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A Meadow Calls by Garth Baxter dedicated to Carlos Boltes

Crescendo is a national-award-winning music performance organization. For more than fourteen years, Crescendo has presented concerts year-round in northwestern Connecticut, the Berkshires, and the mid-Hudson Valley of New York. The organization is based at Trinity Church Lime Rock in Lakeville, CT.
    Founder and Artistic Director, Christine Gevert, is celebrated for her innovative approach to programming and performance. Crescendo’s audiences are often rewarded with programs of rarely-heard and newly discovered works. Often Ms. Gevert uses original manuscripts to make her own performing editions for chorus, soloists and orchestra because there are no existing published editions. Frequently our programs feature early and contemporary music works alongside each other, creating a contrast for the listener. Eight new works have been commissioned for our chorus and vocal ensemble. Crescendo has presented ten U.S. premieres.
    Crescendo’s innovative programming relies on a local base of dedicated and talented auditioned amateurs and professionals who make up the Crescendo Chorus and Crescendo Vocal Ensemble. Crescendo has its own Period Instrument Orchestra and Andean Ensemble, comprised of professionals from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Hartford. These instrumentalists and the internationally recognized soloists who regularly collaborate with Crescendo bring the performances to a level comparable to the best ensembles in the country. Instrumental music ensembles and concerts with vocal soloists have been part of Crescendo’s programs since the beginning. Some of the performers have been: Peter Sykes (Boston) and Władysław Kłosiewicz (Warsaw, Poland), harpsichord, Christopher Bellsucio (Boston), natural trumpet, Tricia van Oers, recorder, I Fagiolini Renaissance Vocal Ensemble (London, UK), L’Orchestre de Chambre Francaise (Paris, France), Julianne Baird (Philadelphia) soprano, Nicholas Tamagna (New York) countertenor, Peter Lekx (Montreal) baroque violin, Duo Alturas (Hartford) charango, viola and guitar, and Duo Les Inégales, traverso and harpsichord.
    We are strongly committed to educational outreach―to our own singers, our audiences and local students. Talented local high school singers are coached by Ms. Gevert and often play a part in our performances. She and members of the chorus visit local schools to work with students.
    Artistic Director Christine Gevert is celebrated for her innovative approach to programming and performance: In 2014 Crescendo won the prestigious Chorus America / ASCAP Alice Parker Award. Today’s programming reflects some of the diversity and scope of music that Crescendo is known for.

Mr. Boltes was born in Santiago de Chile, where he began his musical studies learning charango from his brother, Giovanni Vaccani. Later, he joined the Chilean group, Barrocco Andino with which he made numerous recordings as well as touring widely throughout Chile and South America. He has a performance degree from the Catholic University of Chile and a Master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University in viola interpretation. His main teachers have been: Enrique López, Atar Arad and Larry Dutton (Emerson String Quartet). He has been principal violist of the Santiago Municipal Chamber Orchestra and the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. He has recorded for Naxos, Brioso and CBS Records. In the year 2000, he formed the Duo Alturas together with Canadian guitarist, Scott Hill. In the intervening years the Duo has premiered more than 50 new works and has performed in Canada, the US, Central and South America and Europe. He has performed extensively with Andean wind specialist, Gonzalo Cortes as well as with the remarkable French pianist and singer, Alexandra Aubert, with whom he has toured Chile and the United States. Mr. Boltes has been awarded the Individual Scholarship of Artists of the Boston Fund and an Achievement Scholarship from the Andes Foundation and also received the "Latino de Oro" award from Connecticut 2010, currently Mr. Boltes is a professor at The New Old Music School in West Hartford, CT.

A Meadow Calls by Garth Baxter dedicated to Carlos Boltes

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