Performance: Gregory Oakes
| Date/Time: | Friday, 04 Dec 2009 from 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm |
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| Location: | Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Building |
| Cost: | Free |
| Phone: | 515-294-3831 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Arts, performances |
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Oakes has performed with the Ensemble Intercontemporian with Pierre Boulez (Carnegie Hall), the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Ballet, Central City Opera, Colorado Music Festival and the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Oakes has performed with the woodwind quintets Category 5 and the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet, and with the award-winning Ensemble Syzygy clarinet quartet.
He is a founding member of Non Sequitur, which has been in residence at Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth, and the Aspen Music Festival. He has performed as concerto soloist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and the Denver Brass, with Grammy Award-winner Terence Blanchard at the Telluride Jazz Festival, and played at De IJsbreker in Amsterdam, the International Computer Music Conference, Gaudeamus International Interpreters' Competition, International Clarinet Association Conference, the Crested Butte Chamber Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival's Young Artist Series, the Modern Music Festival (M2F) and Pendulum New Music Series in Boulder, Colorado.
Oakes' recordings have been released on Bridge, CRI, Gothic, Karnatic Lab Records, and Naxos and broadcast on National Public Radio. His solo album, New Dialects, is now available on the Centaur Records label. Gregory Oakes is a Buffet Crampon USA Performing Artist.