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Date
February 18, 2021 7:00PM
Description
VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE
The stream of this virtual performance will take place at our Triumph Over Adversity Festival event page.
Please note that all times listed are Pacific Time.
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Demarre McGill, flute
Also featuring:
Michael Brown, piano
Orion Weiss, piano
Michael McHale, piano
Eric Owens, bass-baritone/narrator
VALERIE COLEMAN: Sonatine for Clarinet and Piano
WILLIAM GRANT STILL: Songs for Flute with Piano
VALERIE COLEMAN: Fanmi Imèn for Flute and Piano
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK: Three Smiles for Tracey for Solo Clarinet
VALERIE COLEMAN: Portraits of Langston
Principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic Anthony McGill and principal flute of the Seattle Symphony Demarre McGill join together as Artistic Directors for the Triumph Over Adversity Festival, a free, multi-day virtual series of concerts and educational and community outreach offerings advocating for social change on and beyond classical music’s stages. Spotlighting musicians as well as composers from marginalized communities, concerts will feature works by composers such as Gabriela Lena Frank, Tania León, Valerie Coleman, and David Baker, including works specifically commissioned for the McGill brothers.
Winner of the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize, clarinetist Anthony McGill is one of classical music’s most recognizable and brilliantly multifaceted figures. He serves as the principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic — that orchestra’s first African-American principal player — and maintains a dynamic international solo and chamber music career. Hailed for his “trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character” (The New York Times), as well as for his “exquisite combination of technical refinement and expressive radiance” (The Baltimore Sun), McGill also serves as an ardent advocate for helping music education reach underserved communities and for addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in classical music.
The elder of the two brothers, flutist Demarre McGill, has gained international recognition as a soloist, recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, he currently serves as the principal flute of the Seattle Symphony. At age 15, he appeared as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony and has since appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Grant Park, San Diego and Baltimore symphony orchestras. As an educator, Demarre is Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and has taught and presented master classes in South Africa, Korea, Japan, Quebec and throughout the United States.
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