Vento Chiaro

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Vento Chiaro is a wind quintet founded in 1997 at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland and now based in the greater Boston area.

Wind quintet group of five wind players

A wind quintet, also known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players. Some quintets alternatively use an English horn instead of a French horn. The term also applies to a composition for such a group.

Peabody Institute Conservatory and university-prep school

The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is a conservatory and university-preparatory school in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood of northern Baltimore, Maryland, United States, facing the landmark Washington Monument circle at the southeast corner of North Charles and East Monument Streets.

Boston Capital city of Massachusetts, United States

Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city proper covers 48 square miles (124 km2) with an estimated population of 685,094 in 2017, making it also the most populous city in New England. Boston is the seat of Suffolk County as well, although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest such area in the country. As a combined statistical area (CSA), this wider commuting region is home to some 8.2 million people, making it the sixth-largest in the United States.

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History

The quintet was founded in 1997 by flautist Johanna Goldstein at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland. [1] It relocated to the Boston area in 1999 when it became the ensemble-in-residence the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 2002 it has served on the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Wind Ensemble. [2] In 2008, the ensemble released their debut recording, Vento Chiaro: Music for Wind Quintet on Ongaku Records. [3]

Boston University Tanglewood Institute

Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) is a summer music training program for students ages 10 to 20 located in Lenox, Massachusetts, under the auspices of Boston University College of Fine Arts.

Members

The current members of Vento Chiaro are:

Awards

The Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition is the largest and oldest continuous chamber music competition in the United States.

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References

  1. ↑ Wertheimer, Linda K. (26 July 2009). "This woodwind quintet proves it has staying power". Boston Globe . Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  2. ↑ Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Affiliated Ensembles and Organizations. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Kaplan, Richard (March 2009). "Review: Rhapsodie Française/Quintet for Winds". Fanfare Magazine . Retrieved 5 October 2011 (subscription required).
  4. ↑ Henken, John (2 May 2000). "Woodwinds Steal the Show at Coleman Chamber Contest". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  5. ↑ Richard Buell, Richard (29 May 2000). "Quintet's Daring May Skip Some Detail". Boston Globe. Retrieved 5 October 2011 (subscription required).
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