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September 3, 2004

Boise Chamber Music Series Announces 2004-2005 Season

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The Boise Chamber Music Society and the Boise State University Department of Music will host four world-class chamber music groups during the 2004-05 season of the Boise Chamber Music Series. Single tickets for each concert are $20 and $15 and will be available a week before the event by calling 426-1216. All concerts start at 8 p.m. in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. Opening the series on Sept. 17 is the St. Petersburg String Quartet, returning to perform a program of quartets by Alexander Glazunov, Shostakovich, Smetana, and Natalia Medvedovskaya, a young Russian woman who wrote her �Quartet No. 1� at the age of 18. One of the world�s leading string quartets, the St. Petersburg was founded as the Leningrad Quartet by Alla Aranovskaya and Leonid Shukaev. The Quartet has achieved a Grammy nomination, �Best Record� honors in both Stereo Review and Gramophon, and the Chamber Music America/WQXR Prize for Best CD of 2001. A free �Morning Music� workshop will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. On Nov. 19, eighth blackbird, regarded as one of the premier new music groups in the world, will perform a cutting-edge concert of works by George Perle, Kaija Saariaho, George Crumb, Frederic Rzewski and Jennifer Higdon. The winner of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, where it was the first contemporary ensemble to win first prize, the group is also a three-time recipient of the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. This group has been featured on CBS� �Sunday Morning� and was the subject of a profile in The New York Times and NPR�s �All Things Considered.� The group, consisting of six musicians � pianist Lisa Kaplan, violin/violist Matt Albert, percussionist Matthew Duvall, clarinetist Michael J. Maccaferri, cellist Nicholas Photinos and flutist Molly Alicia Barth � derives its name from the Wallace Stevens poem �Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.� Of special interest is a free mini-concert by eighth blackbird at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 20, in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. This special, educational event is open to the public and is sponsored in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. No tickets are required. The Osiris Piano Trio on Feb. 18 and the St. Lawrence String Quartet on March 11 complete the four-concert series, each with special educational events for students of all ages. For more information about the series, call Jeanne Belfy at 426-1216. -30- Contact: Jeanne Belfy, Music Department, (208) 426-1216, jbelfy@boisestate.edu  Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, communications and marketing, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu

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