The Borealis Wind Quintet, nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award in the Chamber Music Category, is acclaimed as one of America’s preeminent chamber ensembles. The highest musical integrity, irresistible energy and five-fold charisma distinguish Borealis in the chamber music field. Audiences love their exquisite programming that includes the finest of the classics, engaging commissioned works, opera arias and works for piano and winds. The Washington Post praised their “sensitive collaborations that have a sophisticated and cosmopolitan air.” Peter G. Davies of the New York Times described one concert as “a polished, elegantly turned performance…each work received lively, expert and musicianly treatment by this skilled and exceptionally talented chamber group.” Joseph Horowitz, also of the New York Times describes “lively communicative readings…the performance was a scintillating one.”

 

The Gila Valley Arts Council wishes to thank the many supporters, all of the individual and business Arts Council members and major contributors, Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold, Graham County Board of Supervisors, the United Way of Graham County, and the Graham County Community Foundation that make this all possible by their financial support. These performances are also supported in part by the Arizona Commission on the Arts with funding from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts.

      

 

last modified: October 19, 2011