Tickets, at $94, 57, 38, may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in NYC. For more information, call our Box Office at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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Drew Collins, conductor, is currently the associate director of choral studies at Wright State University (Dayton, OH), where he also teaches courses in music education. He has presented sessions by invitation for the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) and American Choral Directors' Association. He writes the repertoire forum for Choral Director Magazine. Mr. Collins criss-crosses the United States each year as a festival clinician and guest conductor. His professional conducting work includes serving as musical and artistic director for ensembles in Boston and Minneapolis. He has conducted performance tours with choirs in the continental United States and in Europe. He serves as artistic advisor to both the Minnesota Choral Artists and North Coast Singers (San Diego, CA). Mr. Collins is himself a published composer, with works in the catalogs of choral music's most prominent publishing houses.

David L. Brunner is acclaimed as a dynamic conductor, inspired teacher and imaginative composer. He is professor of music and director of choral activities at the University of Central Florida in Orlando and is well known for his imaginative and compelling work with singers of all ages, conducting all-state and regional honor choirs throughout the United States at the elementary, middle and high school levels. He has appeared in 25 states and in Canada, Europe, the UK and Australia as a popular clinician at choral festivals and educational workshops. Mr. Brunner is a prolific choral writer whose works have been performed and recorded worldwide. He has received commissions on more than 60 occasions and has received numerous ASCAP awards. He has served on the editorial board for the Choral Journal and is the author of articles in both the Choral Journal and Music Educators Journal.

Stephen Alltop has been a member of Northwestern University's conducting faculty since 1992. He has coordinated and conducted Northwestern's Dunbar Early Festival performances and scholarly activities. Mr. Alltop has led numerous world premieres and worked with leading contemporary composers. He has received critical acclaim for his work as a guest conductor with orchestras and choruses across the United States and in Italy. He presently serves as music director of the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, and Green Lake Choral Institute; and as associate conductor of the Peninsula Music Festival. Under his leadership, the Apollo Chorus has performed at Chicago's Orchestra Hall, the Ravinia Festival, and other major venues.

Joanna Medawar Nachef is recognized as the first woman conductor from the Middle East. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Ms. Nachef moved to Los Angeles in 1977. She is the director of choral activities at El Camino College. Ms. Nachef is on the faculty of California State University- Dominguez Hills and the California Academy of Mathematics and Science, and she is the artistic director for Los Cancioñeros Master Chorale. She served as minister of music at Peninsula Community Church from 1980 to 1997, and is currently their choir director. Ms. Nachef has directed in guest appearances in motion pictures, and with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra of Orange County and the Carson-Dominguez Hills Orchestra. Internationally, she has conducted her community chorus in Eastern Europe and Canada, and she has been touring with the El Camino College Chorale since 1997. The City of Torrance Cultural Arts Commission honored Ms. Nachef with the "2005 Excellence in Arts Award" in music.

David T. Vickerman is in his fourth year as director of bands at Lodi High School, Lodi, California. From 2002 to 2003, he held the position of music director at Hilmar High School in Hilmar, California. In 2002, Mr. Vickerman was selected to participate in the U.S. Air Force "Band of the Golden West Conducting Workshop," working with H. Robert Reynolds. For the past two summers, he has worked with Michael Haithcock at the University of Michigan and with Jerry Junkin at the University of Texas. Mr. Vickerman has served as student conductor for the CSU Stanislaus Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band and Brass Ensemble as well as rehearsal conductor for the CSU Stanislaus Symphony Orchestra. Two years ago, Mr. Vickerman received the Gilbert T. Freitas award from CMEA Bay Section for "Outstanding Achievement in Musical Education." He created and is the artistic director and conductor of a professional chamber winds group, The Lodi Chamber Winds.

Mark Wurst has been the band and orchestra director at Mountain Vista High School in Douglas County, CO, since the school opened in 2001. He has served as guest clinician throughout the state of Colorado, most recently as guest conductor for the Best of the West Honor Band sponsored by Mesa State College. Mr. Wurst is in his 27th year teaching music. The Mountain Vista Wind Ensemble is one of three concert bands at Mountain Vista, comprised of the top 65 players. In 2005 the MVHS Music Department toured Europe, performing in Prague, Czech Republic and in the New Year's Eve Celebration in Vienna, Austria.

Over the past 23 years, MidAmerica Productions has brought together conductors, choruses, soloists, and orchestral musicians for performances at some of the world's greatest venues, especially at New York's Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

Under the guidance of MidAmerica's founder, Peter Tiboris, the company has presented over 870 concerts worldwide and more than 740 in New York at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

More than 2500 American ensembles, representing each of the 50 states, have appeared with MidAmerica in New York, as have more than 100 symphonic and choral ensembles from Europe, the Far East, South America, and Canada. There have more than 300 guest conductors, 650 solo artists, and over 100,000 performers who have appeared on MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall.

In addition to presenting classic choral and instrumental works, MidAmerica Productions has championed the works of contemporary composers. On MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, there have been approximately 31 World Premieres, 16 United States Premieres, and 50 New York Premieres.

For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact Susan Case at 212-239-0205 or scase@midamerica-music.com

Tickets, at $94, 57, 38, may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in NYC. For more information, call our Box Office at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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Bonnie Borshay Sneed is director of choral activities and associate professor of music at Dennison University in Granville, Ohio. From 1991 to 2003 she was director of choral activities at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and twice toured Europe with the UAH Choirs. In 2004 she conducted the Morski Zgutsi community choir of Varna, Bulgaria in the sixth annual Varna International Conductors workshop. In 2006, Ms. Sneed conducted the Denison University Chamber Singers and Orchestra on an eight-day tour of Italy. Ms. Sneed has edited Renaissance choral octavos for National Music Publishing, which published her arrangement for choir and chamber orchestra of the Finale to Mahler's Symphony No. 2, and she has published articles and reviews in the Choral Journal.

Todd Randall Miller has conducted the Kingwood (Texas) Chorale and Chamber Orchestra since 1996. Under his baton, the KC and CO has performed most of the moderate-length choral masterworks dating from the Baroque through the 20th century for the greater Northeast Houston community. Mr. Miller is also professor of music at Kingwood College and serves as music director of Strawbridge United Methodist Church of Kingwood. In the March 12 concert, he conducts the Kingwood Area Grand Chorus, made up of members of ten different singing groups in the Kingwood, Texas area.

Steven Edwards has served as music director of the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans since August of 1990, preparing and/or conducting the chorus for more than a hundred performances with the New Orleans Symphony and its successor, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Under his direction the chorus has enjoyed critical acclaim and garnered numerous awards for the quality and variety of its performances. Mr. Edwards is also professor of music at Delgado Community College in New Orleans, and previously worked as director of choral activities at colleges in Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. A popular guest conductor, he has appeared with various orchestras and at numerous festivals, contests and honor choirs throughout the United States.

Soprano Amy Butterworth received critical praise for her performance in the role of Arkadina in the New York premiere of Thomas Pasatieri's The Seagull. Recently seen with New Jersey Opera Theatre as Ines in a concert performance of Il Trovatore and the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, she has had a steady procession of acclaimed solo performances. She has been a featured soloist with the Bronx Arts Ensemble, Opera Roanoke's Great Opera Choruses and Stars of the Future concerts, and performed a solo recital in Salzburg, Austria.

Mezzo-soprano Juliana Anderson recently performed the role of the Second Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with L'Opéra de Montréal and made her Carnegie Hall debut as the alto soloist in Handel's Messiah with Musica Sacra. She has performed numerous opera roles with Florida Grand Opera's Young Artist Program and companies including the Sarasota, Inwood, and Atlanta Opera companies, North Carolina Symphony, and the International Music Festival at Lyric Opera of Chicago. She is a member of the Extra Chorus at the Metropolitan Opera and is frequently heard in recital and featured solo work in the tri-state area.

Tenor Bryan Register has appeared in many new or rarely performed works including Daniel Dorff's Stone Soup, the American premiere of Martinu's Hlas Lesa, Shiela Silver's The Thief of Love, Charles Wuorinen's Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Anton Coppola's Sacco and Vanzetti and others. His standard repertory includes Don José in Carmen, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte, and Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor with companies including San Diego, Virginia and Tulsa Operas. Mr. Register also appears frequently as a soloist with symphony orchestras.

Baritone Jeffrey Buchman won the fifth Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, and made his New York City debut in "Pavarotti Plus" at Lincoln Center. He has enjoyed great successes in the title role of Don Giovanni, as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Marcello in La bohème, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Valentin in Faust, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Slim in Of Mice and Men, among others. He has performed with opera companies all over the United States and in Hong Kong, and in concert with the Opera Orchestra of New York, and Norwalk, Kentucky, and Colorado symphonies.

Over the past 23 years, MidAmerica Productions has brought together conductors, choruses, soloists, and orchestral musicians for performances at some of the world's greatest venues, especially at New York's Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

Under the guidance of MidAmerica's founder, Peter Tiboris, the company has presented over 870 concerts worldwide and more than 740 in New York at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

More than 2500 American ensembles, representing each of the 50 states, have appeared with MidAmerica in New York, as have more than 100 symphonic and choral ensembles from Europe, the Far East, South America, and Canada. There have more than 300 guest conductors, 650 solo artists, and over 100,000 performers who have appeared on MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall.

In addition to presenting classic choral and instrumental works, MidAmerica Productions has championed the works of contemporary composers. On MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, there have been approximately 31 World Premieres, 16 United States Premieres, and 50 New York Premieres.

For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact Susan Case at 212-239-0205 or scase@midamerica-music.com

General admission tickets to Weill Recital Hall concerts are $35. Tickets may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, by going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. $15 tickets for students and seniors (with proper ID) are available at the Carnegie Box Office. Weill Recital Hall is located at 154 West 57th Street. For more information, call MidAmerica Productions at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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The Borok-Ponochevny Duo will be performing a concert on Sunday, March 11, entirely inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven, one of history's most important composers. The concert will showcase two of Beethoven's Sonatas, which will act as bookends to the performance. In addition, the Duo will perform American William Bolcom's Duo Fantasy, the U.S. premiere of Russian Lera Auerbach's Oskolki, and Estonian Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel.

Grammy-nominated violinist Emanuel Borok, concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 1985, has had a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader. Before coming to Dallas, Mr. Borok served for 11 seasons as associate concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and concertmaster of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Born and trained in the Soviet Union, Mr. Borok has made many solo appearances in Canada, France, Italy, Norway, Venezuela, Mexico, Switzerland, Holland and throughout the United States. His solo appearances have included the Saint-Saëns Concerto with the Boston Pops orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Bach Double Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin, Mozart's Symphony Concertante with Pinchas Zukerman and Brahms's Double Concerto with Janos Starker; chamber music with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, manuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Christopher Hogwood, Joshua Bell, Cho-Liang Lin, Ralph Kirshbaum and Paul Neubauer. He was also featured in the Distinguished Artists Recital Series at the 92nd Street Y.

Andrey Ponochevny, bronze-medal winner of the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, was honored as the featured pianist at the general assembly of the World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) in Washington, D.C. Mr. Ponochevny has won many top prizes, including first prize at the Tomassoni International Piano Competition in Cologne, and first prize at the William Kapell International Piano Competition in Maryland. Since then, he has toured extensively in the United States. He has been the featured soloist at Alice Tully Hall in New York's Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago. As an orchestral soloist, Mr. Ponochevny has appeared with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony, Rogue Valley Symphony, the Illinois Symphony, and the Nashua Symphony, among others.

Since 1989, MidAmerica Productions has produced over 265 chamber concerts in Weill Recital Hall, presenting some of the most exciting chamber musicians working today. For more information about this concert or MidAmerica Productions contact Susan Case at 212-239-0205 or visit www.midamerica-music.com.

Tickets, at $94, 57, 38, may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in NYC. For more information, call our Box Office at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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David Thye, conductor-in-residence at MidAmerica Productions, will conduct Mozart's magnificent Mass in C Major, K. 317, known as the "Coronation Mass." Mr. Thye has over 30 years of musical leadership experience, having conducted numerous high school, collegiate and professional choruses in such venues as Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City; Bass Performance Hall in Ft. Worth, TX; in Los Angeles with the Young Americans' National Invitational Choral Festival and many others. He was recently appointed to the Robert L. Burton chair of graduate conducting at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary as well as chorus master of the Ft. Worth Symphony Orchestra.

Douglas M. Jordan is the chair of the music department at Palmer Trinity School in Miami, Florida, where he conducts three concert performing ensembles in addition to his teaching and administrative duties. Mr. Jordan has taught public and private school instrumental music in Pennsylvania and Florida and has served as drill designer for marching bands in California, Florida and Pennsylvania. While at the University of Miami, he worked extensively with the marching band, and designed two shows for nationally televised championship bowl games. His bands have received recognition at the local, state and national level, including performances in Carnegie Hall during April 2001, in Austria during April 2003, and in Scotland and England during March 2005.

Randy Jordan is in his third year as director of the Arlington Master Chorale. His previous appointments have been as head choral director at Azle High School for seven years, and for 23 years as head choral director for Martin High School in Arlington, TX, where he also served as chair of the fine arts department. In addition, he has served as choral director at Azle Christian Church, St. Matthew United Methodist Church, and St. Barnabas United Methodist Church.

Soprano Christina Suh Girvin made her operatic debut with Opera Pacific, Costa Mesa, CA, as a resident artist. Ms. Suh Girvin was a finalist in the Palm Springs Opera and National Opera Association competitions, and was the Western Region winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, as well as a national finalist. Operatic performances have been with USC Opera, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Stockton Opera and Rutgers Opera. Ms. Suh Girvin is a member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus for the 2006-7 season.

Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Spesak's operatic credits include engagements with the Opera Orchestra of New York, New Jersey State Opera, New York Opera Forum, Metropolitan Lyric Theatre, MORE Opera, Teatro Felice and Family Opera. In addition, she has appeared as a soloist in sacred works in the U.S. and Italy. She studied music at Seton Hall University and The Juilliard School of Music. She was a fellow in the Opera Music Theatre International (OMTI) program founded by Jerome Hines, and a member of the Ars Musica Antiqua early music ensemble.

Tenor Brian Cheney is becoming increasingly known for his interpretation of such roles as Rodolfo in La bohème, the Duke in Rigoletto, Alfredo in La Traviata, Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore and Prince Karl Franz in The Student Prince. He has also embraced 20th Century and American operas such as Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Janacek's Jenufa, and has created roles in world-premiere productions such as Gershon Kingley's powerful opera Raoul. Mr. Cheney's oratorio and concert experience includes critically acclaimed performances in New York City, Providence, and Philadelphia.

Baritone Timothy LeFebvre recently returned from San Francisco Opera, where he was involved with productions of Dead Man Walking, Die Meistersinger and Tosca. LeFebvre's operatic experience includes leading roles with Chattanooga Symphony and Opera; Opera Theater of Pittsburgh; and Sarasota, Indianapolis, Tri-Cities, Central Florida Lyric, and Ithaca Operas. He has also appeared in concert with American Symphony Orchestra; Minnesota, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Spokane, Williamsport, and Binghamton Symphonies; Syracuse Chamber Music Society; the Skaneateles Festival; and with the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival. Mr. LeFebvre is a winner of the New York Liederkranz vocal competition and a regional finalist in several Metropolitan Opera competitions.

Over the past 23 years, MidAmerica Productions has brought together conductors, choruses, soloists, and orchestral musicians for performances at some of the world's greatest venues, especially at New York's Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

Under the guidance of MidAmerica's founder, Peter Tiboris, the company has presented over 870 concerts worldwide and more than 740 in New York at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

More than 2500 American ensembles, representing each of the 50 states, have appeared with MidAmerica in New York, as have more than 100 symphonic and choral ensembles from Europe, the Far East, South America, and Canada. There have more than 300 guest conductors, 650 solo artists, and over 100,000 performers who have appeared on MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall.

In addition to presenting classic choral and instrumental works, MidAmerica Productions has championed the works of contemporary composers. On MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, there have been approximately 31 World Premieres, 16 United States Premieres, and 50 New York Premieres.

For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact Susan Case at 212-239-0205 or scase@midamerica-music.com

General admission tickets to Weill Recital Hall concerts are $35. Tickets may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, by going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. $15 tickets for students and seniors (with proper ID) are available at the Carnegie Box Office. Weill Recital Hall is located at 154 West 57th Street. For more information, call MidAmerica Productions at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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Danielle Talamantes, soprano, will be performing her New York debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, March 4, 2007 at 8:30p.m. Talamantes is the winner of the 2006 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Artist Award Competition. This debut concert at Weill Recital Hall is part of Ms. Talamantes's award for winning the prestigious NATS competition. Accompanying her will be pianist Joy Puckett Schreier.

Ms. Talamantes's opera history includes performances with Spoleto Festival USA, Wolf Trap Opera and Opera Roanoke, Opera Bel Cantanti and The Washington Savoyards. Recent debuts also include solo features with Nevada Opera, Annapolis Opera and the Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia. Opera roles include Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Corilla in Donizetti's Le convenienze de teatrali, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte. She looks forward to returning to Nevada Opera next winter as Gretel in Hansel und Gretel.

Oratorio credits include performances with various DC Metropolitan and Virginia groups including The National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale, the Oratorio Society of Charlottesville, Friday Morning Music Club Chorale, the Capitol Hill Chorale, Washington Summer Sings, Prince William Symphony Orchestra and the New River Valley Symphony. She will debut as featured soloist with the New Dominion Chorale this spring in Schumann's Paradies und die Peri.

Her recent 2006 First Place honors, in addition to winning first place in the NATS competition, include the International Lotte Lehman Cybersing Competition, the Vocal Arts Society Discovery Series Competition, the Longleaf Opera Competition and the Gretchen Hood Memorial Competition sponsored by the DC Music Federation. Ms. Talamantes maintains a voice studio in northern Virginia and holds degrees from Virginia Tech and Westminster Choir College.

Pianist Joy Puckett Schreier received her doctorate in Accompanying and Chamber Music in 2003 under Jean Barr at the Eastman School of Music. At Eastman, Ms. Schreier was the recipient of the Barbara Koenig Award for Excellence in Vocal Accompanying as well as a three-time prize winner in the Jessie Kneisel German Lieder Competition. Former teachers include Ann Schein, Laurence Morton and Douglas Guiles.

Ms. Schreier has served as official pianist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the Wolf Trap Young Artist Auditions. She has been presented in recital at the Kennedy Center, the Polish Embassy, the residence of the Egyptian Ambassador, Anderson House on Embassy Row and Strathmore Hall. With the Maryland Youth Symphony Orchestra she has performed in Taiwan, Great Britain, Italy, France and Spain.

Ms. Schreier has coached grand prize winners in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Lotte Lehmann Foundation CyberSing Art Song Performance Competition, and the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition. She currently serves as vocal coach for the Washington National Opera Education Division under the direction of Plácido Domingo.

Since 1989, MidAmerica Productions has produced over 270 chamber concerts in Weill Recital Hall, presenting some of the most exciting chamber musicians working today. For more information about this concert or MidAmerica Productions contact Susan Case at 212-239-0205 or visit www.midamerica-music.com.

General admission tickets to Weill Recital Hall concerts are $35. Tickets may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, by going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. $15 tickets for students and seniors (with proper ID) are available at the Carnegie Box Office. Weill Recital Hall is located at 154 West 57th Street. For more information, call MidAmerica Productions at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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The American Chamber Ensemble (ACE) will be performing at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 2:00p.m. The concert, themed "Pan-American Music Mix (And a Touch of Spain)," consists of music by Cuban composer Paquito D'Rivera, Argentinean composers Astor Piazzolla and Alberto Ginastera, Spanish-born Carlos Surinach, Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Virginia native Howard Boatwright.

The American Chamber Emsemble, co-directed by pianist Blanche Abram and clarinetist Naomi Drucker, is celebrating 41 seasons of continuous concerts. In residence at Hofstra University, ACE is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore music for clarinet and/or piano with strings, woodwinds, and/or voice.

ACE is dedicated to presenting the music of living American composers and has commissioned and presented world premieres by Elie Siegmeister, Meyer Kupferman, Vally Weigl, Max Lifchitz, David Hollister, Joalle Wallach, Albert Tepper, Marga Richter, Dana Richardson, Edward Smaldone, Jerry Rizzi, Katherine Hoover, Josef Alexander, and Herbert Deutsch.

The ensemble has performed music by American composers Morton Gould, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Judith Lang Zaimont, Vally Weigl, Philip Douglas Moore, Amy Beach, George Gershwin, Alan Hovhaness, Peter Schichele, Robert Starer, and other composers. ACE has recorded a number of these works for the Leonarda, Gasparo, Soundspells, Cala, Dionysus, 4Tay, and Elysium Recording labels.

Since 1989, MidAmerica Productions has produced over 270 chamber concerts in Weill Recital Hall, presenting some of the most exciting chamber musicians working today. For more information about this concert or MidAmerica Productions contact Susan Case at 212-239-0205 or visit www.midamerica-music.com.