its 2007-08 concert series featuring music by composers from Asia, Europe and the Americas.
The upcoming season will mark the 28th consecutive year of activities by this non-profit organization devoted to the promotion, performance and recording of music by living composers.
Eight free-admission events will be presented at the auditorium of Christ and St. Stephen’s Church (120 West 69th St) in New York City. The concerts will feature will feature the acclaimed North/South Chamber Orchestra and distinguished soloists including Melissa Fogarty and Lynn Owen, sopranos; Renee Jolles and Claudia Schaer, violin; Rita Porfiris, viola; James Pellerite, native American flute; Susan Jolles, harp; Claudia Knafo, piano; and pianist/conductor Max Lifchitz.
Recent works by composers representing diverse aesthetic orientations and hailing from throughout the Americas, Switzerland and China and will be performed. They include: Rafael Aponte-Ledée, Elizabeth Bell, Victoria Bond, Hayg Boyadjian, Eleanor Cory, Christopher Dietz, Kenneth D. Froelich, Christopher James, Lei Liang, Rami Levin, José Lezcano, Max Lifchitz, Binnette Lipper, Tudor Dominik Maican, Richard Owen, Howeard Quilling, Dominique Schafer, Harold Schiffman, Hilary Tann, Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, Jorge Vidales, Awilda Villarini, Rain Worthington, Gregg Wramage & Marilyn J. Ziffrin.
Many of the featured composers will be present at the concerts to introduce their music and meet with the public. They will work closely with the musician members of the North/South Consonance Ensemble to insure befitting performance of their works.
NORTH/SOUTH CONSONANCE's 2007-08 season is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support for these free admission events is being provided the American Federation of Musicians (Local 802); New York Women Composers, Inc and many generous individual donors.
For more information about this exciting concert series please visit
http://www.northsouthmusic.org
