The Library of Congress Music Series in Washington, D.C., has seen a lot of traffic from IU School of Music during this 2004-2005 season.
 Pianist Menahem Pressler with the Beaux Arts Trio and Carmen Helena Téllez conducting Aguavá New Music Studio, performed at the historic Coolidge Hall on December 14 and March 16. Violinists Miriam Fried and Paul Biss—leading musicians from the Ravinia Steans Institute—will perform on March 30 at the LOC Concert Series.
Pianist Menahem Pressler is the remaining founding member of the legendary Beaux Arts Trio chamber ensemble, which currently includes violinist Daniel Hope (at right) and cellist Antonio Meneses (at left) . The program included a new work commissioned by the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress. The ensemble celebrates its 50 th anniversary this year and will grace IU School of Music stages once again as a featured ensemble in the 2006 IU Summer Music Festival. More information about these concerts will be posted soon.
 Carmen Helena Téllez led the Aguavá New Music Studio’s declaration of musical independence in a concert of Cuban and Cuban-influenced music by composers Aurelio de la Vega (b. Cuba, 1925), Tania León (b. Cuba, 1943), and IU composer Ricardo Lorenz (b. Venezuela, 1961). The Washington Post reviewed the performance as “Brilliant…immersive and thrilling.” Aguavá featured several IU alumni and doctoral candidates in their performance including flutist Alain Barker (at left), clarinetist Nicolas del Grazia, percussionists John Astaire and Joe Galvin, and singers Susan Swaney, Angelique Zuluaga, Paul Flight, Cary Boyce (center), and Robert Samels. The concert was staged and lighted by Lucia Patiño. A video and audio recording of the concert will be posted permanently in the Library of Congress' special website "Hear America Singing" featuring the best of American music. Prior to the concert, Professor Carmen Helena Téllez participated in a panel on Latin American music, chaired by Library of Congress Senior Concert Producer Norman Middleton.
 IU violinist Miriam Fried, violinist/violist Paul Biss, and an international quintet from Ireland, Holland, France, Israel, and the United States—participants in the Ravinia Festival professional program for young artists—will offer Brahms’ String Quintet in G Major, op. 111, and Dvorák’s Terzetto, op. 74, on March 30.
For more information about these concerts, go to: http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/concert/0405-05concerts.html.
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