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Welcome to Jonathan Wentworth Associates, a respected resource for world-class fine arts music programming on tour. This is the place for new information on all our artists, including tour programs, audio clips and video links. Look to us for special projects including collaborations featuring images and music. Check this home page for news on artists and special projects in the Fanfare section below, and click on the links above to visit the artists by category.

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Elina Vähälä performs for world-wide audience at the Nobel Peace Prize Celebration



Acclaimed violinist Elina Vähälä performed the Nigel Hess Fantasy before a world-wide audience at the December 11th Nobel Peace Prize Ceremonies. Broadcast on CNN live, the concert was in honor of Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari of Finland. See & Hear More about Elina Vähälä.


First Person: Stories
From the Edge of the World

Stories from the Edge of the World

The National Geographic Society teams up with Ensemble Galilei and NPR's Neal Conan for the new show featuring music, narration and stunning photographs. Large format on-stage projections of spectacular images combine with Neal Conan's narration of original texts from some of the world's greatest explorers, and the gorgeous music of Ensemble Galilei. More

Universe of DreamsAnd click here for more information on
A Universe of Dreams: Ensemble Galilei with NPR's Talk of the Nation Host Neal Conan and Projected Images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Read a review of the music for this show.

 

Jason VieauxNEWS "Guitarist Is 1-Man String Section With Orchestra" says the Tampa Tribune. Jason Vieaux performs Villa Lobos with Pedro Halffter and the Florida Orchestra. Read more ... and new video.

Jason Vieaux's new CD, Images of Metheny (Azica) is receiving major attention in North America and abroad. The current issue of Guitart has this to say:

"There is a term used by jazz players called "playing in the pocket", encompassing laying on the back side of the rhythmic beat, conveying a sense of great ease and feel. This is rarely found on the classical guitar for various reasons, but in this case you have but to listen to the first track, Every Day (I thank you), to understand that Jason has this concept deeply engrained in his playing. At once, achingly beautiful and later progressing to more rhythmic devices, this extended work takes you on a sonic journey not easily forgotten. Jason nails the subtle techniques...Jason also set a number of Metheny’s works into a baroque suite, creating a beautifully realized old take on new pieces." More on Jason.


 

Fine Arts Quartet recording news

Adding to their already impressive collection of CDs on the Naxos label (part of a huge discography spanning six decades), the Fine Arts String Quartet has just recorded three Beethoven String Quintets with guest violist Gil Sharon. Nestled into the quartet's extensive fall 2008 European tour, the recordings were made in the Library of Wittem Monastery (Klooster Wittem) in The Netherlands. Photos and more on the recording session. More on the Fine Arts Quartet.  The quartet's new release of the Mendelssohn String Quintets (with Danilo Rossi) was named as Best Recording of 2008 by MusicWeb International's critic Terry Barfoot, who lauds the: "vibrant, brilliantly played performances".


News! Guitarist Jason Vieaux's new Bach CD debuts on Billboard's Classical Chart at #13. Read Gramophone review.

News!
Pianist Christopher Taylor performs works of Theresienstadt composers
Viktor Ullman and Wladyslaw Szpilman with the Colorado Symphony. The Denver Post writes: "Taylor, a versatile, ready-for-anything soloist, delivered a brilliant, intense performance". Read more.

News!
Kuerti at the Concertgebouw
The master pianist gave a June recital in Amsterdam at the famed Concertgebouw. His all-Beethoven program on the "Master Pianist" series garnered raves: "His passion left a lasting impression.... It seemed as though we were hearing a new score.....The great imagination Kuerti brought to the works elevated the performance to an absolutely top level. What perfection!" Noord-Hollands Dagblad
read more.

and in Boston...
Pianist Anton Kuerti steps in and saves the day for the Boston Symphony's March 12th concert. The Boston Globe hails Kuerti's work:
"... not a note had been taken for granted, with even the most prosaic p
assages refracted through a powerful intellectual prism." Read more...

Enchantment Theatre Company
Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd., is delighted to announce that The Enchantment Theatre Company has joined our roster for the symphony market. Their 2008/2009 programs include a new Scheherazade production. Read more about this acclaimed company. They have performed with the Symphonies of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Seattle and beyond.

Flutist Gary Schocker celebrated by Theodore Presser Publisher
Music publisher Theodore Presser Company celebrates the 50th birthday of flutist/composer Gary Schocker with a contest. Click here for more info.

Nordic Voices releases new CD - Djanki-Dong, on Aurora label

"The selection here encompasses micro-intervals which required long training to master, and tongue-twisting rhythmic constructions. And besides micro-tonality they incorporate in their work overtone singing and kveding (traditional Norwegian folk song)." [Musical Pointers] read more...


I Musici de Montreal tours Mussorgsky with "Pictures"

"...imaginative illustrations for the final musical work...expressive and highly inventive arrangements..." reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer

I Musci de Montreal

The exciting new tour programs from
I Musici de Montreal include the chamber orchestra version of Mussorgsky's famed Pictures at an Exhibition, complete with animated projections of new paintings by Natasha Turovsky. Videoclip. More


 

 

Katherine Chi charms Calgary

Pianist Katherine Chi returned to the Calgary Philharmonic to close this subscription season with a superb performance of the Rachmaninoff 2nd concerto. The Calgary Herald had this to say:

The main reason for
the full house was, of course, the appearance of Chi performing one of the most beloved of all piano concertos, the Rachmaninoff Second...beautifully poised and remarkable not only for her command of the brilliant passages but for the beautiful shaping of the melodies." Read more.


















 

 

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04/10/2009 10:33:04 AM.