OBE News...

The Out of Bounds Ensemble has been awarded a grant-funded residency at Winthrop University for fall 2009. During their time at Winthrop the ensemble members will hold instrumental and composition master classes, read student works, conduct a music business seminar, and present a performance of new and established chamber music.

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Winthrop Residency Schedule: Sunday, September 13, 2009...
Barnes Recital Hall, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. - Workshop on instrumental and vocal extended techniques.
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Reading of student compositions.
5:00 - 5:30 p.m. - Music business seminar
7:30 p.m. - Concert featuring works by Crumb, Ives, and Schoenberg

The Out of Bounds Ensemble presented two concerts in the Charlotte area in April, 2009.

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The Out of Bounds Ensemble was recently featured on Central Piedmont Community College online TV program Charlotte Arts.

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(Courtesy Central Piedmont Community College Television).

About the Out of Bounds Ensemble...

The Out of Bounds Ensemble was founded in 2007 in order to bring new and established contemporary chamber music to a wider audience. Pianist and theorist Tomoko Deguchi, building on years of experience performing contemporary music, forged the ensemble by bringing together composers Ronald Keith Parks and Craig Bove, pianist and composer Leonard Mark Lewis, and conductor and tuba player Geoff Whitehead. Soon after becoming established in the Carolina region the Out of Bounds Ensemble was appointed as Ensemble in Residence at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC and Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC.

Since its inception the Out of Bounds Ensemble has been joined in concert by many eminent Charlotte, NC area musicians including flutist Amy Orsinger-Whitehead, clarinetist Reese Manceaux, cellist Nick Lampo, violinist Judy Meister, soprano Loraine Gorrell, Brass Act (Jon Thornton and Scott Bauer - trumpet, Julie Shrom - horn, Ken Davis - trombone, and David Mills - tuba), trumpeters Mark Dulin and David Hodges, French horn player Bill Tyler, trombonist Mark Richards, and tuba player Sarita J. Maxwell.

The mission of the Out of Bounds Ensemble is to present professional-quality performances of established, seminal works of the 20th and 21st centuries and to commission and perform new works by regional composers.

The Out of Bounds Ensemble is available for concerts and lecture-recitals, and makes regular appearances in the Carolinas and throughout the southeast region. For further information on upcoming and recent concerts see the upcoming and recent events listing or contact us through the 'book us' link.