Musical Performance
Wind Quintet with Members of the NJSO
- Item Number
- 304
- Estimated Value
- 1995 USD
- Opening Bid
- 1295 USD
Item Description
A 75 minute concert at your location featuring Kathleen Nester, flute, Robert Ingliss, oboe, Andrew Lamy, clarinet, Chris Komer, horn, and Robert Wagner, bassoon. Date and time to be mutually agreed to by winner and musicians.
The Program includes a gem of by Franz Danzi, a Beethoven contemporary; a rarely heard Mozart work originally written for mechanical organ, as well as Carl Nielsen’s masterpiece of the quintet repertoire. In addition your choice of a Wind Quintet by Hungarian Endre Szervánszky, or by Americans Stephen Wisner or Anne Drummond may be added to the performance.
KATHLEEN NESTER is second flute and solo piccolo for the NJSO. She is also a member of the Stamford Symphony Orchestra (CT) and Principal Flute of Amici New York and the OK Mozart Festival. Nester has performed as extra with other area ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York City Opera and Hudson Valley Philharmonic. She has been featured as concerto soloist on both flute and piccolo with the NJSO, toured Japan as soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble on both instruments and played concertos on alto recorder with Philharmonia Virtuosi and the Centre Symphony. In 2010, she was featured on alto flute in a “Live from Lincoln Center” broadcast with violinist Joshua Bell.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Principal Oboe ROBERT INGLISS (The Arthur E. Walters and Marjory S. Walters Chair) is also principal oboe of the Santa Fe Opera and oboe soloist with the Orquesta de Cámara de Valdivia of the Universidad Austral de Chile. He has toured worldwide with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with whom he also has appeared as soloist, and has performed with An die Musik, the Cygnus Ensemble and the Manhattan Sinfonietta.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Second and E-Flat Clarinetist ANDREW LAMY has been a member of the NJSO since 1993. He is also a member of the critically acclaimed Halcyon Trio. Lamy began his solo career in 1990 with a memorable performance of the Copland Concerto with the Debut Orchestra at Royce Hall in Los Angeles. Wrote The Los Angeles Times, “Andrew’s rock solid technique in the Copland Concerto allowed one to forget his mechanics and focus on the balletic gracefulness of his phrasing, the give and take with which he moved his music through the orchestral texture.”
A native of Kansas, NJSO French horn CHRIS KOMER began his studies at Wichita State University with Nick Smith. He later studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Rick Solis and at the Manhattan School of Music with David Jolly. A New York City resident, Komer is at home playing all types of music in all types of settings, and he has become one of New York City’s most sought after freelance hornists. From the concert hall (in addition to the NJSO, he has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony and Houston Symphony) to the jazz club (he has performed with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Principal Bassoonist ROBERT WAGNER has been a member of the Orchestra since 1979. He has performed as a soloist with the NJSO in bassoon concertos by Mozart, Weber and Vivaldi, as well as the Duo Concertino of Richard Strauss. He has toured extensively and recorded with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and he has performed as a member of the Boehm Quintette and American Wind Quintet. Wagner graduated with both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School. He teaches at Princeton University and serves on the boards of the League of American Orchestras and ArtPride New Jersey.
Item Special Note
Please note:
Performance must take place by April 16, 2017. Date to be mutually agreed upon. Must be within a one-hour drive of Newark, NJ. Please be sure to provide five armless, hardback chairs for the performers as well as adequate lighting.
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