About

The Fiati Five have been the ensemble-in-residence at the Chamber Music Campania festival in southern Italy for the past two years. We have given several performances across Italy and New York; our performances in the summer of 2015 will include Atlantic City, NJ, Atlanta, GA, and Sarasota, FL. Our members come from across the United States and hold a wide variety of advanced degrees and performing experiences.

A central component of our work with Chamber Music Campania has been the expansion of wind quintet repertoire, including collaborations with soprano Katie Dukes Walker, cellist Francesco Mastromatteo, and several composers-in-residence at Chamber Music Campania. We have premiered works by Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Carrie Magin, and Eric Nathan and we worked closely with Jennifer Jolley, Libero Mureddu, and Kyle Werner.

We are committed to new music, audience cultivation, and taking classical music out of traditional spaces in order to do so. Our concerts curate a cultural experience: they are audience-interactive, musically interesting, at least partially memorized, and typically pair music with food, art, or another familiar point of entry, rather than following the formal, traditional concert paradigm. Listeners should come away having heard something new, having heard something old in a new way, and feeling that classical music is accessible.

The Fiati Five are:

Alice Jones, flute
Zach Pulse, oboe
David Cook, clarinet
Mike Walker, horn
Christina Dioguardi, bassoon

Plus special guest Katie Dukes Walker, soprano

Our repertoire for the summer of 2015 includes works by Samuel Barber, David Maslanka, Giaochino Rossini, Giacomo Puccini, Jean-Phillipe Rameau, and Eric Nathan. We look forward to hearing from you!

Summer of 2015 availability:

New York City: June 26-29
Atlanta: July 2-5
Sarasota: July 6-26

Music

Summer of 2015:

Fiati Five

Paquito d'Rivera: Aires Tropicales
Irving Fine: Partita
August Klughardt: Quintet
David Maslanka: Quintet no. 3
Eric Nathan: Spires
Jean-Phillipe Rameau: Gavotte with Six Doubles
Giaochino Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Giuseppe Verdi: "Va pensiero" from Nabucco

With special guest Katie Dukes Walker, soprano

Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Eduardo di Capua: 'O sole mio!
George Gershwin: "Someone to Watch Over Me" from Oh, Kay!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Porgi amor" from The Marriage of Figaro
Giacomo Puccini: "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi
Giacomo Puccini: "Quando m'en vo" from La bohème

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