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Imani Winds in Edmonton

Date: 
03/14/2010 - 14:00
Location: 
Canada: Edmonton AB
Work Performed: 
Quinteto em forma de choros

Edmonton Chamber Music Society

Imani Winds

Sunday, March 14, 2010
2 PM
Convocation Hall
University of Alberta
VALERIE COLEMAN Flute TOYIN SPELLMAN-DIAZ Oboe
MARIAM ADAM Clarinet JEFF SCOTT French horn
MONICA ELLIS Bassoon

The talented young musicians who, in 1997, founded that rarity - a wind quintet - have emerged as one of America's most exciting and inspiring ensembles. Musical innovators as well as virtuoso performers, the Imani Winds have expanded the repertoire and audience for wind quintets with unique collaborations and new commissioned works. From the jazz and Latin idioms in performances with Wayne Shorter, Chris Brubeck and Paquito d'Rivera to the African and Middle Eastern influences in their own compositions and arrangements, they invigorate and enrich the classical tradition.

Their concert program links many worlds and eras with works by Maurice Ravel, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Sándor Veress, the young American jazz pianist Jason Moran, and Imani Winds' own Valerie Coleman.