Quintet to come to BYU-I
- posted: 02 Oct. 2007
- scrollarts@byui.edu
Photo Courtesy of University Relations
For students who are hungry to hear a variety of instruments, their palate will soon be satisfied at the performance of The Quintet of the Americas.
The quintet will perform with the flute, obo, clarinet, bassoon and the horn, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Barrus Concert Hall.
Quintet of the Americas is “a leading interpreter of folk and contemporary wind quintet music, from South American tangos, choros and habaneras, to original works using Native American instruments” according to www.byui.edu/centerstage.
“We play a lot of foreign and folk. There is a lot of variety” said Barbara Oldham, the hornist and founding member of the group. “I thought it would be nice to play chamber music as well as orchestra”.
Along with Oldham, the other performers are flutist Sato Moughalian, oboist Matt Sullivan, clarinetist Edward Gilmore and bassoonist Laura Koepe.
The group has performed all over the world, but Oldham said much of the music audience members will hear during Wednesday’s performance was inspired by Latin American countries.
The Quintet of the Americas has won numerous awards for its performances. It was the first group to receive the NEA/CMA Special Commissioning Award, an award given for new chamber works by American composers.
“This Woodwind quintet began in 1976. The members now have been in there some ten years or more” Oldham said.
This will be the group’s first time visiting Rexburg, and the group members will be able to visit their previous member, Bill Holman, who is now a music professor here at BYU-Idaho.
“Barbara and I are old friends. I look forward to seeing the rest of the quintet,” Holman said. “I’ve been here seven years, and I’ve never seen a quintet perform [on campus].” 
