WORLD PREMIERE BEATBOX: Concerto for String Quintet & Orchestra Dan Visconti | SYBARITE5

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WORLD PREMIERE
BEATBOX: Concerto for String Quintet & Orchestra
 
Dan Visconti | SYBARITE5
 
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Photo by Brian David Braun
One of the hottest 21st Century ensembles, SYBARITE5, meets a Rome Prize rising young composer, Dan Visconti, when BEATBOX: Concerto for String Quintet & Orchestra receives its world premiere on March 14, 2015. The first concerto ever written for string quintet and orchestra is inspired by America’s rich heritage of folk and vernacular styles.
SYBARITE5 has attracted enthusiastic audiences of all ages around the country with their fresh and dynamic programming, and Dan Visconti has written works for the Minnesota Orchestra, Kronos Quartet and the Berlin Philharmonic’s Scharoun Ensemble.

Come celebrate this exciting new addition to the repertoire by one of today’s most captivating artists.

Saturday, March 14 – 7:30pm
Saturday, April 18 – 8pm
Saturday, May 2 – 8 PM

DAN VISCONTI
Dan Visconti’s music has been commissioned by ensembles including the Kronos Quartet, Da Capo Chamber Players, Minnesota Orchestra, Albany Symphony, and Berlin Philharmonic Scharoun Ensemble, at venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, London’s Barbican Theatre and the Sydney Opera House. His compositions have been honored with the Rome Prize and Berlin Prize fellowships, the Bearns Prize from Columbia University, the International Barlow Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize; awards from BMI and ASCAP, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Naumburg Foundation; and grants from the Fromm Foundation, Meet the Composer, National Endowment for the Arts, and Chamber Music America. He has also been the recipient of artist fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Copland House, the Lucas Artists Program at Villa Montalvo, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Recordings of his music are available from Bridge Records, Naxos and Fleur de Son Classics. Visconti is a member of BMI and currently serves as artistic director of the VERGE Ensemble.

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