Meridian Arts Ensemble - Performances

Frank Zappa Discusses the Meridian Arts Ensemble

"...I would advise anybody who is in the vicinity of this group, the Meridian Arts Ensemble, if you see that they're playing in concert in your town, please go and see them. They're excellent. It's a brass quintet; they have wonderful intonation, excellent rhythm, and a good style to what they play. They play all different kinds of contemporary music, and they have decided to add some of my pieces to their repertoire, too. So, if you get a chance to see them someplace, you should check 'em out. They also have a CD out [Winning Artists Series] which is very impressive."

Frank Zappa, excerpted from a live interview on Alan Handelman's East Coast Live, on WRFX-FM Charlotte, NC, on June 6, 1993

Meridian Arts Ensemble has performed at a large number of diverse venues worldwide, including prestigious classical series such as Tanglewood and The Library of Congress, New York's legendary (and now sadly defunct) alternative music club CBGB’s, and the remote mountain town of Capulalpam in Oaxaca, Mexico. We are working on this page, and will eventually document every concert we have played since our founding in 1987.

2008

January 19            Coastal Concerts, Lewes, DL
February 24           Stanford Lively Arts, CA
July 8                   Austin Chamber Music Society, TX
September 12      Manhattan School of Music, NYC


2007

January 13             Middlebury College, VT
February 2             Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, PA
February 4           Manhattan School of Music, NYC
March 9                 East Carolina University, Greenville NC
April 2                 Cleveland State University
April 4           Kent State University, OH
July 22        Cooperstown Chamber Festival, NY
July 30 – August 1 Lieksa Brass Week, Finland
August 3 – 7       Oaxaca Instrumenta Verano, Mexico
September 14    Manhattan School of Music, NYC
October 8               Festival of New Trumpet, NYC
October 20          Festival Cervantino, Guanajuato Mexico
November 3            Romanian – American Music Festival,
   Timisoara, Romania

2006

March 10                Symphony Space, NYC
April 7                  East Carolina University, NC
June 3                    St. Luke’s Church, NYC
June 16                   East Carolina University, NC
August 8                Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
October 8         Manhattan School of Music, NYC
October 9         Symphony Space, NYC
October 17 – 19    SUNY Fredonia School of Music, Fredonia NY
October 24         Muzeikgebeouw, Amsterdam Netherlands
October 29   Fritz Philips Muziekcentrum, Eindhoven NL

2005

March 5             East Carolina University, Greenville NC
March 29          Arnhem, Netherlands
March 31          Utrecht, Netherlands
April 2          Amsterdam, Netherlands
April 3          Enschede, Netherlands
June 10 – 16      East Carolina University, Greenville NC
August 26                 Yamaha Artist Services Center, NYC
November 3            East Carolina University, Greenville NC
December 1          Princeton University, NJ

2004

January 18         Chamber Music America Conference, NYC
January 25         Merkin Hall, NYC
February 1         Mobile Chamber Music Society, AL
February 2             Pensacola Junior College, FL
February 14          Round Top Music Festival, TX
February 16          Hammond College, LA
February 18      Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA
February 27      University of Rhode Island
March 9          Merkin Hall, NYC
March 23          Lafayette College, Easton PA
March 28        Beacon, NY
April 24          Library of Congress, DC
August 10         Makor, NYC
August 12         Tanglewood Music Center, Fromm
                                           Opening Concert
September 25    East Carolina University, Greenville NC
October 28         Cleveland Institute of Music, OH
October 29       University at Buffalo, NY
November 13            Worn Chamber Concerts, San Francisco CA
November 14       FNAM, Sacramento CA
November 19       Arnhem, Netherlands
November 20    Eindhoven, Netherlands
November 22      Barle-Nassau, Netherlands

2003

January 18   Chamber Music America Conference, NYC
February 10      Merkin Hall, NYC
March 19      East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
July 21                     Chautauqua Festival, NY
August 29             Tonic, NYC
September 12      NHK, Japan (TV – NYC taping)
September 23       The Juilliard School (master class)
September 25       Merkin Hall, NYC
October 2         Havana, Cuba
October 27          UNC Chapel Hill, NC
October 28      North Carolina School Arts, NC
November 14        Den Bosch, Netherlands
November 16     Herwijnen, Netherlands
November 18        Tilburg, Netherlands
November 21        Arnhem, Netherlands
November 24        Eindhoven, Netherlands

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