Classical Music Discoveries Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Classical Music Discoveries How can something as intimate as a musical moment shared between two people open up the door to endless possibilities? Discover the answer in ART FOR TWO, a collection of works [...]
‘Review Graveyard’ Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Review Graveyard Art for Two is a collection of works by composer Arthur Gottschalk, performed by Italian woodwind players Sauro Berti and Mario Ciaccio, accompanied by Naomi Fujiya on piano. The pieces were inspired by [...]
American Record Guide Review: ANCESTRAL VOICES
Originally Published By: The American Record Guide “Arthur Gottschalk's Imágenes de Cuba opens up into a re-writing of Peanut Vendor. Deliciously dissonant, Gottschalk's work is as colorful and vibrant as Cuba itself”
Arthur Gottschalk: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: JazzdaGama Arthur Gottschalk is one of American music’s great originals, and a rare example of a contemporary composer who has succeeded in writing music that is at once thoroughly modern but also shamelessly enjoyable. [...]
Midwest Record Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Midwest Record It took Allen Toussaint to make it clear to us that there's music in the streets, there's music everywhere. Gottschalk took this to heart in that he finds inspiration everywhere from forbidden [...]
Radio Airplay and Playlists
Oh, More or Less from ART FOR TWO played on WRUV radio Shalom from ART FOR TWO played on UMFM radio Imágenes de Cuba featured on Spotify's Clasical New Releases playlist
Peter Burwasser Review: ART FOR TWO
The opening work on this lively program tests the boundaries of musical categories, featuring a thoroughly jazzy language. But before I ferry this release over to Michael Ullman’s The Jazz Column, the work needs to be considered in several [...]
Getting to know the artists behind “Hard Boiled Quintets”
Originally Published By: la voce italiana On Saturday, March 23, world class musicians Rocco Parisi and the Axiom Quartet will come together at the ICCC to share the music of Wolfgang Mozart and Dr. Arthur Gottschalk. LVI: [...]
Gramophone Review: ANCESTRAL VOICES
Originally Published By: Gramophone The third instalment from the Houston-based Apollo Chamber Players’ project of commissioning and recording 20 new ‘folk music-inspired and multicultural works’ by the end of the decade introduces four excellent new string quartets [...]
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
Originally Published By: PARMA Recordings There’s something about walking into Carnegie Hall that makes you feel a bit awestruck. It’s an imposing building — taking up an entire city block in midtown Manhattan — that dominates everything around it. [...]
Classical Music Review: ANCESTRAL VOICES
Originally Published By: Classical Music Review For immediate release: October 9, 2019 – RMN Classical RMN Classical is excited to announce the release of a new album titled Modern Music for Piano 2. This album, the second of [...]
Classical Music Review: CHÉVRE
Originally Published By: Classical Music Review “Gottschalk's work draws on his many trips to Cuba, referencing various elements of modern Cuban culture as observed in his travels.”
Fast forward: making music in Cuba
Originally Published By: Sonograma Magazine I arrived in Havana on January 14, 2017. It was my fourth time visiting the country. While this trip was much like the previous ones (that is, filled morning to morning with [...]
Breaking Boundaries: Apollo Chamber Players in Cuba
Originally Published By: Arts + Culture Amid the hearty shouts of “Cuba Libre” punctuating the final exuberant moments of Arthur Gottschalk’s Imagénes de Cuba, Houston’s Apollo Chamber Players capped off their historic performance/recording tour in Cuba with [...]
Harmonizing Differences
Originally Published By: Infodad.com What the Apollo Chamber Players want to deliver on Navona’s Ancestral Voices CD is an overt blend of traditions as interpreted by four contemporary composers, all of them working in the folk/multicultural style that is [...]
Apollo Chamber Players Forge Ahead
Originally Published By: City Arts Last week, shortly after returning from a tour and recording session in Cuba and on their way to a performance at Carnegie Hall, the Houston-based Apollo Chamber Players came to town to [...]
