The Music Program of the Department of Performing and Creative Arts presents The OMNI Ensemble, which is continuing its 32nd season of concerts and ninth at the College of Staten Island, on Thursday, Feb. 26 in the Center for the Arts (Building 1P) Recital Hall at 2:30pm. Admission to this CC-CLUE event is free.
Music Director/Flutist David Wechsler, cellist Brian Snow, and pianist John Cheek will be joined by guest artist soprano Charlotte Dobbs for performances of voice, flute, cello, and piano. The repertoire will include Chansons Madécasses by Maurice Ravel; Cues in Search of a Movie for flute, cello, and piano by David Wechsler; Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor by Dmitri Shostakovich; and Good Night for soprano, alto flute, three tam tams, and piano by Henryk Mikolaj Górecki.
As the chamber music group in residence at the Brooklyn Conservatory, The OMNI Ensemble continues to perform concerts of enormous variety, all designed to provide their audience with a musical diversity not ordinarily encountered by one chamber music group. Throughout the season, they perform in the Recital Hall at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.