QNG’s New Year – Newsletter
Dear friends of QNG,
this has been a very exciting year and therefore we would like to use this occasion for a little review of what was going on and what is about to happen.
New Agent:
First of all we are very happy about the collaboration with our new agent PeterRobles from Serious Music Media in New York. At this point it is time to thank our agencies Concert Artists Guild in New York and Erika Esslinger Konzertagentur in Stuttgart for their terrific support in the past.
We are also very thankful for a wonderful cooperation with the recorder factories KÜNG in Schaffhausen and Mollenhauer in Fulda, especially their great minds behind superb inventions and solutions for any kind of problems, Geri Bollinger and Erik Jahn.
Furthermore we would like to thank our recorder colleagues Eva Gemeinhardt, Miako Klein and Petra Wurz for their fantastic commitment in our concerts. 2011 would not have been possible without you – thank you very much!
Tours:
Our concerts and trips took us around the globe, e.g. the U.S., Aserbaidschan, Armenia, Georgia, Czech Republic and of course through Germany. Next to travelling and teaching we put all our energy into our new CD project, which was recorded in Nurenberg together with the Bayerische Rundfunk and will be released in summer 2012 by the German label GENUIN. This record was inspired by strict composition forms as well as the composers' fantasy to fill or break these given frame works. The arrangement of „Parterre“ by the American composer Mary Ellen Childs, which we premiered at the Southern Theatre in Minneapolis in April 2011, is featured on this album as well.
Upcoming dates:
2012 is going to be a very intriguing year especially when it comes to premieres and collaborations. Among others there will be new pieces written by Alexandra Filonenko, Sofia Gubaidulina, Yotam Haber, Mauro Montalbetti, Paul Moravec, Johannes Motschmann, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri and Qin Yi.
The year will start out with two concerts at the renowned ULTRASCHALL festival in Berlin at 24th of January. In April we will introduce the festive program „Blaze of Glory“ to our U.S. audience together with the unique CALMUS Ensemble from Leipzig. Furthermore we will premiere a new work written by the American composer Yotam Haber together with the amazing JACK Quartet at the MATA festival in New York.
We would like to thank you all for your support and loyalty and are looking forward to see you at one of our concerts soon. For more news please check out our website, youtube and facebook.
We wish you a blessed, healthy and happy New Year!
All the best
QNG
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