Washington Square Players in rehearsalWashington Square Players to present a Koussevitzky Commission and many other new works.
The Washington Square Contemporary Music Society is gearing up for its Friday, Dec. 16 opening event, with Louis
Karchin conducting two works of composers David McMullin and John
Aylward, the latter a Koussevitzky commission.
Please join us at 8 PM at
the Tenri Institute for a program of music by Don Freund (who will be
visiting from Indiana), Canadian composer Dorothy Chang, Leo Kraft, Italian
composer Letizia Michielon, as well as Aylward and McMullin, performed by
our outstanding Washington Square players.
Louis Karchin's ACA Composer page
Hailed for its "lively, polished performance" (the New York Times), and
acclaimed as "among the world's most outstanding new music ensembles"
(Fanfare), The Washington Square Ensemble is comprised of some of New
York's finest musicians. The core members of the ensemble are flutists
Jayn Rosenfeld and Patricia Spencer; oboist Jackie Leclair; clarinetist
Alan Kay and Jean Kopperud; percussionists Tom Kolor, Matthew Gold, and
Stephen Paysen; pianist Stephen Gosling; violinist Curtis Macomber;
violist Lois Martin; cellist Christopher Finckel; bassist Kurt Murocki;
and conductors Louis Karchin and Paul Hostetter. The ensemble maintains a
flexibility of instrumentation that sets it apart from other
contemporary music groups in New York.