Ensemble Radieuse

Sat. Jun 20 2015 at 7:00 pm

Christ Church United Methodist
1221 Quarrier Street, Charleston, WV
(corner of Quarrier and Morris Streets
in downtown Charleston)

Note: All seats are general admission. Kids come FREE with a paying adult.

Charleston Chamber Music Society will be adhearing to the policies of the CDC and Christ Church United Methodist. Currently, masks will be optional. We will announce any changes on the postcard before each concert.

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Ensemble Radieuse is a flexible chamber ensemble, sometimes appearing simply as flute/oboe duo and other times being joined by a pianist, a vocalist, or other friends. We are dedicated to making a broad range of classics accessible and enjoyable to a variety of audiences–concerts are inevitably enlivened by spirited commentary from the stage. ER performances include numerous commissioned works, as well as our arrangements of well-loved pieces from across the repertoire. Our works span from the Baroque to the present-day and from the familiar to the surprising; they are chosen with an eye (or ear) to melodiousness and rhythmic vitality.

Appearing most often with pianist Melanie Foster Taylor, Ensemble Radieuse performs regularly throughout the Southeast; they have played to great acclaim in England, Jordan, Panama, Michigan, Texas, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, as well as at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral and on Nashville Public Radio’s “Live in Studio C.” In 2006 they were prize winners in the National Flute Association’s international Chamber Music Competition. Ensemble Radieuse’s premiere CD, Inbox, was released in spring of 2003. A compendium of attractive new music for flute, oboe, and piano, Inbox contains several pieces commissioned by Ensemble Radieuse—Greg Wanamaker’s Triaria, and Tim Grundmann’s Junk Mail, both for flute, oboe, and piano, and Scott Robbins’ Sonata for flute and oboe.