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Allan Ware and the Ciompi String Quartet of Duke University.

In concerts in the US and in Europe Allan Ware and the Ciompi Quartet have performed the major works for clarinet from Mozart, Weber, Francaix, Brahms and Oswald Golijov to the delight of audiences and to critical acclaim. Allan joined the Ciompi for the first time in 1998 and since then they perform yearly tours. 

“It was music making of the very first class.” Bremer Kurier

“Carl Maria von Weber´s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings was one of those performances to stand up and shout about.”                              The Independent, Raleigh-Durham, NC

“It was quite a display--glorious music-making with no apparent effort!” Spectator, Raleigh, NC

Over the years Allan Ware and the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University have performed concert programs to the acclaim of US and European audiences and critics, and one concert of theirs was voted by local critics one of the Top Ten Concerts of the 1999 season in North Carolina. They will be joining forces again for a series of concerts in Europe in May 2001, offering various programs including the Quintets of Mozart and Brahms, and featuring, among other works of American composers, a new Quintet, “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind” by the Jewish-American composer Osvaldo Golijov.  (The complete repertoire for the Ciompi Quartet can be viewed at www.ciompi.org.) 

As an ensemble clarinet with string quartet enjoys a most privileged position in the chamber music world. Its large repertoire spans music from classical to modern. It is not by chance that this repertoire contains some of the greatest masterpieces ever written. Contemporary composers continue to be inspired by the huge palette of tonal and stylistic possibilities this ensemble offers. 

 

Programm suggestions

Ciompi Quartet of Duke University with Allan Ware, Clarinetist.

American Composers

a program with American works from Paul Schoenfeld,

Joanne Metcalf "Hopeful Monster"

Mark Kuss "Elegy"

Malcolm Peyton String Quartet

a clarinet quintet by an American composer, for example,

Oswaldo Golijov - “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind”

 

Traditional

a classical string quartet from Mozart or Beethoven, Dvorak,

with a classical clarinet quintets from Mozart, Brahms, Weber, or Françaix.

Jewish-American Music

"Five Pieces" for String Quartet, by Erwin Schulhoff, a GermanJewish composer and Holocaust victim. These the delightful dance movements evoke the Cabaret world of Berlin in the 1920s."Tales from Chelm" by Paul Schoenfield. A four movement work filled with folk and klezmer elements, inspired by four traditional stories about the inhabitants of Chelm, the quasimythical Polish city of fools."The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind", by Oswaldo Golijov, an Argentine born Jewish composer. This mesmerizing work for string quartet and klezmer clarinet evokes the distant, mystical world of the 18th century Caballist scholar named in the work's title.We also have a large number of American pieces for special concert programs, you can check www.ciompi.org under “Premieres and Commissions” for some of the newer ones.

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Allan Ware - Bismarckstr. 52 - D-49076 Osnabrück - Tel: 0541-34500112 - - email: ware.allan@gmail.com