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March 19, 2007
Academy Wind Ensemble Program Features Work by Oscar-Winning Composer
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music's faculty wind ensemble, Academy Winds, will present a concert featuring a Beethoven quintet, bagatelles by Ligeti and shanties by Malcolm Arnold, on Sunday, April 22 at 3:00 p.m. at St. James Episcopal Church, Duke and Orange Streets in Lancaster. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for non-Academy students and can be reserved by calling 717.399.9733.
Malcolm Arnold, the composer of “Three Shanties for Wind Quintet” on the program, is probably best known to general audiences as the composer of some well-known film music, including the music to “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” for which he won an Oscar. Gyorgy Ligeti, whose Six Bagatelles will be on the program, had excerpts from his Lux Aeterna, Atmospheres, Aventures, and Requiem featured in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
The Academy Winds is made up of Jennifer Grim, flute; Geoffrey Deemer, oboe; Doris Hall-Gulati, clarinet; Kimberly Kelley, bassoon; and Andrew Downing, French horn. It is one of several Ensembles-in-Residence at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music comprised of Academy faculty members with distinguished performing careers. They have presented numerous outreach programs over the past few years for thousands of students in the region, inspiring many young artists.
Flutist Jennifer Grim has been hailed by the New York Times as “a deft, smooth flute soloist,” and has performed across the United States as an active solo and chamber musician of both the classic literature and contemporary music. A first prize-winner in several national chamber music competitions, Grim has performed with such groups as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. She is the flutist in the award-winning ensemble, the Zéphyros Winds, a woodwind quintet based in New York.
Geoffrey Deemer, Oboe, has been principal oboe of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia since 2002. He has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony. From 1997-2001, Deemer was the principal oboe of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Deemer also teaches at Franklin and Marshall College.
Clarinetist Doris Hall-Gulati has been praised by the New York Times for her “virtuosity and nuance.” The First Prize winner in the Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition, Hall-Gulati made her Carnegie (Weill) Hall debut playing with the Alaria Chamber Ensemble, and her Merkin Hall debut premiering Thea Musgrave's “Ring Out Wild Bells” with the Philadelphia Trio. Hall-Gulati can be heard on the MMC, Naxos and New World record labels and as Principal Clarinet in The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Berkshire Opera Festivals, as well as Bass Clarinetist in The Opera Company of Philadelphia. She is also on the faculty of Franklin and Marshall College.
Andrew Downing, French Horn, has performed with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia of Greensboro, the New York Opera and Musical Theater Orchestra, and the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra. As a studio artist, he frequently records music for radio and television with NHK Broadcasting's Washington, DC affiliate. He is a founding member of the Inscape Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble dedicated to the performance of traditional and avant-garde music for orchestra and chamber ensemble. As a chamber artist, he has also performed with the Carolina Brass, National Philharmonic Wind Quintet, and the Philharmonia Ensemble.
Bassoonist Kimberly D. Buchar Kelley received her degrees in bassoon performance from the Harid Conservatory in 1997, the Eastman School of Music in 1999, and finished her D.M.A. at the University of Illinois in May 2005. Kelley has taught bassoon and classes at numerous fine colleges and has performed in various orchestral and chamber groups such as the Illinois Symphony, New World Symphony, Palm Beach Opera, Sinfonia da Camera, BACH Ensemble, Lancaster Symphony, York Symphony, the Trelumina Trio, and other chamber groups. Currently, she teaches bassoon at several colleges in the region.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music is a non-profit pre-collegiate institution dedicated to the musical advancement of its students. Founded in 1990, the Academy attracts students from an immediate nine-county area as well as from around the world, who study disciplines ranging from instrumental, chamber music, orchestra, opera and vocal performance to music composition and theory, improvisation, accompanying ,jazz and recording. The Academy has a widely accomplished international faculty and is one of only 12 autonomous pre-collegiate music schools in the country accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
