Antara Ensemble in Bach, Bizet, Grieg, Jacob & Kioulaphides Tues., Feb. 11, 2014, 8 PM, St. Peter’s Church at Citicorp, 619 Lexington Ave. at 54th Street, NYC

Lil' Lite O' Mine; Harold Jones, flute

William Foster McDaniel

On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 8:00 PM, at Saint Peter’s Church at CitiCorp, 54^th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York City, conductor/flutist Harold Jones leads the Antara Ensemble in a program to include J. S. Bach’s Ich Habe Genug (with baritone Thomas Buckner), Georges Bizet’s Adagietto, Edward Grieg’s Holberg Suite, Op. 40, Gordan Jacob’s Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra (with Harold Jones as flute soloist and William Foster McDaniel as guest conductor), and the world premiere of Victor Kioulaphides’ Summer Concerto for North – South Consonance, with violinist Mioi Takeda as soloist.

  

          Tickets are $25; seniors (62 and over) and students $20.  For information and reservations: (212) 866-2545 or www.antaraensemble.com.

                 The ANTARA ENSEMBLE, now in its 20th season, was formed by Harold Jones to bring quality classical music at affordable prices to the culturally diverse neighborhoods of New York.  The group performs a repertoire spanning centuries and including works by American, African-American, European and Third World composers.

              A native of Chicago and a graduate of Juilliard, HAROLD JONES has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Tully Hall, CAMI Hall and other New York venues, Jordan Hall in Boston, and throughout the U.S., Europe and Taiwan.  He has performed as flute soloist with The Bach Aria Orchestra, American Symphony, New York Sinfonietta, Brooklyn Philharmonia, National Orchestral Association, and is on the faculties of the Westchester Conservatory of Music and Manhattanville College.  His recordings on the Antara label include two LPs and three CDs.

            Composer VICTOR KIOULAPHIDES was born in Athens, Greece in 1961.  He studied double bass at the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School, and composition  with Giampaolo Bracali and Ludmila Ulehla.  He has written seven operas, songs in English, German and Greek; chamber music, works for organ and/or choir, madrigals, works for the guitar, children’s pieces, piano works, symphonic music, a concerto and plays with music.  Kioulalphides has been on the Composition Theory faculty at the Brooklyn Conservatory since 1994 and at the Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance since 1996.  He has received one of ASCAP’s Special Awards every year since 1993.  Summer Concerto is a lyrical, nearly operatic work, evoking the string sonorities of Samuel Barber and the musical staging of Nino Rota.

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