York College, 441 Country Club Road, York, will welcome the Houston-based Apollo Chamber Players at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23, in DeMeester Recital Hall in Wolf Hall. The performance, made possible by a gift from the Boustead Family Foundation, is open to the public free of charge.
The Apollo Chamber Players is a group whose mission is to explore the cultural and folkloric influences in classical music. Winner of Chamber Music America's Residency Partnership award, the quartet has performed for sold-out audiences at Carnegie Hall twice in the past five years, and it is known as the first American chamber ensemble to record and perform in Cuba since the embargo relaxation. Apollo is featured frequently on American Public Media's nationally syndicated program "Performance Today."
Apollo is an advocate of contemporary music. In 2014, the organization launched a project to commission 20 new multicultural works by the end of the decade. Now approaching its conclusion, "20˙2020" features a roster of the world's leading composers, including Grammy winners Libby Larsen and Christopher Theofanidis. Apollo has collaborated with renowned ensembles and artists, including the Houston Ballet and Houston Chamber Choir, Grammy and Emmy winner and Academy Award contributor Vanessa Vo, James Dunham, Ismail Lumanovski, and Indian classical music star Chitravina N. Ravikiran.
Apollo also partners with schools, universities, centers for at-risk youths, refugee and veterans' service organizations, hospitals, airports, and public libraries to provide performances, educational programs, and entrepreneurship lectures that are aimed to impact a wider, underserved audience.
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