Update!
Thank you for helping us reach our goal earlier this week! We appreciate all the support from our family and friends and thought we'd take this opportunity to offer add an additional option to help us support our projects. We are recording the Navajo Mandala by Kerry Turner this August with the Phoenix Chamber Brass and are hoping to raise an additional $500 to help fund this recording. Digital downloads will be available at the same time as our CD release and will be included on any funding contribution given before or after this update!
Navajo Mandala by Kerry Turner
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Commissioned
by the United States Air Forces in Europe Band. It is a sonic depiction
of a mandala that was created by Navajo Indians. The symmetric,
labyrinth-like circular patterns of the mandala are paralleled in this
interesting piece for combined woodwind and brass quintets and
percussion. Mill Ave Chamber Players and Phoenix Chamber Brass gave the
US premiere of this work in 2012 at the Southwest Horn Conference and
will record it this fall in Phoenix, Arizona!
Short Summary
The Mill Ave Chamber Players has spent the 2013-2014 performing transcriptions of works for string quartet, brass quintet, and piano. We look forward to sharing these works with a wider audience by recording our first CD!
As individual members of the ensemble, we are each contributing to the success of the CD, and hoping that this campaign will help us fund the remainder of the project.
This CD will include MACP members: Monica Anthony (flute),Nikolaus Flickinger (oboe),Erin Finkelstein (clarinet), Rose French (horn), and guest artist David Wells (bassoon). Dr. Wells joins us from Sacramento, CA and performed with the Mill Ave Chamber Players during their residency at the University of the Pacific in March 2014.
As a thank you for your contribution, we are offering various gifts, including a copy of the CD, based upon your level of support.
This recording will take place in June 2014 and the CD will be available in September 2014, during our CD release party. After that, we will mail all CDs and other great thank you items to our financial backers of this project!
THANK YOU!
Mill Ave Chamber Players
A Little Help From Our Friends
- We are looking to raise at least $2,000 to pay for the recording of the album, editing, mastering, and CD art work - all work done locally in Phoenix, AZ.
- From $5 to $2,000, we appreciate every contribution that we receive! We have unique gifts including a private concert and a framed poster of the original artwork from the CD.
About Mill Ave Chamber Players
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The Mill Ave Chamber Players is a professional chamber music ensemble based in Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2007 with an entrepreneurial grant from Arizona State University. With a woodwind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon) as the core ensemble, the Mill Ave Chamber Players often collaborates with other musicians to offer a wide range of programming.
The Mill Ave Chamber Players (MACP) are celebrating their second season as the presenting artists at the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts, will begin its fourth season of morning chamber music concerts at the United Church of Sun City (AZ), and will be releasing their first CD in the fall of 2014.
With education and outreach as its core goals, the MACP received the Performing Arts Partnership Grant from the city of Glendale (AZ) to continue the 25 year-old “Live at the Library” series at the Glendale Public Library, was awarded a grant from the City of Phoenix to participate in ARTSpace, an after-school program, has held instrument fundraisers for deserving area high school students, held concerts for the students of Rosie’s House: A Music Academy for Children and Phoenix Children’s First Academy, the largest school for homeless children in the nation, and partnered with the West Valley Symphony to perform for over 1000 students in the Peoria Unified School District. The Mill Ave Chamber Players has held residencies at the University of the Pacific, Glendale Community College, and Paradise Valley Community College and will hold its first chamber music camp in the summer of 2014.
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Featured performances of Mill Ave Chamber Players include a premiere of John Steinmetz’s dectet with the composer and faculty at the University of the Pacific, the International CALA (Celebración Artística de las Américas) Festival, and, the Southwest Horn Conference where, in collaboration with the Phoenix Chamber Brass, gave the US Premiere of Navajo Mandala by Kerry Turner.
