Shinta Mani Hotel Siem Reap is proud to organise “Played in Cambodia” during our “Made in Cambodia Market initiative”

“PROUD, MADE & PLAYED IN CAMBODIA”

“PLAYED IN CAMBODIA – Khmer Classical Music” – a one-off event on July 6

Date 6th July 2013
time 20.00 hrs
Where Shinta Mani Hotel (indoor and aircon)
dresscode A strict dress code applies
tickets For sale at Beyond Unique Escapes
price 18.50 usd
proceeds all proceeds to Cambodia Living Arts and Khmer Young Composers

Dresscode
No slippers, No T-shirts, No Shorts,

We d appreciate closed shoes, respectful clothing and a show of respect for the worldclass musicians

Ladies
This your time to dress-up !

The New York New Music Ensemble will bring us this one-off event with very limited availability. All proceeds will go to Cambodia Living Arts and the Nimitta Composers Project.

Most of the music will be written by the Cambodia composer Mr Chinary Ung ensuring a future for Cambodian Composers

TICKETS
Tickets will be for sale at Beyond Unique Escapes Siem Reap

PROGRAMME

(Sam-Ang Sam)
Karuna, for quintet (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano)
(Chinary Ung)
Spiral XI, Mother and Child, for viola/voice

intermission

(Him Sophy)
Piano Trio
(Chinary Ung)
Child Song (quartet)

ARTISTS
Linda Quan, violin
Susan Ung, viola/voice
Christopher Finckel, cello
Jayn Rosenfeld, flute
Benjamin Fingland, clarinet
Stephen Gosling, piano

BIO
Born into a family of cellists, CHRIS FINCKEL began his studies with his father George Finckel and is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Mischa Schneider and Orlando Cole. A frequent guest artist with such renowned ensembles as the Tokyo String Quartet and the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, Mr. Finckel has appeared at the Casals, Santa Fe, Ravinia, Saratoga, Norfolk and Rockport Chamber Music festivals, and has recorded for the Nonesuch, New World, CRI, Bridge and Vanguard record labels. A dedicated performer of 20th-century music, Chris Finckel has been involved in New York City’s contemporary music scene for over 20 years. Through his affiliations with such organizations as The New York New Music Ensemble, Parnassus, The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and Speculum Musicae. He has participated in the premieres of the works of over 100 composers including pieces by Milton Babbitt, Jacob Druckman, Elliot Carter, Mario Davidovsky, Donald Martino, Steve Reich and Charles Wuorinen.

With performances capturing “spiritedness and humor” and “unflagging precision and energy” (NY Times) BENJAMIN FINGLAND interprets a diverse range of clarinet literature. A founding member of the acclaimed new music collective counter)induction, he plays with many of the leading contemporary performance ensembles on the East Coast – including ICE, the Network for New Music, Ensemble 21, and more. As a recitalist, he has traveled worldwide; he has also collaborated, recorded, and toured with a wide variety of artists – from Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble Intercontemporain to jazz legend Ornette Coleman and pop icon Sir Elton John. Mr. Fingland has held principal clarinet positions with the Prometheus Chamber orchestra and the New Haven Symphony. He is also the newest member of the Dorian Woodwind Quintet. He has Bachelor and Master of music degrees from the Juilliard School, and is on the faculty of the Third Street Music School Settlement in New York City.

Pianist STEPHEN GOSLING enjoys a varied career as soloist and chamber musician with a focus on contemporary music. He holds a doctorate from the Juilliard School, where he was awarded the Mennin Prize for Outstanding Excellence and Leadership in Music and the Sony Elevated Standards Fellowship. He is a member of The New York New Music Ensemble, American Modern Ensemble and Ne(x)tworks, and frequently performs with many other groups, including New York Philharmonic, Orpheus, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, American Composers Orchestra, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He has performed several times in the Lincoln Center and Mostly Mozart festivals, and has been profiled by the New York Times.

JAYN ROSENFELD is the flutist and executive director of The New York New Music Ensemble. She plays with the Richardson Chamber Players at Princeton University and the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society and is the first flutist of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Rosenfeld teaches at Princeton University, and at Greenwich House, where she gives a flute workshop for adult amateurs. Her many recordings include concerti by DomenicoCimarosa, DinosConstantinides, Rand Steiger and Leo Kraft, solo works by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Leon Kirchner, John Anthony Lennon, Robert Erickson and David Froom, more than sixty works of contemporary chamber music, and a recording of the flute chamber music of Albert Roussel (Centaur). A graduate of Radcliffe College and the Manhattan School of Music, MS. Rosenfeld studied with James Pappoutsakis, William Kincaid and Marcel Moyse. She was first flutist in the American Symphony Orchestra, conductor, Leopold Stokowski, and won a NEA Solo Recitalist Grant in 1986.

Violinist LINDA QUAN has had a diverse career concertizing and recording in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia as soloist, chamber musician and principal orchestral player. Her strong involvement in new music includes performing and recording with The New York New Music Ensemble, the Atlantic Quartet, and the ISCM Chamber Ensemble, as well as years of participation at the Composers Conference at both Johnson, VT and Wellesley, MA. Extremely active in the field of “original instrument” performance, Ms. Quan is a founding member of the Aulos Ensemble and Classical Quartet, as well as appearing regularly with The Handel and Haydn Society, The Smithsonian Chamber Players, The American Classical Orchestra, The Bach Ensemble, Aston Magna, Helicon Foundation, and The New York Collegium. She has appeared and toured with such groups as The Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, The Classical Band, The St. Luke’s Orchestra of New York, The New York Chamber Soloists, and The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and has appeared in numerous summer festivals. Besides her position on the faculty of Vassar College since 1980, Ms. Quan had led workshops in old and new music performance practices at universities and summer academies throughout America and in Bressanone, Italy. She has recorded on the Harmonia Mundi, Smithsonian, CRI, Musical Heritage Society, MusicMasters, Opus One, Decca (L’Oiseau-Lyre) labels, and most recently, on Centaur.