| 词条 | Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston |
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The Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston is a classical chamber music ensemble and concert series. Founded in 1998 by Artistic Director Deborah Boldin, Chameleon immediately caught the attention of music lovers and critics in Boston. The very first concert in October 1998 was reviewed by Richard Buell of [https://www.bostonglobe.com/ The Boston Globe]: “...what should appear on the scene but another new outfit – its members eager and young, to be sure, but with nothing whatever to blush about as to technique, musical smarts, or knowing what goes with what on a program. In this concert the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston didn’t make a single wrong move.” In the ensuing years, Chameleon has distinguished itself as one of Boston’s leading chamber ensembles, praised for world-class performances as well as its innovative concert programming and artistic philosophy: integrating old and new repertoire into unexpected chamber music programs that demonstrate the connections between tradition and contemporary creation rather than their differences, tied together by distinctive thematic concepts. [https://www.bostonglobe.com/ The Boston Globe] hailed “planning a good chamber music program is a delicate art unto itself, and few in town have mastered it as persuasively.” By the end of its fifteenth anniversary season, Chameleon had produced 150 concerts featuring a staggering array of nearly 400 different works by 105 different composers. The artists of Chameleon are among the most highly respected and sought-after performers in the Boston area and beyond. Most of the members of the Ensemble are based in and around Boston, also performing in various orchestras and as chamber musicians and soloists. Chameleon also frequently invites guest performers from outside of Boston, including members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and soloists and chamber musicians with national and international reputations. [https://www.bostonglobe.com/ The Boston Globe] called them an “all-star lineup of chamber musicians,” and The Boston Phoenix hailed “A performance that was as tender as it was ferocious, as expansive as it was intimate, as mysterious as it was open-hearted...I doubt I’ll ever hear it played better.” The Ensemble was recognized nationally with 2009 and 2007 Chamber Music America / ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming. Other honors include a Koussevitzky Foundation award and an appointment as ensemble-in-residence for Northeastern University’s Fusion Arts Exchange, a summer program for international students sponsored by the US State Department. Chameleon’s subscription series, consisting of two performances each of five different programs, is held at First Church in Boston and the Goethe Institut Boston between late September and mid-May each concert season. In May and June of each year, Chameleon does an innovative and intensive educational outreach program with three schools in the Boston Public School system, culminating in concerts and an instrument petting zoo held in Forsyth Chapel at historic Forest Hills Cemetery. The same concert is presented as a free family concert at the Hyde Park Branch of the Boston Public Library. Chameleon works with composer, storyteller and educator Hans Indigo Spencer to design the program, and Mr. Spencer composes a new piece of music for each year’s program, designed to be interactive so that the students can have the experience of learning a piece of music that they can perform with the professional musicians. Chameleon infuses all of its programs with a public-spirited sensibility through Chameleons in the Community, an ongoing outreach effort to increase the accessibility of classical music and create connections between the arts and everyday life. Over the years, well over a thousand tickets have been donated to constituents of organizations such as the Pine Street Inn, the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership, and Project Step, and Chameleon dedicates one concert in every season as a benefit for a local public service charity. References
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