SHUT UP AND PLAY THE ZAPPA! 
January 22, 2012 8pm
20th Century Theater   
3021 Madison Road, Oakley

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Advance Tickets: $35 General/ $20 Students
Door tickets: $40 General/ $25 Students
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Frank Zappa is a man whose work is iconclastic, political, virtuosic, scatological, and brilliant.  An outspoken advocate for the rights of musicians and artists to express themselves free from government intervention, he often stretched and broke through the boundaries of good taste in his own work.  His career was one of a mix of popular music, 20th century art music, theater and humor,  independent and unique.  He was also an acute and careful observer and commentator of politics and humanity, and often cloaked his observations in scathing humor. 

His extraordinarily demanding music left him often unsatisfied with the efforts of live classical musicians, until near the end of his life, when collaborations with Kent Nagano, Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble Modern left us with a legacy of demanding, quirky and fascinating works for chamber ensembles. Our program includes much of this zany ensemble music of Zappa but will also showcase his two main classical influences, Igor Stravinsky and Edgar Varese.  Intensely compelled by both composers, one famous story unfolds:  During a period as a child, he listened non-stop to the music of Varese.  He couldn't figure out why his mother wanted him to move into another room to listen to this music.  "But mom, listen to the siren!"  

Program to include: G-Spot Tornado, Outrage at Valdez, The Perfect Stranger, Be-Bop Tango, Peaches En Regalia, and more! 

Seven Hills Sinfonietta


November 13, 2011, 3:00 p.m.

B’nai Tzedek, 6280 Kugler Mill Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236

William C. White,  guest conductor
Nancy Illman & Tatiana Berman, violins

• Mendelssohn, Fingal’s Cave, Op. 26
• J.S. Bach, Double Violin Concerto, BWV. 1043
• Beethoven, Symphony No. 8, Op. 93

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Constella presents:
Double Deal: String + Jazz Quartets
Featuring Ted Nash, saxophone

Saturday, October 29, 2011 | 8pm and 10pm
The Blue Wisp Jazz Club | Cincinnati, OH
This world premiere event at Cincinnati’s renowned Blue Wisp Jazz Club features Grammy-nominated jazz composer and arranger Ted Nash in collaboration with Cincinnati jazz and classical musicians. A world premiere composition for string and jazz double quartets will be performed, commissioned to commemorate Constella’s inaugural season. In order to best accommodate our patrons, there will be two seatings – 8pm and 10pm.

Jazz Quartet MusiciansRusty Burge, vibraphone
Dan Karlsberg, piano
Jim Leslie, drums
Michael Sharfe, acoustic bass

String Quartet Musicians

Tatiana Berman, violin

Suzanna Barnes, violin

Yael Senamaud-Cohen, viola

Susan Marshall-Petersen, cello

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Ted Nash has an important association with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. A recent commission by the JLCO, “Portrait in Seven Shades,” was recorded by the Orchestra and released in February 2010. This recording marks the first-ever JLCO release devoted to original music by a band member other than Wyton Marsalis, and has been credited by Ted Panken in Downbeat Magazine as marking a new direction for the Orchestra. Nash has been cited as “rising star” on saxophone for several years in the Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and his CDs have often appeared in top ten CD lists by New York Times, Village Voice, Boston Globe, The New Yorker and Jazz Times Magazine. For more information about Nash, please visit http://www.tednash.com/.

Tickets for this concert will be sold exclusively through the Constella Festival.

Tickets: $15 (General Admission) and $10 (Student Rush 1 Hour Prior with Valid ID)

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Classical Revolution:Cincinnati - Constella Festival Edition
Where: Back Room of the Northside Tavern. 

When: Sunday October 23, 2011 @ 8pm

4163 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45223

Classical Revolution is proud and excited to perform this special event in conjunction with the Constella Festival! Featuring: The Elysium Saxophone Quartet, The Ohio River Brass Quintet, the Revolution Quintet, Tatiana Berman and more!

Constella presents:
Piazzolla, Prokofiev and Pointe Shoes

Saturday, October 15, 2011 | 6:00pm
Mickey Jarson Kaplan Performance Studio @ Cincinnati Ballet Center| Cincinnati, OH

Chamber music meets the ballet for Piazzolla, Prokofiev and Pointe Shoes. In this program Constella Festival presents two new world premiere works by a creative team of choreographers: Heather Britt, James Cunningham, Andrew Hubbard, Stephen Jacobsen and Missy Lay Zimmer (photos above). Featuring dancers from the Cincinnati Ballet and Exhale Dance Tribe and concert:nova musicians together on stage, the program will include a new choreography set to the music of Sergei Prokofiev’s Quintet, Op. 39. A beautiful duet of dancers will perform to Richard Rodgers’ and Lorenz Hart’s “My Funny Valentine.” The program will conclude with another new choreography set to the music of “Histoire du Tango” by Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla, which outlines the history of tango in four musical movements from different time periods. Musicians include Boris Astafiev (double bass), Tatiana Berman (violin), Richard Goering (guitar), Jonathan Gunn (clarinet), Timothy Lees (violin), Dwight Parry (oboe) and  Joanne Wojtowicz (viola).

concert:nova is an exploratory chamber ensemble that performs traditional and contemporary classical music, presenting world class chamber music in diverse and unusual venues using interdisciplinary collaboration to illuminate the music. Partnerships with dancers, actors and visual artists bring a unique dimension to performances, illustrating each musical work in a modern and powerful way.

For more information about concert:nova, please visit http://concertnova.com/.
For more information about the Cincinnati Ballet, please visit http://www.cballet.org/.

Tickets: $30 (General Admission) and $10 (Student Rush 1 Hour Prior with Valid ID)

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Friday, October 14, 2011 | 6:30pm Fifth Third Bank Theater @ The Aronoff Center for the Arts | Cincinnati, OH

Taking place at the intimate black box Fifth Third Bank Theater at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Queen City Connections will feature a candlelit chamber music performance by New York Philharmonic principal oboist Liang Wang and several of Cincinnati’s finest musicians including Tatiana Berman, Nathaniel Chaitkin, Jasmine Choi, Dwight Parry, Anna Reider, Yael Senamaud-Cohen and Matthew Zory.

Wang may be familiar to local audiences as he was previously principal oboist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 2005-2006. The program will feature selections from Albinoni, Beach, Mozart and Arnold. A post-concert reception will be held immediately following the show at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery. Additional information about Liang Wang can be found at www.liangoboe.com.

Tickets for this concert will be sold exclusively through the Constella Festival.

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Express Cincinnati, October 2011

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