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Contact: Gabriel Langfur
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Chameleon Arts Ensemble wins 2009 CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous
Programming
December 16, 2008 - Boston, MA - For the second time
in three years, the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston is being
honored with a CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming
in the Chamber Ensembles - Mixed Repertory category. Artistic
Director Deborah Boldin will accept the award on Saturday,
January 17, 2009 at the annual Chamber Music America national
conference in New York City.
The award specifically recognizes Chameleon's 2007-2008 season
programs, which marked the Ensemble's 10th anniversary and
featured contemporary music by Daron Hagen, Krzysztof Penderecki,
Derek Bermel, Tigran Mansurian, Lowell Liebermann, Marc Andre
Dalbavie, and Kevin Puts, among others, in combination with
works from the standard chamber music repertoire. "It
is a great honor for Chameleon to win this award a second
time, particularly in recognition of our tenth anniversary
season," says Boldin. "This is not only an acknowledgment
of our achievement and programming philosophy, but is also
a tribute to our fearless and curious audiences, who trust
our choices and share our belief that concerts of both old
and new music, presented in a thoughtful balance, make for
truly rich listening experiences."
Presented jointly by Chamber Music America (CMA) and the
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP),
the annual awards recognize ensembles, presenters and festivals
that have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to 20th- and
21st-century music, especially works written in the past 25
years. The independent panel of judges also considers originality
and innovative presentation as well as audience-development
strategies.
CMA is the national service organization for the ensemble
music profession, was founded in 1977 to promote artistic
excellence and the economic stability of the field, and to
ensure that chamber music, in its broadest sense, is a vital
part of American life. ASCAP is a membership organization
of over 250,000 composers, songwriters, and publishers of
every music genre and is the only U.S. performing rights organization
created and governed by its members.
About the Chameleon Arts Ensemble
Now entering its second decade of programming, the Chameleon
Arts Ensemble has distinguished itself as one of the finest,
most versatile professional chamber ensembles in Boston. Over
the past ten years, Chameleon has produced more than 60 concerts,
with 218 different works by 126 different composers. The Ensemble
now performs to capacity audiences and receives critical acclaim
for its innovative concert programming and artistic philosophy:
dynamic musical dialogues, integrating old and new repertoire
into unexpected chamber music programs that are themselves
works of art. The Boston Globe praised Artistic Director Deborah
Boldin's "discerning ears and cosmopolitan tastes"
and hailed: "Planning a good chamber music program is
a delicate art unto itself, and few in town have mastered
it as persuasively as the Chameleon Arts Ensemble." Concert
recordings are regularly broadcast on WGBH Radio, and the
Ensemble is receiving national attention, with 2007 and 2009
CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming, and a 2003 Koussevitsky
commission. In addition, Chameleon serves as ensemble-in-residence
for Northeastern University's summer Fusion Arts Exchange,
an educational program for international students sponsored
by the US State Department.
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