LARK Quartet / Chamber Artists
is pleased to announce the addition of Stephen Salters, Baritone to it's core member list, offering the following program for 08/09:

SINGING STRINGS – with Stephen Salters, Baritone
Samuel Barber: “Dover Beach” Op. 3 - SQ& Baritone
Theodore Wiprud: “American Journal” SQ& Baritone
Eleana Ruehr: "Song of the Silkie" SQ & Baritone
Ottorino Respighi "Il Tramonto" for SQ & Baritone

Stephen Salters’ passionate and impeccably articulated performances of a wide range of repertoire have won him acclaim throughout Europe, the UK, Asia and the United States. He works regularly with leading conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, James Conlon, Seiji Ozawa, Robert Spano, Nicholas McGegan, Keith Lockhart, Ivor Bolton, Will Crutchfield, Leonard Slatkin, Hugh Wolff, Bobby McFerrin, Jane Glover, Jeff Tyzik, and Martin Haselboeck.

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SAVE THE DATE!!!!!
Thursday January 10th, 8pm 2008 at the newly renovated Merkin Concert Hall

New York, NY – The Lark Chamber Artists will perform with a cast of world class guest artists; Gary Graffman, Larry Dutton, Ethos Percussion Group and Susan Glaser with a world premiere arrangement of John Adam’s “John’s book of alleged dances” on January 10th at 8 p.m. at Merkin Hall.

Ticket Information:
Tickets are $20. Tickets are available by phone at 212-501-3330 or at the Merkin Concert Hall Box Office, 129 West 67th Street.

http://www.kaufman-center.org/tc/0708/lark_011008.php

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CD Release - Order your copy today!!!

The Lark Quartet, Maria Bachmann and Deborah Buck violins; Kathryn Lockwood, viola and Astrid Schween, cello, are featured on Klap Ur Handz, a new Endeavor Classics recording. The CD of all American composers features world premieres by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) and Paul Moravec, a quartet by Peter Schickele, as well as never before recorded arrangements of five Gershwin songs.

This Klap Ur Handz recording of an American musical landscape represents the Lark Quartet’s long-time association with new music and adventuresome programming. The recording includes traditional string quartet performances and explores a fresh innovative style with contemporary music including a remix of Daniel Bernard Roumain’s (DBR) Quartet No. 5 with a hip-hop drum track featuring percussionist, Yousif Sheronick.

Performing with a unique blend of excitement, individuality, technical brilliance and an unusually sonorous quartet sound, the Lark Quartet is critically acclaimed for a strong presence of each member of the quartet. These performers have combined to form a “polished and warmly communicative ensemble” that delivers “a performance of grace, proportion, and burnished brilliance,” according to Tim Page of the Washington Post.

Program:

SCHICKELE: Scherzo from Quartet No. 2 “In Memoriam” · MORAVEC: Atmosfera a Villa Aurelia · Vince & Jan: 1945 · GERSHWIN (arr. Silverman): He Loves and She Loves · Fascinatin’ Rhythm · Do It Again · Clap Your Hands · Sweet & Low Down · ROUMAIN: Quartet No. 5 “Rosa Parks” · Klap Ur Hands [Remix with Percussion]


Preorder your copy from:
Allegro Music: (www.allegro-music.com)
http://www.allegro-music.com/online_catalog.asp?sku_tag=END31018
or
Amazon: (www.amazon.com)
http://www.amazon.com/Klap-Ur-Handz-Lark-Quartet/dp/B000I8OOPQ/ref=sr_11_1/104-2371450-1548730?ie=UTF8'

Lark Quartet to play in NYC on November 19th, 8pm
CD Release Concert
Merkin Concert Hall - Kaufman Center
129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023
Tickets: (212) 501 3303
http://www.kaufman-center.org/tc/0607/lark_111906.php

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Lark Quartet to play with Ethos Percussion Quartet
"Coming to America" Program Fall '07

…music without borders… Ethos Percussion Group & the Lark Quartet

The internet, global I-pod world is becoming increasingly smaller. Musicians around the globe are seeking common ground and a new breed of composers and music has emerged.

Having integrated various backgrounds and musical genres, these composers and performers know no borders. The Ethos Percussion Group and The Lark Quartet while classically trained, grew up with Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B, Hip-Hop, and World Music as well as their own personal musical heritages which range from the US and Europe to Lebanon, Russia, India, the Caribbean and beyond.

The collaboration brings these diverse cultural forces together in a unique blend. Like a spicy sauce creating a flavorful harmony from diverse ingredients, this music has a powerful new voice. With repertoire ranging from Peter Schickele and Daniel Bernard Roumain to Captain Beefheart and Riad El-Soumbati- Coming to America is a joyous taste of New World Music. http://baylinartists.com/ethos.htm#coming

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Lark Quartet on All Things Considered and Performance Today

Lark started the new year off with a bang sightreading a brand new commission on NPR as part of a piece on New York based composer Daniel Bernard Roumain on "All Things Considered": go to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5191628

All Things Considered, February 6, 2006 by Melissa Block · Daniel Bernard Roumain doesn't fit the image of a classical musician. The Haitian-American violinist and composer sports a silver nose ring and dreadlocks that reach to his waist. Roumain has coined a name for his style: "dred violin." Roumain is classically trained, but he gets just as much inspiration -- maybe more -- from jazz, rock and hip-hop. "The notion of what the violin represents and its history has nothing to do with what I represent," Roumain says. The dred violin "means more than black and white; it means a mixing -- a mixture, literally," he says. Roumain has his own nine-piece band, DBR & THE MISSION, which includes a string quartet, a rhythm section and a DJ, who beat-boxes and scratches. "What I set out to do was make the violin more reflective of who I am, and what I'm into," Roumain says. Rather than play the classics as they have been throughout the ages, he wonders where his culture fits into the mix. "Where does blackness come into play in the violin -- and more than that, where does hip-hop come in?" Roumain was raised in South Florida. He started playing violin when he was five. He did graduate studies under the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom. Now, Roumain has big-name collaborators, including the minimalist composer Philip Glass and choreographer Bill T. Jones. And he's got 10 commissions lined up, including a guitar concerto for the virtuoso Eliot Fisk, and a laptop concerto.
Roumain thinks his best work yet is his recently completed fifth string quartet, which was commissioned by the Lark Quartet. In one movement, the members have to clap, a feature he says was inspired by hip-hop rhythms but dates back to Cro-Magnon man. "There's something really communal about that," he says.

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Lark Quartet on Performance Today
"Performance Today" performing music of William Bolcom: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5162536
"Performance Today" performing music of George Gershwin: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5150548

in Residence at UMass/Amherst
The Lark Quartet successfully finished it's first year in residence at UMass/Amherst this season 05/06. Highlights included performing with faculty members, Micheal Sussman (Clarinet) and Estela Olevsky (Piano). The Quartet also awarded graduating student Amelia Clingman the "Chamber Graduate Award" and performed a movement of a Mozart Viola Quintet in the final concert of the year. (see photographs below)

Lark is looking forward to returning next fall on October 24th, 2006. Hope to see you there
Photos of Residency in Media Gallery.