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“Pinotage
will charm you out of your socks” PINOTAGE is a unique quartet from Chicago made up of flute, harp, viola and voice. Formed in 1998, the group specializes in work written after 1900. Since their first performance PINOTAGE has worked closely with many composers, who have been inspired to write for this distinctive quartet. PINOTAGE hase performed works by Bernard Rands, Jan Bach, Marta Ptaszynska, Robert Lombardo, Lawrence Axelrod, Kathleen Ginther, Elizabeth Start, Karim Al-Zand, Juan Orrego-Salas, and Osvaldo Golijov, among many others. In 1999 they were Ensemble-in Residence at Columbia College in Chicago, offering master classes and performing works written for them by young composers. PINOTAGE has been featured premiering new works at new music festivals across the country including New Music Chicago’s Sonic Impact: Creating New Art & Music in a Global Culture 2006, the 25th Anniversary Festival at Bowling Green’s Mid America Center for New Music in 2004, the 2004 Festival of New American Music at California State University at Sacramento and the Outside the Box 2007 New Music Festival at SIU. They have been guest artists at Northwestern University, DePaul University, Northern Illinois University, and Roosevelt University. They have been webcast live from Wheaton College and broadcast live on WFMT as part of the Jewel Box Series at Northeastern University. PINOTAGE has recorded a number of works including a song cycle by New York composer Arnold Rosner for Albany Records, Lawrence Axlerod’s Five Hundred Nights, and original works written for the group by Elizabeth Start and Kathleen Ginther. In 2007 they were broadcast in Australia on the ABC performing works by Australian composers from the new CD on Jade Records. |
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