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Chameleon Arts Ensemble announces 2008-2009 chamber music season

August 1, 2008 - Boston, MA - The Chameleon Arts Ensemble begins its second decade of chamber music concerts in Boston with the 2008-2009 season. All of the performances take place at the Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street in the Back Bay, one of the most beautiful and intimate music rooms in the city. The series opens on Saturday and Sunday October 4th and 5th, and continues with concerts on Saturday November 8th, Saturday and Sunday February 14th and 15th, Saturday March 28th, and Saturday and Sunday May 16th and 17th. Saturday concerts begin at 8 PM and Sunday concerts at 3 PM.

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Chameleon Arts Ensemble presents between opus 10

April 18, 2008 - Boston, MA - The Chameleon Arts Ensemble will proudly celebrate the close of its Tenth Anniversary season on Saturday, May 17th at the Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street in the Back Bay. The program, entitled opus 10, is a joyous, lighthearted take on the number Ten: Ernst von Dohnányi's Serenade in C Major for string trio, Op. 10, Carl Nielsen's Wind Quintet FS 100, selections from Richard Strauss' Acht Gedichte for soprano & piano, Op.10, Robert Schumann's Piano Trio in g minor, Op. 110, and the Boston Premiere of Kevin Puts' Ritual Protocol for marimba & piano, composed ten years ago in 1998.

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Chameleon Arts Ensemble presents between eternity and time

February 15, 2008 - Boston, MA - The Chameleon Arts Ensemble will present its fourth concert of the 2007-2008 season, entitled between eternity and time, on Saturday, March 15, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street in the Back Bay. The program is built on a theme that Artistic Director Deborah Boldin has been working on for several years. "I'm fascinated by firsts and lasts," she says. "There is a special place in the repertoire for the last works of master composers. I am particularly interested in contrasting those with early works, juxtaposing youthfulness with the mature voices representing lifetimes of experience, and the glimpses this gives us into the passage of time."

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Chameleon Arts Ensemble presents twin notes inseparably paired

January 4, 2008 - Boston, MA - The Chameleon Arts Ensemble will present its first concert of 2008 on Saturday, February 2, at the Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street in the Back Bay. The program of duos - the most intimate, most fundamental form of chamber music - is entitled twin notes inseparably paired, and includes: Brahms' e minor Cello Sonata, Virgil Thomson's Five Phrases from the Song of Solomon (1924) for soprano and percussion, Lowell Liebermann's Sonata for flute & harp, Op. 56, Prokofiev's f minor Violin Sonata, and Tigran Mansurian's Duo for viola & percussion.

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Chameleon Arts Ensemble presents forever sounding across centuries

October 10, 2007 - Boston, MA - The second concert of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble's Tenth Anniversary Season will be on Saturday November 10th, 2007, 8PM at the Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street in the Back Bay. The concert is entitled forever sounding across centuries, and includes the Boston Premiere of Derek Bermel's Wanderings for woodwind quintet, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major, and the Piano Quintet of 1927 by American composer Leo Ornstein. Pianist Katherine Chi will be joining the Chameleons as a special guest.io.

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Chameleon Opens 10th Anniversary Season with "strands of a trio twining"

August 29, 2007 - Boston, MA - The Chameleon Arts Ensemble opens its 10th Anniversary Season of chamber music concerts on Saturday September 29th, 2007, 8PM at the Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street in the Back Bay. The concert is a colorful evening of trios entitled strands of a trio twining, a re-imagining of the very first Chameleon concert held in October 1998. "When I selected the repertoire for the first concert ten years ago," says Artistic Director Boldin, "I only realized when I was finished that it was all trios. This time, of course, it was deliberate." The program includes Beethoven's Trio in G Major for flute, bassoon & piano, Ingolf Dahl's Concerto a Tre for clarinet, violin & cello, Krzysztof Penderecki's String Trio, Brahms' Piano Trio No. 3 in c minor, Op. 101, and the Boston Premiere of Daron Hagen's Harp Trio.

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Chameleon Arts Ensemble Announces 10th Anniversary Season

August 3, 2007- Boston, MA - 2007-2008 marks The Chameleon Arts Ensemble's Tenth Anniversary Season of chamber music concerts. All of the concerts take place at the Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street in the Back Bay, one of the most beautiful and intimate music rooms in the city. The series opens on Saturday September 29th, and continues with concerts on Saturday November 10th, Saturday February 2nd, Saturday March 15th, and Saturday May 17th. All concerts are at 8 PM.

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Chameleon wins CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming

January 22, 2007 - The Chameleon Arts Ensemble has been honored with a 2007 CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming in the Chamber Ensembles - Mixed Repertory category. Chameleon's Artistic Director Deborah Boldin received the award on Saturday, January 13 at the annual Chamber Music America conference in New York. "I'm thrilled that our programming philosophy and achievements are being recognized at the national level," says Boldin. "I think that it's also a great tribute to our audience, which is always so supportive and intensely interested in the new music we present."

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